reconcilement between the word and the faythfull beleevers for the mutuall love of wedlock and chastity and continencey in religion by an Emblem of an eternall comfort and a pleasant love song or Epithalamion most sweetly That as Mariage make-eth glad and mery hartes that they bestow their hartes and delightes and whole love one upon another so that the Church should have none other God but one And to this purpose hee handleth both partes of the Ephithalamion which sheweth to bee more glorious and more virtuous then the earth can bear yet occasioned by Salomons Match with Pharohs daughter And beginning with the Groom hee makeeth him the fayrest and best spokeen of all men becaus by his gracious cariage hee got worship and honour from all men and is blessed of God for ever And this is his Cincture and strength and virtue Ps. 111.145 that makeeth him like a Giant or a worthy Ps. 19.89 Hee makeeth him also a Knight that is mounted upon victorious Truthe and caried with meek Iustice with true humility to ride prosperously That insisting and insideing heerupon his Ministry and right hand may teach him terrible things and from hence to steek his Enimyes to the hart And with sharp and keen words subdue the people under him Lastly hee makeeth him a King that hath none but God for his Throne and rest and confidence for soundnes of Iudgement and defense of religion as Psalm 89. And his Rod of Iustice gets him a crown of rejoyceing and anoyntment above his fellowes from his very God that hee serveth The pretious matter hee had to write of His clothes are all perfumed with lovely cariage and sweet behaviour to make him delectable and amiable before the Queen and her women all in Gold and perles the lovelynes of the church for pureity of religion and cleernes of doctrine to delight him And now haveing runn through all the kindes of fansyes and bravery of the word of God of Christ the Law and the Bridegroom that can move love or affection to allure the Church to his society and familiarity and to woo them hee passeth to the other part of the Epithalamion of the Bride the Church how shee might possible stirr the love of Christ unto her And this is all by her inward service of him her allegiance and obedience to him to forsake father and mother and all the world for him to subject herself only unto him And bow unto him and follow him whither-so-ever hee goeth And this is the bewty of the Bride that winneth her Husband and this is the cariage that shall get her honour and presents and exaltation from the richest even her Humility Besides the Bride hath no outward glory nor pompe neither is the churches bravery in visibility or worldly Eminencey but is both secret and sacred and moste spirituall and inward to make it the more worthy the more pretious the more optative expetible and desireable so that as shee is inwardly moste glorious and rich so the bravery of the Church and riches of religion is only in the depth of the spirit and divine wisdom and secrecy of understanding moste maydenly chaste and holy Which being of a pure conversation shall bee reveled and brought unto Christ with a train of pure virgines and undefiled Saintes the Catholick Church which is holy by the mysteryes of godlynes And the better to affect him they shall com flowing to his court with all alacrity and cheerfulnes to pleas him The end of all is that in steed of Abraham Isaak and Iacob his fathers the principall men of religion by this affinity and union ther may bee propagated a stemm of princes out of their children they beeing becom one flesh to rule all nations to make his Name a famous memoriall in every generation for the people to worship for ever For his defense and deliverance And this is a great secret concerning Christ and the Church for the convoy of the Church to the service of God shewing their God and King and Defendour and Conductor As the Poet hath Hector and Andromache for the Generall and his host Construction Mem waters peoples and Nations and kingdoms c. Throne for kingdom Name for kingdom as in the Lords prayer By the repeating of the eternity of both This Throne is for ever c. And thy Name and fame I will make remembred by the people for ever and ever c. as Ps. 145. For the property of water thes wordes doubled the Queen and her women shall bee brought flowing and com unto the King c. and unto his closset c. He for the bravery of his presence the choisest presence Mem and He for Meh what for the definition being a good matter and his work of the King his mariage beeing the best for the Ioy therof And Mahah to linger mentioneth the expedition as swift c. flowing c. Exodus The Passover of the Queen to the King and their famous Issue for ever as before The Name of God and the Termn King is heer confounded as Ps. 95. 2. Kings 18.19 c. by definition the King is called a God as the poet called Augustus c. Elohim beeing taken vocative but in the greek it is doubtfull Heb. 1. as both vocative and nominative PSALM XLVI WHer God is present and people well advised ther wanteth no redy help in distress so the Church of God haveing allwayes the Ark and the doctrine therof called the river-chanels of the citty by them to instruct them fear nothing Though the rageing Hethen called the roreing sea set upon them and though the Kingdomes called the mountains shake with their proud invasion and many Kingdomes overthrowen by it and great alteration be in the world yet they assure themselves Ierusalem cannot be stirred becaus God their Ark and confidence is in it and will help them early before the Enimy be up beeing sure by the word the God of warr is with them and will releeve them That useth to make strange work in the word as Ps. 76. to cease warrs and make them hold their handes that hee himself onely may bee exalted A virgin shall conceive and bear a sonn and thou shalt call his Name Immanuel All the Churches conception is peace and the childe that is born is wonderfull for counsel and the prince of peace and hath all the government to himself as a God of valour and father of eternity And this is the God of Iacob that is all their Munition the God of hostes that is allwayes with them by their confidence in the wisdom and righteousnes of the Law And in all their distresses they call upon him as Immanuel and in all commotions for the God of Iacob the God of war and prince of peace their safegard and whole relye Beeing perswaded of present help from him becaus they see by the Scriptures what wonderfull debate hee hath quieted and the strife and contention hee hath ceassed and the peace that hee hath made
pitty and compassion for his long patience and great benignity kindenes for his goodnes and mercyes to and over all his works because his Kingdom and power and glory is eternall for susteining them that are falling and in decay and setting upright them that are declineing and giving all things their meat in due time and liberally and freely and bountifully satisfyeing all living creatures with his open handes For his justice in all his wayes and kindenes upon all his creatures of his Church for his neernes to them that call upon him faithfully by performing what soever they request and hearing them and saveing them and destroying all the wicked as Psal. 92. That therfor seeing this Kingdom is of this kinde of heavenly operation not of the world which is the seed of the word sowen in the hart of man to govern him hee now as in the conclusions of all the rest of the books exalteth greatly this God and King of his and blesseth his name and the calling upon him for ever and ever Which exaltation and hallowing of his Name is a new work after the petition is ended to finish all which shall last for ever as Psal. 111 for makeing him sundry wayes ripe in the word of God and cherishing him therwith for setting him in the doctrine that lasteth for ever and ever That ever generation from the beginning to the end might prais his workes and the power therof And that hee will esteem the glory of his worshipp and tell of his wonderfull acts by the mystery of the priesthood and that they may speak of and confess the reverendnes and the strength of all his worship as Psa. 92 and mighty terrors ps 90. Hee hath thus reckoned his magnificence and greatnes that all his works and holy creatures might confess him and bless him and tell out his glory ps 57. and speak of his power to make known to all the children of men his powers and most inestimable glory of his kingdom that all eyes do wait for for their food of wisdom and understanding which is never out of season ps 1. For which he would that his mouth should alwaies speak Gods prais and all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever Construction Quoph of Jaquaph to compass or circuit as 1. K. 7. Heerto hee bringeth the greatness of his mercy and huge extent of his kingdom and power and glory therof by his infinit working without all circuit or bounds to receive all that call Mem waters for a kingdom rule domination Is. 8. the king is Jehovah as ps 24. by the curious takeing of the letters of his name in a new spelling of Iehovah for Iod He and Vav his miracles glory and mercy the salvation is the Scriptures for his kingdom of drawing and allureing when men hear and read and are ruled by them which is the calling upon them and serching them drawing and governing Ier. 31. Is. 54. Io. 6. behold for the admirable glory and shineing of it in all his creatures as by all words of utterance and declaration Quamah to stand or endure for the eternity perfection and infinite stature of his name for his exaltation and therfor the defective letter Nun or N. is left out of the row of the A. B.C. also Quamah for a field of standing corn Mark the doubleing of the words in all Deuteronomy The confession is the continueing of words of declartion of his acts of eternall life and wonderfull kindenes and way and workes of salvation and exaltation of his name Mark the repetition PSALM CXLVI IN this psalme hee considereth that hee will make his confidence sure and then spend all his life in prais and psalmes unto his God as ps 92. Therfor takeing away all vanity of worldly confidence hee seeketh the heavenly happines therof that the God of Sion and the Church and his righteousnes is to reign for ever and to bee exalted and praised Therfor heer as ps 118. hee willeth not to trust in unchariritable princes or any human men which know not the high wisdom of God nor the depth of the mysterie therof determined for the glory and safety of the Church which have no salvation or help in them that by and by consume and turn to earth as soon as the breath is out of them and in the same day all their estimation and reputation and thoughts are at an end and perish hee now sheweth a more than fleshly revelation to them that love him that is the godly of a sound rock to build upon that spirituall things must be set to spirituall things our faith in spirituall charity becaus God is spirit and this a healing faith hee commendeth greatly the beleeff in God and his word the Creator maintainer and restorer of all things and the happines of him that reposeeth all his help and hope in him setting him forth by his heavenly properties Tell Iohn what things ye have seen a preserver of truth and keeper of faithfullnes for ever a Releever of the oppressed and a graunter of his request and a righter of their caus a feeder of them that hunger for him a resolver of all that be tyed in ignorance and doubt or haesitation a giver of sight and knowledge to the blinde and unlearned and a streighter and director of them that bee of a wrong and a crooked opinion or lame and declining in their understanding and a lover of them that be right and most charitablely preserveth strangers with hospitality and mainteineth parents for orphans and husbands for widdowes as ps 68. a perverter crosser of all the wayes works of wicked men as ps 1 that they may perpetually bee seen to perish and com to naught the everlasting God and his most charitable word of righteousnes the God of Sion that reigneth and helpeth for ever for all ages and throghout all generations And thus much concerning a right beleeff confidence as in the 15 psalmes of degâ—ees as uppon the end of the petition Construction Quoph to compass hee keepeth 2 Kin. 11 salvation for walles Is. 26. faith salveth thy faith hath made thee whole c. Mem waters Lam. 3. G. the working doctrine of the Kingdom of the king God Iehovah Eternall the works of righteousnes great works of God by the word doeing makeing for his mighty reforming of all sorts Is. 42. Mark the repetition for one part of the kingdom Vau a hook or crook faith hope and love for affection and appetite the distinction and opposition of his trust The tree letters Quomo are for the raiser and comforter Is. 26.42 the opposition is God and man the one a releever and a reformer of the godly of all sortes Am 7. and the other a decayer Is. 2. God is an euerlasting erecter and helper of his and an overthrower of the wicked Mark the repetition Deuteronomy The praising and blessing of the Eternall doth intend his miraculous Acts and works of eternity and
of the kingdom expressed and way of eternall life for a confession celebration or rehearsall PSALM CXLVII BEcause Gods prais is so desireable a thing and so comely and God so good and so pleasant for building Ierusalem as a nest for his Saints and a Synagogue of all the Church to salve all their dispersion cure their broken harâ—s bindeing up their grief keeping the number of all his starts ministers in the book of life and makeing a catalogue of them becaus their lord is of great power and of infinite understanding continueing the lowly makeing the weakest to last longest and humbling the wicked and proudest and strongest to the ground for covering the heavens of understanding with parabolicall clouds and makeing lerning to rain on the earth and grass and food for all creatures that call for it and hath his onely delight and pleasure in them that fear him and wait for his kindenes and not in mans desires or humane delights as ps 37.33 Because hee hath made their citty strong gates of salvation by the doctrine of the Prophets to keep it as ps 127 and blessed their children with the comfort of the word of God within it as ps 28.29 and peace and plenty of fine wheat flower in all her borders sending out his word and servants that most speedily runn through the whole land that when a winter season of frost and snow and hard clumpers of ice are cast out to possess the intractable hearts of men to correct the stubbornnes of man and to mollifie their hardnes and to make them more fruitfull and to add strength unto them for increas and multiplication of them hee by and by sendeth his spirit the south and warm winde of his word and thaweth them and they yeeld doctrine that no other nation should know his judgements which follow properly after the commandements as just payments for the breaches of them and a perfect recompens of all mens works giveing them waight for waight and measure for measure Therfor according to ps 92. hee willeth to prais God and chant out his prais and becaus his wisdom in this psalm is so infinitely set out as his speciall property heer hee ascribeth that unto him and willeth that they sing psalms to him with thanks on the harp ps 92 and that Ierusalem and Sion above all should commend and prais him for their so great benefit for the service of him ps 92. Furthermore haveing done with the preacher hee commeth now to the sermon which is righteosnes and this is the content of all the Scriptures and summ of them the word of God and sword of the spirit which hee handleth ps 141· Therfor in this psalm hee reckoneeth the books of the bible as Ovid reckoned the books of Virgill Am. Eleg. 15. then fo this work and authority and first the five books of the Law then the first Prophets conteining Iosuah Iudges Samuel and Kings the charets and horsmen of Israel and lastly the sixteen last Prophets the strong barrs of the citty gates of Ierusalem as ps 127. the garrison of peace in their borders and plentifull provision of chois blessings within it with sweet annotations for mention of them wherein hee sheweth that although God hath given the church the cup of his wrath to taste and sent them the hard weather of his swift judgement by the law of condemnation and makeing their hearts as cold as hard as a stone yet turning the winde about ther commeth a thaw of comfortable doctrine out of the Prophets to save them So that the whole Scriptures and scope of them and the iudgements and prescripts and comfort and salvation beeing onely known unto the Church all the world could not compare with them as ps 47. And heerin is the pleasantnes and sweetnes of the everlasting And this is a most seemly prais and that which best becommeth Preachers and that which they are bound unto Construction Quoph to compass or invireon by the building of Ierusalem by the walls borders and limits that contein them Lam. 3. g. seeing the termination of the word Ierusalem is peace another part of the kingdom Mark the doubling of the word kindes of compassing gathering bindeing and summing or telling c. Scatter Mem waters his saying word prescripts judgements sending drop waters rain thaweth snow frost ice and cold for properties Zain to hear or make to hear by the coactive sens and this is by words of declaration tell number declare all doubled His hearing is by contenting them that call and giveing them dayly food and sustenance of the word Miqra the Scripture and accepting of them Mat. 6.4 to them that hee delighteeth in and wait for his kindenes Mark the doubling and definition bread wheatenflower morsels c. according to Quemach the number of the next psalm which is flower or meal Deuteronomy The confession heer is in all kindes of words of prais and commendation of the eternall in three places of the psalm For his sundry acts of his way of eternall life in sundry manners by Ierusalem for his goodnes to them and especiall regard of them Mark the doubling PSALM CXLVIII IN this psalm because Gods words and commandments have formed them and made them that they are hee willeth that of right and by good reason they should all creatures in the world do his commandment and set forth his prais out of heaven in the highest as ps 92. and that hee willeth his angels and ministers of his church and all the army of them beeing the whole hoste of heaven and heavenly sanctuary to doo And out of the earth all the instruments and organs of his wrath ps 72.18 that are his executioners as in the Revelation that they prais him the great mountains and kingdoms of the world the most glorious trees and liveing creatures to prais and commend his creation and the installing of man to a second and a better wisdom of repentance and amendment of life and reformation and regeneraon of the Church of God that bringeth still their salvation and all sorts of people to doo the same Becaus his name onely is to bee exalted and his worship spread above and over all the earth and the heaven and all â—lements psal 68. for exalting the church For now is salvation in heaven by a cleer judgement and separation of the clean from the unclean and just to life and the unjust to damnation by his message of ill angels ps 90. the whirling and side-long wheeles of Gods angry judgement Is. 5. Ezek. 10. Like tempestuous whirlwindes from the creation Gen. 1. That all the starrs of the ministry should prais God out of the Scriptures in lofty stiles for their glorious creation and limitation from the Law even the angels that sail above the heavens in the waters therof as Abraham Isaac and Iacob and the tribes Moses and Aaron and the Levites and all low degreees of creaâ—ures either by sinne or destiny to prais him
submissive and the gentle well indued but the froward hamperd are kirbed Psal. 18. As the letters Lamed beth are first over the Psalme so are they the last signifying the hart Wher all crosses and comfort meet wher sinn harboureth wher grace entreth faith repentance worketh and amendment groweth confession and all plainenes issueth and remission commeth and all salvation and joy and happines and triumph followeth Genesis The Retoricall Accent Metheg a bridle is used compared to the Law to check the froward and to pardon the penitent the happy estate of remission to the refreiners the great grace of continence as Metheg is to the word for sweetnes and especially for distance and Gaja for roaring and crying as the prince of Accents Is. 55. Ps. 22. All language is doltish and senseles without the Melody of time and quantity in syllabes and pointes and stops in Oration according to all degrees of Declination in the sentence Ther is no trespass but against righteousnes the virtue of the Eternall and ther is no forgevines but from the God therof nor happynes nor joy but to trust in him and indevour it PSALME XXXIII NOw hee willeth all the just to triumph royally for the certainty and effect of Gods word which hee fully-ly describe-eth the happines of the Nation that are the Eternalls inheritance And for that in all the Scriptures called the heavens and his dwelling seat from whence hee hath his prospect which are formed to the hartes of all men no salvation is found to haue been by great Armys of Kings or strength of men and horses as Psal. 147. but by the vigilancey and care of the Eternall in his Law called his Eye to deliver and releeve them that fear him and because their Soul waiteth upon the Eternall whom they make their sole defence and delight and trust in him hee craveeth the like mercy upon the whole Church as their hope is in him Now seeing the counsell of Gods word passeth the counsell and all conceipt of the heathen for creating and reforming of mankinde and bringing them to knowledge that they may bee strong in fayth and of a sound hope unto salvation and that instruction is a new Creation hee willeth a sabath of praise and sanctification to bee solemnized as Psal. 92. by the just for the godlynes of them and praise of his maker For salvation is not by strength but by fayth as appeereth in the Lordes battailes by patience the Armour of the saintes Gods holy Oracle and mercy seat considereth all men From hence was Moses admonished Num. 7. by the brest plate of Iudgement the ingraven form of Godhead and wisedom Exod. 28.39 Construction Lamed leerning shewing the instruction promissed Ps. 32. The preservation of the Saintes and beleevers Levit. 8. shewing judgement justice mercey and truthe to be the definition of the word of God Ioh. 1. Math. 23. that yee may know what it is and this is a lerning This Psalme belongeth to the former by repeating the wordes therof and the mystery in the prospect of the Eternal doubled for the preest and deeps in treasures and counsell and cogitation for the brest plate of judgement imbrodered The Efficacy and power of the word of God the eternity of the light the advisement discretion therof the brest plate and the vanity of humane lerning What reverence it asketh what fear of offending how precious the observing and how painfull the offending is Fear yee the Eternall c. Ghimel hee rewardeth according to all mens workes how sure it cometh how beneficiall to the elect the providence to thē that fear God for the best understanding Ther is no safety by multitude fortitude nor faculty but all grace and pardon and forgivenes help and protection is by fayth and patience The fear of God is the observing of the commandements which is his word and the makeing conscience of transgression therof seeing all that is don is for fear or love and this is finall and a principall lerning as the End of the commandement is love c. 1. Tim. 1. The Scriptures are an Eternall Oracle of counsell and advise they have both Vrim Thummim in them light of knowledge and perfection of life The tree of knowledge and of cariage that is taught of God Gen. 3. Io. 6. 1. Thess. 5. and this is that which the preest is to bear upon his hart and to be indued with all to shew that the kingdom of God standeth in suffering and not in pomp Genesis Metheg a bridle so is the word of God a rule to hold us in and direct us it is full of regularity right and strait and true as the world it self in his cours the honour of upright mē For Metheg Jasher or Munnah Metheg turned to Munnah to serve Zakeph caton the grammaticall Acent Metheg gaja the accutest and loudest musick Accent Other propertyes of the rule bee expressed by the words counsel Actions by faith and patience by the waiting and trustinge by refreining absteining from ill restraining the minde And this is a moderation above all kingdom or worldly dominion of hors or man whatsoever and governeth all things PSALM XXXIV FOr Gods mercyes upon him giving him that strength of beleeff hee resolveth to praise him and bless him allwayes and with all his might and allureeth a whole congregation to the sanctifying of him for the releeff of his distressed case by his great goodnes and mercyes in guarding him by the spirit of his word Therfor hee will now let them know the use and benefit of Gods service and fear that is that it will make men like giants for countenance and continuāce and state of Eternity Psal. 112. And for stature like goodly Cedars and as it is the way to long life by description so what this service and fear is by definition Psal. 92. and how it is accomplished to speak plainly and truely without any hypocrisy or dissimulation to doe good and not evill following the way of peace And in this way the Lord will look upon them and hear them allwayes and deliver them out of all evills Bee the woes of the just never so many yet hee will save him whole from falling into temptation when the wicked by som ill shall be utterly desolate wasted and slaine And this is expressed farther by a mystery between P and P in the A B C rew shewing that the afflictions of the church shall have joyes sevenfold after captivity of 70. at 490 yeers end as in two Reshes and Tsade in the Vers Resh wher hee sheweth eternall comfort to the just by Gods favours and the utter condemnation of the wicked by Gods angry lookes upon thē out of his word And this behaviour David accounteth to availe much to the strengthening of his faith to waite for all promiss of this life and that to com And thus much for the upright childe of the Church begotten by much misery and affliction
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
judgements of God upon Israel though long euen seventy sevenfold Gods justice cuts the band of wrong and sets them at libertie and releaseth them out of the hands of Satan their captivity sore distress Caph bowing or stooping is the plowing upon their backs and oppressing of them by so long ridges upon them there is a ridge of furrows and a ridge of a house or hous top for a back as they torment one kinde that the other may fail and they may turn the back Caph a hand also for holding and griping c. oppression is rewarded with improsperitie as the wicked keep down the Church so they accursed for want of maintenance do fade Teth to decline and bow also for the soil where the tillage is Mark the repetition of the words Hee is still in the story of Abraham hee will curs them that curs him c. Gen. 12. Ps. 80. Deuteronomy Hee observeth the frequent and sore adversity of Israel from a childe yet God still mainteined them and cut off their enimies therefore they should justly confess him They that hate the church shall be accursed PSALM CXXX THis is the way unto Abrahams bosom this way men know Abraham and keep him company in the kingdom of God prepareing for grace and mercy and not for justice and judgement Ps 143. The Church weighing their iniquity and their suffering they finde their afflictions nothing to their deserts And weighing their afflictions with the glory that they look for they finde their crosses short of it and not to be accounted worthy of such an eternall weight as is promised to the children of God by their adoption which live in admiration of all spirituall glory and not of temporall things which by suffering are made heirs and com unto the kingdom of God and so rare and so high a calling and freedom from corrupt slavery of sinn For this cause is every creature of God brought under hope and waiteth continually to see their day of redemption and considering their vanity with unexpressible fervency grone for it and the spirit that knoweth their minde helpeth them By which hope and long waiting in as much as it is with all stedfastnes as Ps. 40. they get their degree in the kingdome of God and are saved with much rejoycing and continuall prayer never to be ashamed of This hope commeth by patience and comfott of the scriptures becaus all thes afflictions happen to him for love to the word and observing Gods commandements Ps. 119. Z. Sh Which hope is laid up for them in heaven to be fullfilled with all knowledge and spirituall understanding and the mystery of God by the grace of God And heerof have you for example Noah Daniel and Iob their blessed end This hope is for things not to bee seen all things working for the best thus their degree to bee predestinated and called and chosen and justified and glorified and saved Therfor no tribulation nor no persecution nor famine nor nakednes nor perill nor sword nor any other adversity or prosperitie loss or preferment present or future high or low or any thing els in the world can cut off their waiting for this glory and this kingdom but they shew themselves approved in all things and tryed men in all crosses of the world which are the very Accents of holines And for this is their uncessant calling upon God in their deep distresses not to regard their sinnes and iniquities but seeing he was so reverend for pardon and forgivenes and was so kinde and so full of redemption which is the hope of Gods calling and that he would hear him and set Israel in the right way forgive him and redeem him and this with an exceeding hope more then that of the watchmen for their râ—st Construction Quoph to compas iniquities Ps. 49. Deeps Ion. 2. Ps. 69. where ther is no standing so all are cast by iniquities which have hold of them Lamed learning is waiting and attending and contending redemption and forgivenes and releas of captivity and bondage of the divell and all their enimies Is. 64. Ier. 33.31 Prov. 16. Neh. 9. Hos. 14. both the letters make Quol a voice the Lords attention and revealing of his word releaseth and redeemeth being full of pardon and grace Quol is taken also for word which is the promised forgivenes and redemption from trâ—spass This belongeth to Rulers and therfor Lord is doubled Quol also is thunder which is terrible judgement out of the word that no man is able to abide it Qual is gentle light and easy as is forgivenes Mark well the repetition of all the termns and reckoning of the kindes of voices waitings and forgivenes c. His waiting is to be set once free of his crosses and his incumbrances which he calls iniquities by proper grace of the Eternall Like a servants waiting for his maisters comming Mat. 24. Deuteronomy It is wrought upon the story of Iacobs wrestling Gen. 21.32 Hos. 12. and waiting and earnest request is a kinde of wrestling for grace As Iacob wrestled so Israel must wait Mark the doubling of Israel and repeating of Lord so oft to signifie might and power of prevailing uppon El in Isra-el the mighty And this reciteth a wonderfull grace and blessing of God and kindenes to his people PSALM CXXXI BLessed are the poor in spirit the lowly and meek the humble and quiet minded men and such as suffer persecution for righteousness for they shall raign and excell in heavenly gifts and also inherit the earth Ps. 37. And be called the children of God O Zion behold thy king commeth meekly sitting uppon an ass By meeknes and gentlenes every thought and imagination against God and every high thing is cast down and captiveed and subdued and made nothing worth for all the kingdome of God is in suffering and willing and gentle submission and obedience by which by haveing themselves in command they overcome and cast down invincible holds A little contenteth these men and all things are bestowed upon them they seek the celestiall kingdome and riches of godlines and want nothing that is good so as when they suffer it is in hope and also in meeknes not grudgeing nor resisting nor murmuring therfor he subdueth his mind from high conceits and far and forrein hopes and great and secret things to the plain and easy things of the law and commandments neer at hand and hard by him In this subjection he hath his minde by the Law that meekly waiteth on him like a wainling so that the Law and hee are inseparable and his minde alwayes a companion with God by haveing his word alwayes in his mouth and in his heart and thus he would have Israel wait upon God for ever Construction Quoph to compass is heer the compassing of the heart the wilde affection of the minde Eccl. 7. Is. 10. Ps. 101. Pro. 6. known by thes tokens the lust of the flesh and of the eyes and pride of life all worldly
aspireing and ambitious appetite 1 Ioh. 2. not fit for a scholler Lamed and Alâ—ph for learning and instruction they make Lo not so that hee is no such but humble and a reformed man meek and docible fit to attend doctrine and the pleasure and kindenes of God He is not carried away with pride and worldly pleasure but is content to be taught as a childe his A. B Ce. Is. 28. and so hee sheweth by a double mention of the first letters of the rew And is contented with the things revealed Deut. 29. And so hee would have Israel to bee perpetually All the three letters make Quala to dis-esteem as hee was vile in his own eyes Mark these words repeated soul waiting not c. and words varyed high lofty great hard opposed to tame and plain and wained c. as Aspireing to contentment Deuteronomy All waiting of Israel is for grace and kindenes and performance of promiss to such as bee fitt and adopted and chosen c. while Israel serveth c. PSALM CXXXII THer is a majesty of Godlines ther is a heavenly countenance of pure religion but zeal and devotion make the dignity therof that a man may be found approoved and in all pointes perfect and holy before God Which is heeâ— shewed by Davids vow and the Lords considering both that is the place that David so devourly sought for and found the Lord so much delighted and affected And becaus their affections so met and their harts so well agreed and because God promissed to David all benefit of salvation from Sion by the Priesthood and aflowershing and a lerned and a dureing estate of the Kingdom yf hee kept his covenant and that hee will victuall the citty well with the word of God Psal. 81. and confound his enimyes therwith till they blush and retire therat hee prayeth God now to take his rest upon his holy hill and by the strength of his Law Ps. 99. the Ark of judgement and right to send it that the Priests may preach righteousnes Ps. 40. and the people doo all worship and the queristers sing out aloud holy holy holy and highly sanctifye the God of Sabboth with all habit and behaviour of holynes That the anointed may never remove or turn back again but seek unto their patience and faith and love and spirituall knowledge provide for all their wants that nothing may bee wanting but that they may overcom in their triall and bee refreshed in the paradise of God bee made Kings and weare the crown of Eternall life and be fed with the scriptures and to receive holy names in the book of life never to be blotted And reign over nations bee like everlasting pillers in the temple with new names of their new creation graven upon them sit in the throne of Godlynes blessed with all dignity and honour by thes keyes of knowledge that open all undeniable truthe shut the mouthes of fashood that bindeeth the divill and Satan hand and foot in his arguments and casteâ—h him into utter darknes and giveeth cleer light to them that sit in darknes and that hee would dissolve the chains of ignorance of them that walk in absurdity and redeem them and save them Construction Quoph to compass or inviron by his affliction and his vow of absteining from rest and fasting from so great an appetite to finde an entertainment and contentment for the great Pastor of Israel Lev. 23. Is. 58. also clothing or indueing Iob 19. Is. 61. Lamed doctrine from Beth-lehem and Sion wher the poor have their fill of bread Ier. 50. of righteousnes salvation perpetually preached and praises Beth a hous dwelling habitation place of rest footstool c see the doubling of the words and the synonimyes throughout appetite affliction and satisfaction is all Deut. 12. Hee reckoneth heer all the kindes of rests that can bee imagined because it is Gods rest and that by doubling the word Tabernacle hous bed sleep dwelling habitation footstool right doctrine a joyfull Ministry their Anoynted throne meat and bred of salvation a flowrishing crown their anoynted and shame to their Enimyes neither is hee unmindefull of the Quiescents grammaticall as in the word Jvva hee desired doubled Deuteronomy Sion is the place hee hath chosen to be served and glorifyed in Deut. 2. for a perpetuall countenance to his elect and a shame to their foes yf they observe his word and keep his covenant the life therof shall bee their life for ever Deut. 32. and they shall not bee stirred PSALM CXXXIII THe Church beeing setled in a quiet conscience and haveing a peacable Kingdom within them hee now commeth to the admiration of the goodnes and the benefit the glory and the sweetnes of it Wher hee makeeth the subjects all of one degree wher ther is no difference between the servant and the sonne male and female servant and servant far or neer ther beeing one maister and father and reconcileer unto all for they are both by grace and both by adoption nor between Iew and gentile bond or free for ther is a redemption from bondage and a freedom from servitude to which as well they in the house as out of the hous are predestinated â—o becom all alike the children of God beeing led by the spirit of God And thus Christ was before Abraham and thus Abraham rejoyced to see his dayes by haveing the same Kingdom and religion in his bosom So that ther is no priority or preheminence heer to take place and as they are all children and sonnes of God by faith so they are all heires and all part-takeers of the Kingdom and blessednes therof as they have been part-takeers of the suffering belonging to it And therfor are they called bretheren for all have one and the same birth parentage haveing the same conceites dooing the same workes leading the same lives minde the same thinges knit together all in one minde beeing of the same study affection the same indevour the same subjection and the same protestation and this in the same service of God the father and maister in all holynes and rightheousnes when all their hartes agree in all things and God with them how admirable indeâ—d may they say is their dwelling together It yeeldes a sweet prospect for how sweet are the sermons of righteousnes that flow over the Priests lips and drop down his beard and the gift of grace and the indument of them that runneth down all the coat of Levi from highe to low even to the skirts and the doctrine that falleth upon them as the dew upon the grass Theâ— is no ointment so sweet and good nor rain so pleasant as thes savery showers of heavenly understanding and spirituall blessings and everlasting life when as from hill to hill one hart lendeth another grace and knowledge and peace joy eternall in a quiet minde Construction Quoph to compass so the band of fraternity Za. 11. and vnity of religion Lamed the
God wil still lead him in plain ground and by this meanes bring him out of all distress and destroy his Enimyes and for his names sake revive him and that hee would graunt him this kindenes with speed not to hide his face and the understanding of his law from him and confound him This power is such as Christ gave to his Disciples over unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all disseases that is to purge and rid men of all ill conversation of life by their doctrine speaking by the spirit of the father the word and addressing them to the keeping of the commandements which is the power of the Kingdom and government here prayed for Yf I cast out divills by the spirit of God then is the Kingdom of God com unto you Construction Quoph to compass by the words distress and torment and loveing kindenes and supplication c. Mem waters for doctrine teach mee lead mee revive mee let mee hear let mee know hide not thy face hear consider meditate remember talk c. For an Enimy pursue or flood or persecution Ghimel a reward loving kindenes servant Psal. 62. Hee chalengeth much becaus of his service of him his instruction to him and destruction to his Enimyes and heerunto is Enimy opposeed Mark all his works how they witnes nothing but desolation body and minde God must testify by his grace and favour to him in his deliverance Mark all the repetitions Eternall hear righteousnes consider servant liveing Enimy soul ground spirit dooing handes unto thee distress c. Hee prayeth God to cut off his working by his way of righteousnes opposed to falshood Causes why upon Ghimel to reward heare or answer twenty six according to the letters of Iehovah Deuteronomy Hee sheweth himself to bee a sound profession before God and diligent in all the imployment of godlynes and prayeth for the fruit and testimony of the way of godlynes and the liveing way and everlasting life by finding the mercyes favour of God upon him by his instruction as mens works witnes of them Ioh. 5.8.10 and this for a confession also to cross fals testimony PSALM CXLIV BEcaus his servants life and his hous is so greedily coveted hee prayeth God to take it to hart and with a furious judgement to descend to deliver him from thes uncircumcised tonges and handes of the seperate ones and aliens from his glory or welth called great waters That according to Psal. 92. hee may set the ten stringed violl to work with a new song a song of judgement and grace as Psal. 101. by saveing of Kings by his servant from the hurtfull sword according to his precept thou shall not covet his servant c. that seeing the commandements bee out hee may beginn with the Petaroth of judgements laws and statutes of condemnation and justification the Vrim and Thummim or the two hills and brefts of the Priests That so great a glory of Israel and the Church should not be extinguished That all estates might have their full utility plenty and ripenes that their sonns and daughters may bee safe without any ravenous or untimely covet or stealth to grow up wel educateed and neatly and gloriously facioned and edifyed in their youth in the fear of God And this for his man-servant and his maid servant becâ—us Gods servants are his Children That their cup-bord may never bee empty and that their sheep may bee infinit many increased in their streets the ox and the ass with their dayly burdens of wealth and store without any freebooting or robbery or covetous filching or wrangling or violent stealing or caus of out cry among them This hee counteth a moste glorious and happy estate of all with whom it thus fares and whos God and neighbour the everlasting is against whom ther is no prevailing and when the childe and hous-hold servants of God doo flowrish and are well replenished like Temples of holynes So as men are commanded to doo good especially to them of the hous-hold of faith so heer the strictest forbidding of Covet is that the Godly may injoy their quiet and their labours as Ps. 128. whithout deprivation or disturbance that God would bow the heavens and decline the Scriptures and touch the mountaines and Kingdomes and nations therwith that they may smoke again with the condemnation and firey judgement of them And that hee would blast them and dispers them and with terrible arrowes of his lightning destroy the Churches Enimyes And deliver his servantes from them Becaus all means of deliverance and way of salvation is his to rely on the shield of faith That hee takeeth notice of the Church and Ark of Noah under the person of Adam whos dayes are 930. And keepeth such computation of it as in the word Tsel 930 a shadow moste like to vanity and this agreeth with the posterity of the just in the termn Shalom 930 yeers Psal. 37. This Psalme keepeth the square of the Church the length and bredth to bee one Ezech. 41. Apoc. 7. Construction Quoph to compass or inviron is heer the great waters of falshood and injury of strangers that are opposit to all vicinity and good society Ps. 18.22 Ioh. 2. Also by all parts of his fortification defense and safety and Gods mercy about him Mem waters his heavens or waters above the firmament lightning Gods Arrows Zach. 9. Gods handes and messages and judgements Kings montaines Mem finall is 600. and that number is in the letters Shequer falshood or wrong Waters for people abundance or wealthy estate warr or doctrine of deliverance Daleth a door Doors of heaven Ps. 78. By breaking in running out streats without doores c. Math. 6. Ioh. 10. The effect of all is condemnation opposed to felicity how voyd of damage and hurt all neighbour hood should bee ps 15. And how improper improsperous all covet is but God only Mark all the repetition blessed happy handes fingers warr battail people man heavens highthes waters lightnings arrows handes scatter Kings mountains send rid or open deliver falshood wrong Alians mouth c. sing song Psalm salvation and hurtfull one in respect of the other sonnes buttersses buttryes Zach. 9. meat thousands cattell with other relations Deuteronomy Hee maketh heer happynes the eternity which only consisteth in relyeing in God That saveth him that hee can not bee hurt nor suffer any depriveing by foreiners at all Hee reckoneth up Gods safegard and his gracees to him for a confession and sings his deliverance The fathers before the flood their long lives desolation of the Church quite overwhelmed with the waters of warr as Dan. 9. strangeers and falshood beast Apoc. 13. PSALM CXLV TO sum up the Lords prayer and petition which holdeth out after the commandements in one word which is the Kingdom of heaven and power and glory therof Hee sheweth becaus the greatnes of God far passeth all magnificence and his estimablenes far beyond all examination Ps. 50. For his
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
in despight of all preparation that hee onely may bee conqueror and stand the last man upon the earth as Redeemer and bee exalted for ever For his dwelling allwayes among them and his watchfullnes over them and his early riseing to defend them by the power of his word And for this cause they will haue no other Gods but him the God of hostes the God of Iacob the right God of their Salvation upon whom they still presume and are stout and undaunted for ever Construction Mem waters swelling and roreing and troubled waters for Seas the rageing of the Nations and Kingdomes and for Warr any distres and desolations by warr as Da 9. secondly the quiet waters of life in the temple and doctrine of the word to save which they call the God of warr for martiall discipline that is still on their side and redy to help them and voweth to prevaile over all the other kindes of waters Vav a hook or crook for the copulative The church is not pulled back with fear or cowardlynes but affixed as God with us c. The two letters make the Incliticque Mo Ps. 2. alluded unto by the Churches Relyeing and help affixed Mark the repetition Exodus This resembles altogether the passing the red-sea both for phrase and effect the one water working upon the other The word melted the hartes of them it runs through the battail and dauntes the Army And maketh way through the Enimy and tameth the seas by the presence therof the High for Moses authority The Namâ— is Iacobs God the God of warr the best discipline and Munition about them Mark the repetition The God of Hostes c and mountaines and kingdoms and waters and nations compared c. For a kinde of Passover or escape PSALM XLVII THe Eternall being soveraigne King and Defender of all the earth having conquered diverse Nations giues Iacob the best inheritance because he loved him and sitting in his holy Throne the Scriptures of all people in the world hee preferreth the Iewes the people of Abrahams God that is them of the faith and righteousnesse of Abraham and that of the law Therefore the Corites invent for the church to sing a plaudite and triumph to their king with all shrilnes alacrity for that their God raigneth and that for their Iustification The second Psalme giveth warning to all the world to subiect themselues to the Promiss and content themselues with obedience therunto and reverently and willingly abide it and not to resist the hope of the faithfull for feare of destruction Neither was the law of Moses made to resist the faith of Abraham or against the promiss but to describe the righteousnesse of Abraham and set out the tree of a godly life whose leaues never fall to the ground as Psalme 1 but all his words are with judgement as Psal. 112. And so is the law the way to grace and hindereth not the promiss and Moses and the Prophets to Abrahams bosom Now the Sun-beames of the promiss psal 2. in this Psalme shine vpon the walles of Sion both in the same words and matter For God haueing subdued the Nations and giuen Iacob a proud Inheritance that hee hath prevailed with great shouting both high and terrible and is inthronized in his law as a mightie King and defendour of all the earth for this great defence of the Church and their deliverance and their setting of them now at their rest They will all Nations to triumph and sing to their God and extoll their King and praise his wisedome and to haue no other God because this their God the God of Abrahams people haue been best defended of all the people of the world and hee hath heere performed his promiss Gen. 15. And thus the childe of righteousnesse receaueth his blessing psal 2. and anoyntment aboue his fellowes as psal 45. Now the reason of inverting the words Abraham Isack and Iacob in the three last Psalmes is that hee may with Abraham conclude the promisse and fall againe to the storie And this also is holy and most mysticall but vsuall As Thummim before Vrim Ps. 26.27 Sarah before Abraham psal 111.112 and the diverse transpositions and interruptions altering and maiming of the order of the A B C Psalmes for godly mysteryes Construction Mem waters people and Nations Inheritance the pride of Iacob c. Gods holy throne is the Sciptures which is also waters yf all the Nations in the world were gathered together like the water Gen. 1. yet becaus hee reigneth over all in the scriptures his people are cheeff for the preeminence of discipline as the waters aboue the firmament have domination over the waters beneath So hee sitteth upon the water and ruleth â—he waters Ps. 29. by subdueing all and takeing his choise For this upon the letter Zain to hear the loudest and moste triumphing noise and voices for the hearing and sweetest chaunting and psalming is comanded for the excellencey of his Majesty by the way of waters also Psalm 93 96. by a like metaphore of clapping c Exodus The God of Abraham one other of the Names of Moses authority and commission is described Exo. 3. From Gen. 14. by the terme Eljon High c. Maggen Defens words from that text Ther is no higher thing then raigning and power and Dominion And this for beeing above all and excelling all hee is to be honoured above all and solemnized as by the doubled wordes and phrases Sing psalmes c. so is hee over all and passeth all and his kingdom is for a kinde of passover and promotion PSALM XLVIII FOr the greatnes of the majesty of God and the glory of Sion the wonder of the world the Enimyes that combineed against Ierusalem were astonyed and trembled for fear This was Edom Moab and Amon against Iehoshaphat King of Iudah Now becaus they know that their Gods Righteousnes Iudgement and dayly kindenes for their service of him dwelling in their towers and Temple is their Defens whose Name and Prais is over all the world the Chorites sing in Procession his Iudgements Ps. 97. goeing round about the citty to consider her strength â—nd glory to record it and tell it to their children that they may keep it in minde for ever in memory of their deliverance and serve him As all bodyes live by the hart so the Law and body of Moses is not without affection and devotion and a liueing and a gratious soul within it for salvation and recovery of Mankinde after sinn and redemption after his fall And this is by a righteous government called the Kingdom of God which was still their conductor and defendour and the cloud over the mercy seat that was the priests warrant for sacrifice and atonement so highly commended in the last Psalme For the wonderfull grace and blessing of inheritance bestowed upon them in the promiss which was covered with a vail as the vaile lay over their hartes and understanding when they read it For as the
Law of Moses is to trick out and express the righteousnes of Abraham it must not forget his faith nor his love nor his bountifullnes and giftes of the minde that last for ever Iudgement fidelity and mercy the weighty matters as Psal. 112. but in one Ceremony or other precept or complement the whole man must be thought upon as well for grace and adoption as for judgement and condemnation as Ps. 101. seeing life is promissed to the observers And this part of the Law is that which Christ in the new Testament so much preferreth as uprightnes and cleernes of the inner man which is the absolute holynes and perfection of godlynes the way to grace which hee requireth Wherby a man seemeth to bee divided against himself the flesh against the spirit grace becommeth opposit to workes as the Apostle sheweth by division of the Law And this is Christes fullfilling of the Law and baptisme of the holy Ghost that angered the Iewes and sett all the world on fire beeing beyond the comun understanding In this Psalme hee cometh to the kingdom and citty of their great king and defendour their God of righteousnes in the last Psalme this is Ierusalem their university mount Sion his holy hill the school of all godlynes and virtue and of the Law of God The Law shall com forth of Sion and the word of God out of Ierusalem c. Now as all types of holynes were to bee moste glorious for worship and majesty as Psal. 45.145.111 So the Iewes for fame of their religion would have the place like the tabernacle to excell So that all the world might take delight in the structure and order of the temple and Synagogue of Ierusalem this theatre and oracle of the Law and stage wher the word is acted more then the Queen of the South took in the sitting of Salomons servantes Wher two or three are gathered togeter in my name ther am I in the midst of them so experience hath taught them and assureth the Church that Gods love is allwayes in his Temple where his service is and never away from them that fear him And shewing first the greatnes of God in this place for his dayly worship and his fame his name calling upon him their munition his presence and releeff upon their Batlementes Psal. 56. by confounding their enimyes his kindenes in his temple which is better then life as Ps. 63. his fame praise over all the world and because hee doth nothing but Iustice with his right hand and scepter of his lerned ministry that breaketh all the heathen in peeces as Ps. 2. that Sion and all Iudah may be glad of his judgements they would not have this place ever forgotten For that this is the very God their only God that hath saved them from death And therfor likewise they will haue no other God but him for ever As in the former Psalmes according to the Tabernacle Exod. 36. wherin the love of God was dayly resident Construction Mem waters for the Citty and Godly policy therof the habitation of Godlynes and holynes Is. 33.48 of kindenes and Iustice and Iudgement the waters of the Law The letter Cheth to break or terrify by the ship-wrack and astonishment of the Enimy Macha applauding Zach. 12. as of the Citty and of the townes of Iudah Or Machah for abolishing as of the Enimy Ps. 9. in the contrary by Sapper to register or tell or write up for Is. 33. to book and not to blot out Marck the repetition and resounding of the termes Exodus Heer is the dwelling of the great God and righteous King the King of Salem and Sion Ps. 76. heer is the place of blessing heer hence righteousnes doth flow and salvation is all about it and God doth lead men from death as a kinde of passover For another Name of God The God of Shem Gen. 9. of renowm and fame foâ— Iustice even Melchisedeq an other of Gods Ministers Sacrificer of the most high God Gen. 14. Heeris the Altar of God and heer is the Priesthood and place of service and sacrifice which Israel in Aegypt so much desired Exo. 7.8.9 according to the promiss to return to and to make mery at and the Name of the Citty is Ther is the Eternall Ezech. 48. as the Name Iehovah the Eternall is Righteousnes PSALM XLIX THe wisdom and understanding of this Prable which hee would have all the world to know is this The vanity of riches to be trusted in and of the Owners their foolish wayes that glory in them and their disappointments that keep not their honour but dye like beastes and consume in the pit like rotten sheep and their wealth commeth they know not to whom to make mery withall while death and the grave get dominion over them And the comfort of the Poore in a hard time in famine or other adversity or perplexity the crossnes of his life called the iniquity of his heeles That when as the Richeman that likeed this life and the worship belonging to it shall dye without riches or glory to descend with him the Poor-man shall bee redeemed from his misery and bee accepted and live to bee heire to his fathers that are deceasseed and injoy his substance the word of God Thus is the Poor man for his patience exalted up to heaven and the Richman condemned to hell for want of understanding the one beeing alive and happy and the other dead and in hell for sorrow They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them c. Yf Moses and the Prophets can quench the wrath of God and extinguish the flames of Hell quiet a tormented conscience then surely Moses and the Prophets are the true and living way to grace and to Christ as Christe is the way to the father and the understanding of Moses and the Scriptures Abrahams bosom And fâ—om hence is that parable luke 16. which is heer proclaimed to Riche-men and Men in adversity Which doctrine as it is called a parable in the greek and a comparison in the hebrew so in latine it is moste properly to bee termed a conjecture which is a doctrine much used of the Iewes called Signes and is moste frequent in the Psalmes parables beeing a good demonstration a principall evidence of truthe As tokens shew freendes so signes are a peece of knowledge wherby wee are brought to beleeff and as wee know in part by them So is it a step of faith And by this observation David is mightily confirmed highly honoureth the doctrine through-out the Psalmes and greatly complaineth that Ierusalem wanted lerned men therin as Ps. 74. Therfor hee first propoundeth the Riche-mans travaile concerning the world counting it a hard thing for him to enter into the kingdom of heaven And makeing all his habilements facultyes of riches nothing worth and all his pleasure to bee but the flattery of the world and but for a short season because the Rich hath many
earth the people of God now prayeth that hee will shew som end of this desolation as Ps. 14.53 and limit their unspâ—akable misery and distress and strech out his hand and save them And that hee would not give away his Church wholely and the soules of his innocent dooves to the beastly kingdoms of the heathen and never more to think upon it but that hee would look to his covenant and pluck their feet out of the snare and defend them from the injury of the darknes of the heathen and maintein his own quarell that the Enimy that revile him grow not too proud and the poor praisers of his name goe away with reproche for ever Construction GnaÃn an eye or to ey or look directly upon To remember is a kinde of looking upon And it commeth oft so look or behold c. The contrary is to turn away angry and forget and regard not all doubled words Daleth the day light and the Sunn for the meanes of sight and pleasure of the eye Gnen for aspect and for fountaines and rivers Daleth a door for the doores and light of heaven or the opening of the understanding Mat. 3. If. 11. both the letters spell Gnad untill or unto for the Termini or reaching from one thing to another a quo ad quem c. And of this sort is day and night sommer and winter c. for seasons or signes which shall never ceas Gen. 1.9 The limitation is by 400 in the words Ribhah Ribheka as Ps. 43.119 R. or 34.25 by the doubling of the word Tsorareka thy besiegers for 490 c. Mark Chajath in a contrary sens and the wordes remember and forget and signes c. repeated How long c. Gned eternity by the oft repeating of Netsach the continuation till when c. Gnadhab to indue for assembly by all kindes and termes of the Church Sheep of thy pasture shaft or tribe or rod of inheritance the hill of Sion holynes Synagogue Sanctuary Tabernacle congregation c. The indument and habit of the Church is the praysing of the name of God and the roring and blasphemy of the Enimy the contrary For privation which is the summ And again Gnad for spoil for the doubling of the outrage of the Enimy in their ransacking of it Salvation were the walles and the gates are prais now turned all to havok and reproche Leviticus Ther is a new Citty or a new civility which is the word of God whose walles are salvation and her Gates are prais Heerby God hath shewed himself a saveing King in the midst of all the world by dividing it by his Ministry which is his strength and passing through as through a sea Exod. 14. Ezech. 47. And makeing it as cleer as glass Apoc. 4. wher the heades of the Arc-enimyes are broken in peeces and the great devouring fishes of the Sea brought to land and devoured Preachers break up the fountaines of the word that rivers of doctrine flow they discover the depth shew the bottom of mighty rivers Mark the iteration of the words the affectation and prosecution of them and you shall plainly see the intendement The Synagogue and place of exercise preaching and invocation destroyed PSALM LXXV FOr the revelation of the mystryes of godlynes and propinquitye of Gods word called his Name which is the inward and harty understanding therof in person of the church And becaus hee hath had time to attein to a perfit judgement therin and to discern what mould every man is made of and the frailty therof and is cunning in his workes and wayes and all his ends and that all the people in the world bee but melting pillars of earth and vainglorious and wicked men that aim at highe preferment hee assureeth them that stand they never so stiff and look they never so high one way or another or farr off they add nothing to their stature Ps. 83. but that it is God that knoweth their size that advanceeth or abaseeth all men according to their understanding And becaus in the hand of the Eternall are the Scriptures called a vessel full of sparkling and seething wine with the spirit therof which hee draweth out and propoundeth and that the wicked drinck but the litterall dregs therof as Ps. 11. and are of a muddy understanding hee sheweth that hee will tell and sing the same in psalmes perpetually to the God of Iacob That hee may by this doctrine cutt off the loftynes and vain glory of the wicked called his hornes the image and power of oppression Dan. 2.8 That the Iust may the better shine and bee highly glorifyed Construction GnajÃn an eye from Gnaian to set eyes or affections on for high looks and strange projects for preferment and glory for seeking it east and west and all the wilde world over He the second letter to behold Lo heer or ther to thank or confess thy name is nigh they declare thy miracles c. I will tell to the God of Iacob c. to draw out and wring out c. which is to bring hid things to light or in presence or to shew or vaunt or to sweep them away as by the two letters from Jagnah to sweep Is. 28. for the contrary And this kinde of sweeping is the cutting off of the hornes and glory of the wicked c. hee exalteth c. the doubling of Hee is a pointing c. Leviticus The sermon is that God and his word doth all and that is ever present and neer that hee doth measure us and weigh us and condemn us putteth down and setteth up Da. 2. from Is. 28. Wher Iudgement is layed to the rule and righteousnes to the balance c. By these wordes I measure c. God is hee that â—udgeeth c. by resembling of the scales and balances high and low c. Besides hee hath his cup of condemnation to sweep away the wicked by preaching it unto them The effect of all is discretion and demonstration That a true light of all and not a vain or proud conceit promoteeth PSALM LXXVI GOD is moste famous in Iudah and Israel and especially-ly in Zion and Ierusalem wher hee dwelleth for discomfiting the Kings of Canaan called the devouring hills utterly destroying them in his anger for their Malice to the Church and the Promiss as Ps. 2. rebukeing them and their forcees with an eternall sleep astonishment and stupidity with his angry presence and his Iudgement proclaimed out of the Scriptures called the heavens when hee riseeth to save his poor people the church and to set them in quiet Now seeing Gods anger and malice so kindled in them doth make him so famous by so horrible destruction hee prayeth to indue them with the rest of his choler to make an end of his Enimyes And willeth his church to pay their vowes to their God and to keep promiss and covenant with him and that they doo gratifye the Eternall for his terror that so faythfull-ly
PSALM XCII MOste sweetly by the fowerth doth this Psalm hang to the former two for that Psalme hath all partes of the thâ—ee Haveing obteined their request and deliverance from evill dayes they can not but bee merry and sing the wayes and woâ—kes of the Eternall with solemn worship evening morning to advance his Name Which they acknowledge to bee a benefit of high transscendence and excellent consequence to them and past the understanding of the beastly and froward kinde of men which is let the wicked the Molesters of the Church and the Enimyes of God flowerish never so well and look never so green they note they shall bee rooted out for ever and perish as Ps. 109. and bee soon dissevered one from an other and all their combination frustrateeâ— when God shall survive for ever and hold up the horn and glory of his Church with a fresh anoyntment And they shall have a whispering intelligence out of the word by examples of all plottes and practises against them and shall behold their Tormentors as plain as in a glass And they the Iust as Ps. 36. shall bee green and floweâ—ish in their age bee in good likeing that are planted in the hous of God and grow as upright as Cedars to shew the uprightenes of the Eternall and their rock that ther is no wrong in him This from Eden the garden and plantation of God Gen. 2. for the Congregation Construction Tsadeh for meat or food and this is the Sabbath instruction out of the word of God the continuall praising and preaching therof the Sabbath service early and late hee makeeth it meat and drink to think upon and relate his creation Psal. 1. of so deep a cogitation Hee dealeth upon the effect as far of feeding with fresh oyle I am all perfused c. Deut. 32. Ne. 9. Prov. 21. to wit oiley oâ— fat Again they shall bee still farr and fresh c. that bee preachers of righteousnes Beth a hous the second letter for the plantation of his hous and courts and congregation And bothe the letters make Tsab or Tsaba to play the minister or to exercise the Ministry and leitourgy of the church to tell out c. to declare c which is to feed The food is Kindenes and faythfullnes and uprightnes c. also a kinde of feeding is seen by a flourishing and prospering and freshnes and greenenes Tsab also of Iatsabh to stand or abide Eljon above or surmounting as between God and his Enimyes is heer plainly argued Mark the repetition of the wordes for the eternity of the godly life and the vanity and frailty of the contrary This for the same number of verses must be considered to think of Iah for Iehovah 15. in bothe Mark the relation to Eljon All alludes to Eljon the Highe Numbers The wildernes heer is the sottish rude bruteish and froward kinde of people and wrong dooers and enimyes to the creation of Man and all reformation of manners which are against all culture and manureance of the church Thes for their wickednes in all their prime flower are supplanted rooted out perish When Gods hous and plantation and colony of the just shall flowerish with all manner of prosperity for ever It is a good thing to be thankfull for our reformation and to be disciplined unto eternall life Mark the repetition of wordes and also of kindes PSALM XCIII THis Psalme farther prooveth the benefit of the Sabbath service which according to Ps. 29. setteth out the strength and statelynes of the Ministry that at this time and place the word of God beareth swey that amaseeth judgeeth and confirmeth all the world It is the pretious attire of the Eternall imagined by the costly jewells stones and softnes of rayment which the priesthood ware Wherfor to this psalme and the former and the rest of the sabbath belongeth the whole epistle to the Hebrewes much of the revelation and Ezekiel and a great part of Exodus all buissines of the Tabernacle The Eternall is the righteousnes of the word of God and his Throne the Scriptures boâ—h ancient of dayes from everlasting antiquity the gaynes of habit and ornament therof is wisedom and the cincture truthe which is the whole strength and stay of the world and this is the law of God that holdeth all the world uprighte The rivers great waters and the seas all the degrees of the Heathen have lofty things to utter but the word of God far passeth all His Testimonyes and Law his protestation and covenant bee moste firme things and sure to leane unto ther is no fault or dissembling in them and that makeeth the holynes of his hous for which all the world have their affection and resort therunto as long as the world lasteth Construction Tsade for meat or food which is heer the word of God Deut. 8. Math. 4. intended by the iterateing of the termn voice as the moste high voice of the Cryer in the wildernes Math. 3. Mark 1. Luc. 3. Io. 1. Is. 52.40 the preaching of the word the raigneing and prevailing of the righteousnes therof what a wonderfull and everlasting nourishment the kingdom of God yeeldeth to the Godly and appetite of the faythfull after their creation and reformation It yeeldeth food and rayment Is. 59. Math. 6. Ps. 29. The word is indued with high excellencey and with great might And this is the strong angelicall food Ps. 78. Io. 6. even fayth the holynes of his hous mark all the repetition and relation to the Sabbath Ghimel hath a contrary sens heerunto as to wayne and may not bee useed heer but is useed in the next peece wher Daleth is spareed becaus it maketh the first letter by spelling Both the letters make Tsag of Iatsag to constitute or place For the place or constitution church or assembly Numbers The paradise of God Gen. 2.3 a place moste expetible and desireable a Kingdom and Dominion raised out of rudenes a requiteing and bearing down of the Nations called the waters by the waters of the Law farr excelling with all power and Glory and sanctification everlasting inclosed PSALM XCIV NOw when righteousnes reigneth is a time for the Church to call for Iudgement upon their oppressours Seeeing God that is the Iudge of the world doth hear and see and understand all the workes of the proud and wicked heathen and correcteth them and bringeth them to knowledge beyond and contrary to their imaginations hee well knowing the vanity of mens thoughtes Now seeing Iudgement is according to Iustice and answereth to all upright mindes after the Law they are sure to doe well and prosper at the last notwithstanding their correction Which beeing for the Law and for rest dureeth but while a pit of utter destruction is in makeing for the wicked which as great bodyes moove slowly so their end beeing delayed is surviveed by Iustice and patience at last Hee that makeeth the senses is not sensless but full of light and full of
Iudgement and wholely just and lighteneth all by his Law and must needs require attendance of brutish and heathenish men To turn him from the way of destruction to the way of salvation from the bad way to the good way from the way of death to the way of life by the Scriptures and confirm him And this likewise is a wonderfull benefit of the Sabbath Now in the greatest distress that can com by the Molesters of the church that might even break a mans hart to think on Ps. 115. when they see their feet are gone from under them and they are about to despaire of life and safety then the repetitions of Gods great workes and kindenesses doe releeve them and set them up again with this comfort within them that no corrupt estate or government can indure or reigne check by jowl with him or any Corregnum of such as plot and decree Mischeeff against the just and harmless Therfor now the church prayeth for a cleer revenge a due retribution and a treble reward upon their oppressours and that their God the Eternall their trust and relye would unweave their mischeeff and unplot their devisees and render their own sorrow upon them and destroy them Construction Tsade Food which is the light and understanding of the word the first of all creatures Gen. 1. Io. 1. and it yeeldeth all contentment and satiety help and succour Heer in this peece the brute and foolish are opposed to the lerned and the vexers wicked and ungodly to the Godly and just and quiet ones answerable to the 92. as it were the same and the greevers ther are Iudged heer A great dore is opened c. Daleth an entrance or dore for instruction Mark the repetition destroy c. workers of Greeff c. brute and foolish c. correction teaching omnipotencey of the Eternall in knowledge and power to revenge by paying every one according to their works as Iudges of the earth Ps. 62. That the unquiet and disquieters may have no quiet rest nor Sabbath at all but end with greeff and mischeeff of their own And this according to the letter Ghimel in the last peece for reward or right or judgement or revenge as yf it were still the same psalme observing the A B C for verses with one over to shew Ghimel in the second vers Numbers The wildernes heer is the proud the wicked the disquieters the bruteish the foolish insulters the vaunters the arrogant oppressors sleyers murtherers naughty and mischeevous ones ill Rulers that hunt for the life of the just and condemners of innocents c. The word giveth rest from such and safety and defens but to such is no peace rest nor Sabbath at all Is. 54.48 Iude c. PSALM XCV THer is no peace to the wicked so ther is no rest but to them of understanding and how great a benefit is it then to be brought unto it In this psalme it is by way of their behaviour in the church and Sabbath service They must beginn with triumph to the Everlasting their righteousnes and accord to the rock of their salvation the Scriptures from whence they were digged and formed with psalmes of thanks offering for deliverance for the greatnes of God and his kingdom who hath in his handes all unaccessible places by power of creation putting off the shoos of fowl wayes and unclean lives for the holynes of the place by the feet of the saintes They must doo all manner of reverence to their makeer their God for their induement of Grace and Manners for their Education and fostering them with his own hand by his Law and not with hard and stony hartes full of strife and infidelity and devilish temptation to hear his word but without any wrath or murmuring as Ps. 4. with all contentment to hearken to him and consider his work That they bee not wicked and greeve God and err still in their harts ignorant of his wayes notwithstanding their instructions and bee depriveed of their rest Ps. 81. Consider the great work of the third day Gen. 1. Com. 4. wher it is to bee noteed that the weightynes of the work is still to bee admireed for the necessity of rest and for greater sanctification and blessing of the Sabbath ever som part of the creation is recorded and the Great Creator to be magnifyed extolled and worshiped Construction Tsade for meat or food and that is the makeing and creating of us by the word by the comming together of the words made and formed and feeding and handes c. And hee biddeth prepare gentle and soft harts for instruction at the time of hearing the word that the meat may doo them good that they may beleeve and relent and repent at the comming of the Kingdom When they see the word to raigne and rule see their harts are mislead and hardned and cannot repent nor receive the food at Meribah and Massah Exod. 16. He behold for the greatnes of the Creator they must present themselves in songes gratefullnes in prayers of humblenes with all reverence for the deep serchings out of sight and the steep hills in sight by the abounding and defect of He in divers words and rareity of construction It is also apparent by Hem the demonstrative they comming twise together Numbers Ther is nothing but the word and the wildernes Government and no Government docible and tractable and quiet people and hard harted and disquiet and molesters tempters and provokers Which have no benefit of the word and cannot obtein the rest of the Kingdom but to the troublesom is tribulation and anguish PSALM XCVI THe Everlasting the God of righteousnes is greater and more commendable and far more reverend then all the Gods of the Heathen for makeing and confirming the heavens of his sanctuary wherall worship Majesty strength and decencey is taught before him out of his word wher hee raigneth and setleth all the world as Ps. 29. so sure by his doctrine that it can never bee mooved or carryed away again by any winde And this is likewise to bee reckoned a great benefit of the Sabbath service to all nations and thought worthy of a new song of triumph to his Name and the glory therof His kingdom of righteousnes as Ps. 4. and his miraculous salvation heerby to bee preached and told every day among the Heathen That all Nations famylyes of all the earth may ascribe all glory and strength to his Name and offer and bow unto him with holy fear and trembling before him That thâ— Heavens and the earth the sea and all that is in it may thunder out joy and gladnes all plants feeld-herbs and trees of the wood leap and triumph and keep Sabbath for the Iustice constancey and faythfullnes of their king at his comming to judgement now by his word and secureity of their kingdom for evermore Consider the second dayes work Gen. 1. with the Commandement Construction Tsade for meat or food this is joy in
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
bee saveed but by faith and faith commeth by hearing and hearing by the word of God Heerby they discern whether they bee of God or no and what way they goe or ought to walk Construction Quoph of jaquaph to compass or inviron heer hee intimates the kindenes grace and favour of God called his hous and citty that entertaines none but the faithfull and them that walke uprightly before him Mark the words within my hous in my sight mine eyes are upon dwell tary c. doubled Also the word citty equall to it According to the instruction of the word intimated likewise by the letter Aleph to instruct as by the doubling of thes words perfect way instruct c. Both the letters make Qua vomit or to vomit or purge to which hee frameeth the reprobate and the contrary church and synagogue of Satan Apo. 2.3 the hurtfull children or belial that are every way in their harts farr from God and his way and his word and therfor are not to dwell with him Math. 7. Is. 29. Ier. 12. but to be cut off and to bee spewed out and not brooked Ap. 3. Mark the doubling of put away c. and dissolve c. and abide c. Numbers The wildernes heer is the devillishnes of mankinde for which hee is accursed and cast out forsaken and left desolate turners from instruction froward harts secret accuseers proud dissemblers deceivers and lyers and workers of greeff Which beeing banished the Church and hevenly citty of God ther will remain nothing but salvation strength and power and the Kingdom of God therin Ap. 12.21.22 For the manifold judgement of a wicked hart that is allwayes compassing of ill wayes 2. Cor. 5.6 Pro. 11.19 Na. 1.2 PSALM CII IErusalem long waiting for the expiration of their captivity and return from Babel beeing promissed to them by the Prophet to bee within seventy yeers now when the time approcheed they beginn deeply to consider their misery with a harty sadnes like David Ps. 31. and upon many considerations to pray that God will not fail at the set time to deliver them and have compassion on it for his own glory becaus hee built it and hath his name called upon in it and for his servants glory in the service of him and their love to the place and for the glory of the place it self beeing the joy of all the earth and for their great paines of dureance and an intolerable feeling that they have of their calamity growing old and withering therin They pray and shout hard unto God to bee heard quickly becaus their age is almoste evapoured away and their lives expirâ—ed their bones burning and their harts withering in their bellyes for sorrow they cannot eate their meat and they sigh till all their fâ—esh bee gon and skinn and bone com together They are wondred at like owles in the day and like som lone or strange bird upon the hous to all the rest railed and charmed at by their Enimyes that bread and ashes in all one to them for meat and they have store of teares to their drink for the terrible wrath which they feel in them that hee hath cast them off Now for that their dayes goe downward and their lives decline like an afternoon God and his remembrance remaineth still before and after heaven and earth that hee hath made with handes they pray that hee will have pitty upon Zion and for his own prais in future generations hear the Prayer of his people that is overthrowen without disdeigne and loos them home again to prais him in Zion Ps. 133. and serve him with other nations in Ierusalem and that hee that beat down their strength when they wear in the midle of their cours haveing injoyed their Glory but a while and hath such plenty of yeers and generations left that hee would spare them som yeeres of their lives to return with joy and delight in them that they and their children may abide still before him and never be stirred again Construction Quoph to compass to besâ—â—ch for mercey and kindenes and favour and grace and compass in misery when the dayes be com about Iob. 1. Mark the words hear and attend time and set time dayes yeers c. Mercy compassion regard despise c. And the end is inlargement the grace is upon Zion for the special glory of it that is for the church and hous of God in so great account in the world according to Beth the second letter for a hous and now so waste The prayer is for the eternall memory of it intended from Quabhabh to curs in the Petaroth Balak Num. 22.23.24 Vseing the contrary sens as praying in steed of Cuâ—sing and for grace in steed of vengeance Mark the repetitions prayer and the manner remain generations servant seed Zion abide or dwell glory c. Numbers The wildernes The church Ier. 12. Shee is all solitary and strange shee is waste cast out and ruined her Enimyes have vowed her destruction shee is in a consumption with greeff and becom a very Anatomy in her destress Mark the repetition her dayes consume c. her dayes decline c. shee is withered like an herb c. wildernes an owl among the nations c so their state is the wildernes Ier. 12. They can not finde wher they are they are so distracted with distress And all for lack of Zion and the word of God that they pine away for PSALM CIII THese two Psalmes shew the judgement and kindenes of Psalme 101. How for their wickednes and hollownes men are brought in distress and banished from God and for their humility and integrity pittyed and reecived again this beeing the graunt of the request in the former wherby the blessing of the Name of God Ps. 100. for benefits and kindenes is still continued Thus comming by paires as Ps. 20.21.90.91 Request and reward Prayer and Prais misery and joy together Now all correction is greevous for the time though it bee profitable and necessary for salvation at last becaus the mighty gracees and favours of God by it are brought and they must bee layed once at Gods feet and trodden to dust and pounded to powder before rhey will bee reformed of their haughtynes hollownes and stubbornnes that hee â—indeeth in them which now beeing considered hee admireeth much the kingdom of Gods patience and the dureablenes of his mercyes toward his childeren how hee healeth their greeff and pardoneth their iniquityes awaiting their conversion humility repentance and amendment of them and recovereth them again out of the pit to grace them with all good ornaments haveing once stript them of all attireing them anew with all good gifts of the spirit which may bee profitable to life Now becaus all Gods correction hath been with favour and compassion beeing willing to bee reconcileed unto them spareing their faults and throwing their trespasses away in his heauenly kingdom hee willeth his soul that loveeth him and all the
propertyes and forcees that hee hath in him and all that ever hee can doo and all the Excercisers of the Ministry that hear his voice and may doo his will and commandement and all the rest of the Church his works to bless him and thank his Name for all his benefits Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass Heerupon hee handleth the infinit reach and work Kingdom of Mercy and grace and love and kindenes of God the excellence therof to his observers and all them of tender harts that fear transgression His angels pitch round about such Psal. 34. This is equalled in the words and guardeth thee with kindenes and Mercey See the repetition kindenes mercey fear him Eternall c. For his kingdom and property of merccy domination dominion kingdom c. Ghimel the second letter to reward or bee beneficiall unto which is first in the word good deeds c. Hee hath not don according c. but c. and then by returning of thanks by the termn bless so often repeated And requireed of all degrees of ministers the kingdom and of the word and his will as grace for Grace Hee handleth here Gods lenity Mercey and goodnes onely according to the letters and also the Name Iehovah and of his virtue Exo. 33. Ro. 9. The Psalme hath just the A B C number of verses to shew that of som one letter hee treateth which is Ghimel for his great Goodnes to all sortes Mark the repetition Numbers The wildernes is wher the word of God is not hard of wherfor the preaching of the kingdom of it was in wilde countryes such as was Iohn Baptists and Pauls c. To Nations rude and hard harted which is heer intimated by the precisenes and great ability of the Ministry the contrary that can hear and are able to doe his word his will and his Kingdom of forgivenes their place is to thank him Because mercy kindenes and charity raigneth in them This is that which wee crave in the Lords prayer Math. 6. See the repetition in commandements word voice hear c. For untill the Kingdom bee com which is compassed with all heavenly civility Wee remain still in the wildernes ungoverned and unformed barbarous and rude PSALM CIV THe everlasting righteousnes of the Law of God the word by which all things were made and without it was made nothing that was made and that giveth life and breath and all things and that all have their living and their mooveing and their beeing in him the everlasting father and creator of the Church and Prince of peace beeing heer describeed for the utility and benefit heerof the people must meeds continue his blessing of the everlasting in his soul and thanks unto his God his discipline beeing of this sort First of his majesty and greatnes then his apparell then his habitation then his goeing and his sending and his work that the word of God is a comely a reverend a grave and a stately thing to behold and for beehaviour and counsell to listen to It is arrayed all with light glory and manteled with the heavens of understanding It dwelleth in the Scriptures and rideeth in parables out of sight in a dark stile above the cloudes It is swift and speedy in operation as the winde and his message and Ministry so swift and so firey that ther is no withstanding or disputing hee so establisheth the earth in doctrine that shall never bee mooved the waters of the scriptures are so deep about it that all the world is drowned in them yet his thundering spirit mooving upon them by doctrine divideeth them and discouvereth the deep and his secrets therof and sending the rivers of his doctrine between the hills among the villages to instruct the brutish wher the heavenly birds of men may sing praises in the woods the books of the Bible by the fruit of his creation the hills are taught to bear fruit to satisfy and content the earth with grass for beasts as Nabuchadnezar that proud King outward man with that base diet of uncapability and hearbs fruit to make themselves all manner of sustenance countenance and confidence and grace to his creature the Church and inner man with all deintyes Psal. 23.21 That they may bee contented with the doctrine of the cedars the Ministry which God hath set in his Church wher the queristers dwell wher for loftynes of building and edification the holy stork is safe so is the Roe by the hills and the cunny by the rocks so that all salvation is by it Hee putteth of his light at seasons and layeth down his clothes of understanding by setting waneing and eclipsing of the lightes and makeeth darknes for the wicked to seek their pray and wilde and savage brute men to walk in ignorance that couch as soon as it is light and knowledge ariseeth at hearing of the word that the Church may travail safe and have all the understanding and injoy the light therof till the evening all their lives And what is ther in all the earth that the wisdom of God hath not wrought His wisdom is in the broad sea the Heathen and the deep is round about him ther is knowledge and understanding of all the creatures therin and the sport of the devill among them and of the ships upon it the Arks and the Churches saveed and transported by it All which doo hope upon him to receive instruction in their time who dealeth unto them his doctrine and they are well satisfyed and contented Yf they want the word or it bee restrained from them they are dead ther is no life in them and consume to nothing but at his sending out of his spirit the Law his firey message the face of the earth is clean changeed and the Church renewed and repaired and re-edifyed again And now that the glory of God the righteousnes of the Law Psal. 19. may bee revealed by him and God may rejoyce in him his Minister and work of his word and because his â—peech pleaseth him who is so terrible hee promiseeth to sing Psalmes unto him And because God likeeth it hee wil never have don that the wicked may bee quite consumeed And willeth his soul still to bless him For benefits as before Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass or inviron which is heer by all kindes of habit all habitude of apparell or worship or reputation that a man weareth or putteth on or that hee is indued with or is bestowed upon him or covereth Ps. 109. Chariots Chambers Servants c about him as light heavens garment clothed putting off covering chamber winde breath Ghost spirit c. See the repetition· Daleth the second letter for a door is expressed by the riseing and setting the goeing out and in of the Sunn in the Hebrew Ps. 19. For the use or end therof Both the letters Quad of Quadad to incline or bow down the head or croune for a worship after the manner of the
Iewes which with Psalmes and great rejoyceing hee expresseth Mark the doubling sing Psalmes sweet speech bless rejoyce c. as in the former Psalm Numbers The Ministry is the Creator Mark the first and last wordes The Message messengers the work the spirit send mans hart bread satisfy c. the wordes doubled shew the Metaphore And that preaching so farr resembleth the creation by reformation out of dust bread of the word for to comfort mans hart c. The end of all is the creating of man and his renewing which is not don but when God hath once been throughly angry with his people And hath brought them to their wits end that they bee even becom dust againe with misery affliction trampling upon of the wicked quite to abolish wickednes and sinn and make an end of iniquity Dan. 9. and make all plain before them so that by the reformation the wildnernes is discerned Heer Nun is added to the plurall for reformation of the word according to the singular For increas of the Church and creation of strangeers Psal. 146. PSALM CV BEcause all creation were vain not worthy prais without preservation as Ps. 89. hee makeeth heer the Cadence of this book to continue dureing bothe to the end heerof shewing in thes two Psalmes and that following all his mighty and strange works of his deliverance and saveing of them and his kindenes to them all along Wherfor as it is a good thing still to bee mindefull of gracees as Ps. 92. So this Psalm is penned for a Psalme of thanks-giveing or grace after meat for the Church to sing Shewing their poor and hard beginning for number acquaintance and provision their growing increasing fruitfullnes and strength in a strange country against all conspiraceys How Moses with the light of the Law starved their Enimyes by the cups of the wrath of God which plagued their policy bringing darknes upon their understanding and befooling them and steined all their learning God sent Crawlers for promotion in their Kings court and sent a number of biteing rumors and Enimyes invasion in their coastes with hail of oppression that beat down all their doctrine and good things and hee made their spoilers and their pollers of their common-welth to increas and destroy their Princees Apoc. 16. Heerby Israel grew strong and wealthy terrible to their Enimyes brought out by a cloud and secret purpos of the Law and lighted them in the night by the fire therof their earnestnes of song and egeâ—nes of zeal among them to guide them and fed them with all deinty meates and musique the doctrine of the promiss which beeing performed in the highest degree that they might keep and observ his Lawes Now they beeing thus fed and delivered hee wisheth the Church to worship him and call upon his Name and prais him and sing Psalmes unto him and mention all his workes and make merry with his Name and inquire out his strength and seek his face and remember all his wonderfull works and shew themselves by all meanes thankfull for them Constuction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass or inviron is heer interpreted by Iosephs bondes and imprisonment by the wordes hurt and instruct for oppress and binde and also the contrary by loosing and inlargeing c. which implyeth a kinde of compassing conteining and holding The two letters Quoph and He make Quhah or Quah from Jaquah to obey Heerto hee alludeeth by all strength rule and commande and obedience and disobedience Mark the repetition cleernes by the relation of kindes of contraryes And this agreeth to the first For Ioseph is made ruler and Lord of all And bindes and looseth hath the keyes of the Kingdom and of the hous to ordein and instruct all Math. 16. by all bonds and covenants good rulers the staff of bread and water Is. 3. Thes words are doubled ruler commande send word c. hee was found right by the rule of the word He to behold the second letter is reported in such words as these for presence absence plain and secret things The servants of God the continuall and all manner of worshiping and serving and seeking of him the repetition will make it plain Name signes miracles wonders servants chosen all mysteryes vail cloud light c Abraham Iacob Isaack Israel c strangeer preaching boasting seek inquire face remember statutes for judgement c. For discretion or decree c. Numbers The wildernes is the wasteing of the Enimye by invasion and plagues of destruction The message of evill Angels and spirits of wrath Ps. 78. Iob. 1. adversity makes them loos their hold The Church is arrived according to the promiss and preserved The Patriarchs and Prophets by their message and the word are the walles and circuit therof Ap. 7.11 What went yee foorth into the wildernes to see c. Ther is nothing but strange and hard things and wonders and monsters there that is incredible to report So ther is much mystery in the word and of Godlynes and when the Church is not well informed the word it self seemeth a desert for the wonderfull hardnes of it which the letter makeeth in this Psalme But it is cleered by a heavenly revelation and spirituall interpretation which is the seeking of his face by the mighty operation of the word and brought to bee beleeved by the Church And the rest for infidelity is left a wildernes Apoc. 12. Ier. 2. Mark the repetition wonderfull works excellent Acts wonderfull miracles signes and miracles c. and this in nations wher no culture or manurance and right worship is For the Kingdom and conduct of the word PSALM CVI. SHewing the often sinning transgression and fall of the Church and their murmuring against God and their often receiving again to favour and mercey by God their often forgetting of his kindenes to them and his often pardoning and forgiveing them again in Aegypt at the Sea in the wildernes in Horeb in their tents at Meribah in their warrs in their offerings at the request of Moses and Phineas and of his own good will often times delivering them out of their distresses remembring his covenant and also beeing comfortable to them by hearing their own requests and according to his great kindenesses takeing them to mercey before their captivers wherby they beleeved his word and sung his prais but for the goodnes of such everlasting favour and the virtues of his kingdom what wight is able sufficiently to set out and worship and thank him worthyly Now the Church haveing sinned in frowardnes like their fathers and beeing in the like distress in captivity and scatered among the heathen hee prayeth that now at his request hee would gather them again and bring them home to worship his holy Name And that God would let them see the kinde salvation of his people likewise that hee may also behold the joy wealth of his Choseen and becom a glorious Actor of his prais
blessing and thanking magnifying and extolling the highe Name of the Eternall See the doubling of the word high rais set up above c. Is. 25. Deut. 20. And this also agreeth with Ghimel to requiâ—e or reward How God rewardeth prayer and thanks doe pay for Grace Deuteronomy The Name of God is his Law and his word which shineeth all over the world and the glory therof is compareed to the sunn in his cours Ps. 19. The true consideration heerof and dayly lectureing heerupon and invocation and consulting on the same is as prosperous to the baseer and conteinned sort of people which affect it as the Sunn is to make the grass to flowrish And cheerfull as Sarah for her sonn Isaak and as comfortable to the disconsolate ones See Name multiplyeed See hâ—ghe rais set up the words doubled The rehearsing is by the perpetuall celebration and praising of it It is a Name above all Names 1. Kings 8. Phil. 2. And this is a wonderfull work of kindenes which is his way c. Gods humiliation to respâ—ct them Like a resurrection of them For the Mighty effâ—ct of the Name Iah distributeed to Abram and Sara as before In exalting and multiplyeing of them And these bee the Words heer from Gen. 17. PSALM CXIV THer bee three things that cannot bee satisfyed and the fowerth can never have enough no more can the Law ever bee sufficiently glorifyed by sens and enriched by interpretation wherof ther is no end This psalme sheweth by way of example the effect of understanding the former When Israel had obteined the blessing and was redeemed from a base bondage and miserable slavery to bee great Lordes and Conquerors in Canaan and had Iudah for his Church and all Iacob for his Lordship how could they refrain to daunce and sing to see the Gentiles and the Hethen flye and Nations to turn their backs and kingdomes and Dominions to quake at their comming as Ps. 77. and presence of the God of Iacob that turneth hard placees of scriptures into smooth and easy doctrine for the hardnes of the letter such was the commotion and horrour of the Nations But for the spirituall sens it serveth for rejoyceing to the church for depth of imagination and greatnâ—s of his workes as Ps. 92. Also when the hard harts of savage men bee melted into water and tempered that they becom docible and affable and tractable by hearing the word And not continue as at Meribah Ps. 95. full of provokeing when all shadowes fly away and they continue with him with whom ther is no shadowing or varying or turning out of all horrour or fear or trouble or trembling in the holsom doctrine and righteousnes of the Law and cleer expositions and interpretation therof by separating and by putting away all confusion therby According to the Creation of sea and dry land Gen. 1. For uncovering to the Creator and rejoyceing before him Construction Quoph of Jaquaph to fetch a compass to com about again or returne Which is signifyed by Israel and Iacob repeated for their return likewise for the turning back of the river the daunceing of the hills and turning round of the earth for their comming home fullfilling the promiss the supplanting tripping of theÌ„ overthrowing and subverting turning the rocks c. contrary to the work in the former For all things are made to turn their cours clene contrary the mountains to moove the rocks to flow and rivers run back and the sea to give way Ex. 15. Gen. 15.46 Is. 11.43.48 Hab. 3. Jod a hand for bancks or shores or sides Daleth a door for turning backward and see the repetition of the words Iudah had the leading and commande Iohovah for mercy is not but Adon for Lord and rule Deuteronomy Hee mentioneth heer 4. mighty miracles in correcting of the creation at his pleasure for no cours nor estate is able to resist God his presence which hee promissed for a conductor in all the travail or keep his place or his way It is so terrible that no creature can abide it Iacobs own presence is also wonderfull which of so few as 70. in fower hundred yeeres grew to an army of six hundred thousand beside the women and children and aged It might fright the country wher they came and make them horred and their hair to stand upright to behold them c. What is it that a great Commander cannot New Lords new lawes and all upside-down And such are the wordes and Acts here ment as before in the Construction PSALM CXV NOtwithstanding the rejoyceing of the Church for the recovering of Canaan injoyeing the blessing and promiss yet in this Psalme they forget not to give all the glory therof to God and to his Name as Psal. 29.44 for his wonderfull works of kindenes and faithfullnes as Ps. 92. For his helping and defending of them in all distresses for remembring of them beeing in misery and blessing of them with the inheritance promissed Psal. 2. The cheeff strength and glory of the song the makeer of heaven and earth and owner of the highest heavens and of all the senses disposeer of the earth and dwelleth in heaven and doth whatsoever hee pleaseth That all the whole church both Laity and clergey and all that fear him or Profess him hee may bless all litle and great and much more abundantly them and their childeren after them in reproche of the heathen and their sensles Images that can doo nothing nor have their five wits or any witt about them And therfor becaus they that are worn out and are dead and are buryed in their travail can not prais him they that bee alive resolve to bless him and wish to prais him for ever In which Psalme is found the whole profession of godlines of faith and confession and thanks giveing of Glory and prayer and prais c. Spiritually to the Law of God and righteousnes therof and judgement therin that hath every point of atteinment conteined in it bee ascribeed this help and defence remembrance and blessing as Psal. 66. To the which therfor and in which bee the glory confidence and prais that hee wisheth the imployment of the senses which Imagees neither know nor doo therfor all the senses and wayes of blessing and prais bee ascribeed therunto Becaus for Idolatry the Heathen are turned out of doores and the Church for the fear of God and reverence of his Law are redeemed and made Heires that they give all glory therunto and put their trust in the righteousnes therof and commend it Becaus all the Senses are to bee implyed for judgement and the whole wisedom of Man resteth in the Law the Law is to bee glorifyed with all might And becaus by wisedom blessings are obteined it self is to bee re-applyed in all afflictions and to bee blessed for ever from the creation of heaven and earth Gen. 1. And this for the foolery of Idolatry that slayeth the Church with greeff Psalm 42.44
in this psalme hee makeeth every letter a preacher and keeper of the Law Hee dealeth not onely by A B C as in other psalmes to ground them in the profession of Godlines but by mood and method in all art to instruct them to felicity and to crown thâ—m with eternall life that is the best understanding the wel performing of the Law according to the true sens therof So as every letter useeth to vary according to the work this is eight fold for the number of consequencees and workes of the Law For now hee seeketh not the way of the Lord as ps 25. nor the fear of God ps 34. nor faith psal 37. nor the work of God psal 111. nor charitable riches ps 112. but the whole perfection and light of the Law ps 19. the stone that slew Goliah psal 9. and perfect way of God the sunn and moon light of judgement ps 19.37 the flood that drowneth the Enimyes and destroying meteors ps 29. and bridle of humility 39. and redemption 49. the cloud 99. the curs of the serpent 109. by note and collection wher all the 22 letters doo shew their skill in keeping the Law that hee may drink a helth unto them as ps 116. and hee may bee throughly welcom for doctrine as in the last psalme haveing on the whole armour of salvation against all sweet temptation as of riches prais and strength and favour The second third fowerth and fifth verses in Râ—sh contein Chronicle in their first wordes and first letters For the severall states from the promist and time of peregrination in Egypt and till they returned to Canaan again 430. for the time of the judges 480. For the time of the Kingdome till the end of the captivity 477. from thence are the 490 Daniels weeks to Christ. which St. Math. hath by generations fâ—om Abraham to David to the captivity and then to Christ. Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass is moste proper the grace and love of God the truthe of the word the way of eternal life to guard him save him Iod for continuall publication and confession therof Teth of Natah to decline as the keeping of the Law or swarving from it Quit for Quot to greev or bee yrksom or lothe Hee disputeth by the contrary his exceeding love and delight that hee hath to the Law Therfor that hee might be perfected Deuteronomy His recitation heer is of the grace and truthe of the word and of the wonderfull effects of it propertyes and parts of the Law which bee 8 according to Exo. 20. Com. 2. Hee prayeth for mercy infinite for his infinit love and observation of the same That hee may have life therby The Abce is eight-fold frameed to the eight termes of the Law so that not one vers in all the Psalme doth fail of som one of the sayd remnes and ever more in every vers one of them is doubled to make you mark it In He the eighth letter himself onely excepted And these bee the words heer meant by a kinde of Mishne or duplication by A B Ces to eight PSALM CXX THese fifteen psalmes have not one word of the Law nor Elohim the name of God for judgement once in them wherby it appeereth they argue tresspass and transgression according to the title and the stile as for trespass offerings for grace and peace and pardon and forgivenes wholely Because hee dares not stand to the Law for his salvation as ps 130. The number agreeth with Iah the eternall for his grace and goodnes and continuall presence Exod. 33. The Iewes affected a heavenly Kingdom and the heathen them This Psalme keepeth reckoning of the dayes of strife Gen. 6. the degrees of excellence of the Law 15 cubits above all nations and Kingdoms of the world by the baptism of the holy Ghost The divill was a murtherer from the beginning the serpent and Enimye of God and his Church by lyeing and fals dissembling which is his whole practise against the truthe for which hee is accursed and condemned as ps 109. heerwith hee woundeth moste deeply with greeff the hart of the Godly that love the truthâ— that a Giants strength can not pierce so deep with the sharpest arrow and kindle-eth hotter wrath and more smarting strife then can bee resembled by the hotest burning coles that can bee This Enimye is Meshek and Kedar an ill neighbour of the Church the country of Gog of the sonnes of Iaphet northward which yet could not like to bee of Sems religion beeing sowen among them For they were mighty and desireed warr with the Church and hateed the peace therof For this the Church is far from building tabernacles among them for their preachers glory But for the coursnes of their neighbourhood and entertainment thought themselves accursed to dwell with them and the time too long they had spent among them the time too long they had spent among them and set their minde upon them And becaus they know not what belongeth to this peace and prosperity of the Church and are good for nothing but to offend it and have nothing in them but this kinde of persecution as they are scattered among them the Church beeing in this woe and dâ—stress prayeth for deliveranâ—e from them Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to inviron is heer to gird too streit by the termn distress or affliction Hee is besieged with spitefull and contentious neighbours Thes 15. compass by the figure Anadyplosis duplication or repetition according to Mishne torah Of the suns goeing back Is. 38. adding to the kings dayes by life of the Law Psal. 61. in repairing Hezekias according to his Name Caph to bow or bend transferred to thâ— bow of the tongue that is sayd to shoot falâ— and deceiptfull words Ier. 9. Ps. 64.58 like arrowes of wildfire and inflammations unquenchable Ia. 3. Mark the repetition to be invironed and confineed as to inhabit sojourn or dwell affliction peace warr deceiptfull tong c. Caph a hand for the betakeing their handes to weapons And arrowes are for handes and also tongues Psal. 35.64 Deuteronomy This kinde hath nothing to doo with the Godly no more then the divills with Christ. Math. 8. Mar. 5. Luc. 8. Not to talk grace or truth or to medle with a godly way or repeating of God his miraculous works or confessing his kindnes or preaching his truthe and eternall life beeing Enimyes to peace What shall it give c. What shall it add c. Which is heer for recitation They can not doo God any service beeing quite opposite PSALM CXXI BY faith all men are made the sonnes of God therfor stand fast in the faith for by faith yee stand This psalme is fitted to the former to shew the succour releeff for such distress That against the fals-hood ther is no such strength as uprightnes and no such confidence as in a cleer conscience and in right perfection and no such preservation as that of the Creator him self That
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
repetition Deuteronomy Ieshurun and Israel are acted as Deut. 32. Ies. 44. that the uprightnes of Israel should bring peace to Israel What is Israel but a quint-offence of uprightenes and pureity to whom God useeth to bee beneficiall Mark Jesharim and Israel all they that trust c. his people all the righteous all good and upright c. and this may serve for a rehearsall also PSALM CXXVI YF God bee made unto us wisdom righteousnes and sanctification and redemption hee that rejoyceth let him rejoice in the Lord for highe degrees of knowledge and exaltation into a paradise of revelation Let him rejoyce in the service and worship of him and the calling upon his Name as Ps. 92. in the time of peace for in troubles when they are not with themselves they are farr from God and can not com nighe him in time of wrath as Psal. 32. Now out of the greatest sorrow springs the greatest joy and out of abundance of suffering abundance of consolation and the Church hath been often fetched out of the mire and deep pit of destruction and the midst of hell Ps. 69.130 and by the mercyes of God in keeping still life in them in their captivityes and raising them again and redeeming them from the torment and thralldom of their consciences and themselves to the wonder of the world yea in the sight of the Heathen which useeth to strike such passion of joy into the veines and hart of them that they could not choos but laugh and sing in their sleep for their peace and redemption which was their whole affection and waiting beeing awake and in this they had their full desires that their joyes might bee full Now confessing and magnifying Gods great works of kindenes toward them before in divers reductions of them from divers countryes they pray that hee would now by that example bring them again from the rest as the Southeren rivers return flow from the south that out of a heavy seednes of deprivation they beeing scattered and sowen thus among the heathen ther may bee a joyfull return of them like a merry and fruitfull harvest of Sheaves Construction Quoph is heer returning comming about or back again as the dayes of the yeer Ps. 19. 2. Sam. 11. Iob 1. For the dayes of life Is. 38. also bringing about or to pass or compassing or effecting much c. Caph of Caphaph to bow or bend the lamentable depressing of them Psal. 146. captivity and holding and seed lep and sheaves and gripes for Caph a hand also Vau a crook or hook for their deportation and redemption also and for fellowship so heer is a time to weep and a time to laugh Eccl. 2. counterfeteed upon the story of Ishak for the mery return of the promissed seed with so great increas Am. 7. Gen. 16.17.21 Gal. 4. Is. 1. Rom. 9. By the word Laughter c. The name of Isaak Mark the repetition Psal. 14.53 Deuteronomy They increased and grew in their bondage like that in Aegypt as men fed in their sleep and grown fat Iob. 39. and multiplyed in their captivity which was a great work of Gods mercey and kindenes for the heathen to note and to make them merry PSALM CXXVII OVt of joy proceedeth comfort consolation in this Psalme the next the Churches sheaves of posterity and other gifts of peace for the rest and peace of the Church becaus the idolatrous care of this world chokeeth the joy in the Kingdom of God and stifleth all comfort and consolation in the word and in the holy Ghost and because the Church hath all their reward and strength by inheritance from the service of God Ps. 16. and the Prophets are the barrs of the citty gates Ps. 147 and all comfort and quietnes secureity and boldnes against theyr Enimyes by youthfull fruitfullnes of a Godly issue and are moste blessed from the love of him In this Psalme from Salomons overmuch preparation for Rehoboam a simple sonne the vanity of to much provision is moste wisely describeed For heerin men fall into divers temptations when their work is not spirituall nor their building God For they build with things not theirs and for want of due right and property there wanteth concord and for want of concord no construction or building can go up or stick together nor no care in the world can keep such together that which God provideth not As in the building of Babel Gen. 11. and edification in stâ—ange tonges for in Babel the stones of Ierusalem will not serve for building they can make no workmanship of them they feed upon Idolatry and labour in vain walls nor watchmen can hold them they know not what to doo with these spirituall stones but send them home as the Philistâ—ns did the Ark. Construction Quoph to inviron is the building for defence and strong watch about the citty The house of Israel cannot be safe and sure but upon the covenants and promises of God and instructions of the word this psalme is to be construed from Gen. 15 2. Sa. 12. 2. Cro. 23. La. 3. 1. Cro. 22. 1. Cor 3. Pro. 8. the restoring of the captivity is the reward of children Ier. 31. as well as the birth ps 2. for building Gen. 16.30 Caph bowed Caph a hand to contein or quiver or belly arrows and children See build builders hous citty children fruit of the womb children of youth arrows they shall bring forth their building with pain and sorrow opposed to contentment for neither walls nor watching can save their citty but good education and godlines Zain to hear or conceive the doctrine of the word or edification such is Gods building and such are his children as it is good to build and not a vain thâ—ng but a thing that will indure He writes upon Gnir a citty which is derived from Gnir to erect or build and also to watch Therefore he usâ—th all kindes both of building and watching and by sundry termnes mark the repetition Deuteronomy The children of God are well edified and no better defens nor security can be than good edification out of his word it is a blessed thing to abound with them and not a vain thing He sheweth it is the Lords work to restore them and that they cannot stand nor consist without him which is a wonderfull kindenes the contenting and blessing of his beloved PSALM CXXVIII A Mischeevous end belongeth to the wicked by reason of falsshood and deceit but to the godly and just man no temptation shall take them but that which they may well bear neither shall one bone of them be broken or any temptation impaire them at all that truely follow the way to peace but for all happines their labours of their hands shall follow them and stick unto them to cherish them It shall be good and dureable becaus of the equity thereof chiefly their wives the greatest blessings they shall have them to stick fast to the housâ— sides shewing their love they
shall have no wandering thoughts but be ever about the house so that hâ—r husband never want her nor suffer widdowhood and she shall be fruitfull to imbolden him she shall bring up his children to stick round about his table to grace him and that there be no dispersion and that he shall see one generation under another of children dureing the peace and wealth of the church which he shall see all his life In Ierusalem dwelt of all nations men that feared God that were learned in the kingdom of God and could speak this language of righteousnes and peace and other gifts of the holy ghost being not in word but in power one to another beeing of divers countreys For in this is the Church greatly beholding to God and is to thank him for it because they are made rich in all kinde of speech and knowledge and doctrine of the holy ghost that they bee not destitute of any gift and hereby they speak all one thing with one accord and without dissention beeing of one minde and of the same iudgement The gifts of the minde are heavenly gifts and no musique is comparable to them nor any kingdome to that government and the harmony thereof but to the sweetnes of concord and of peace when all agree to hold together by it as the souldure or band of the rest no one gift can be equalled thereunto Peace joyneth all nations together and reconcileth them in Christ that they are no longer strangers of foreiners but all neer kin and well acquainted in Christ and citizens with the saints and of the houshold of God Heer is an high coronation and heerby men raign as kings when all is thus tuned and brought in peace peace-offerings are due and such sacrifice as this of thanks to be sung Therfor whatsoever things are true honest just or pure or belong to love or of good report if there be any vertue or if there be any prais these things are to be thought upon and the God of peace shall be with them For in whom dwelleth the fulnesse of these things he it is that reconcileth all and setteth at peace even Christ this is the unworldly peace that God giveth that the heart be never troubled not in fear and which overcommeth all affliction in the world And thus are they sanctified throughout and by peace are made happy that are the children and servants of God Construction Quoph of Jaquaph to compasse is his wife the vines wedded to the house sides and his children waiting at the tablâ— for helps good additions to him Caph for bowing or subjection like the obedient vine olive plants alludeing to Cippath a vine branch as Caph a hand c. Cheth to fear as Mal. 2. Hee sheweth what is no vain work but a blessed work and what the blessings bee consider the doubling of the words happy blessed welth well peace loe and so alluding to the name Ierusalem they shall see peace children fear c. Hee worketh evermore upon the divers sens of the word Deutâ—ronomy the confession heer is what felicity there commeth of a godly life they have their harts desire and they shall be blessed out of Zion with eternall life they shall have posterity and peace and all delight with it ps 37. with the kinde God will shew himself kinde c. ps 18. The story of Abraham is again thought upon as Gen. 12. for his blessing c. Hee will blesse them that blesse him c. Luk. 1. PSALM CXXIX ALl the culture and tillage of the wicked is upon the backs of the godly that is their whole field where they sow all mischeif is a spoiling and defacing of their lives and all the pains they take is against them They overlode them as Ps. 68. they urge them torment them and constrein them and overwork them and tire them with temptation they drive them and pursue them that the whip is never off their backs and all their devises cogitations and plots are to destroy them And for this they draw all together and are a teem alwayes harnessed ps 83. and ready to plow vpon them and ride them And this the Church found in Egypt Edom and Moab in Canaan in Ashur and Babilon in great measure and with great continuance yea out of measure and without câ—asing yea though they galled them sore and prevailed not yet they never give over they are never at lands end they never throw up the plow their furlongs are endles and their enmity lasteth still They must suffer crosses that will live godly and they must long bear that will be blessed and the crosses of the church for their profession are innumerable by tyranny fear threatning treacherie robbing revenge wars captivities and other trialls and they make an excercise of bearing of them They are to be commended for this high degree of patience which they call long-suffering a great gift of government Such crosses and affliction and tribulation must be undergone and carried and must be rejoyced in for that glorious victory and coronation of them that endure and hold out and overcome and are excellent in those uncarnall thoughts and spirituall gifts of the minde promised Thus is the loss of life the salving and preserving of it the changing of a worse for a better that tribulation bringing patience and patience bringing experience and experience hope and hope the things hopeed for that men be not ashamed of their hope or the vanitie thereof as Ps. 25. Now because this is the justice of God to succour the Iust. and a just thing with him to recompâ—nse vengeance to the troublers of the godly and to them that hate them for the word the church prayeth that it may be after this sort that even still one thing for another and like for like for envying Zion and the prosperity therof and of all the Church nothing may prosper that they put their hands too and they may be ashamed of every purpose and fail of all their attempts against it Ps. 132. that God would cut their harness that they draw by unyoke them and uncouple them and chop their weethes and cords in peeces destroy utterly their husbandry that they may retire with shame availing themselves nothing but retire and take off their hands for shame and their purposes may wither and all their thoughts be extinguished and stare out their eies with looking for and become mad with their hope and cut off ere they see their desires That they may labour for nothing and they may be ashamed of their crop that for nothing bear malice and hatred and arms against it that they may have neither harvest nor blessing of all their plots and devises to delight them Construction Quoph to compasse or inviron is heer to afflict of Zarar to gird strait or strain hard or wring or oppress by which word three times and three severall wayes is the number 490 conteined and expressed to signifie the determining of the
by subjection and the kings and judges in the person of Adam reigning and ruleing over all things liveing and therfor were they to prais him Young men and maides becaus hee was created male and female Old folkes and children by their fructifying and multiplication of a godly seed from the word Increas and Multiply And in this becaus Israel was best entertained and the nearest people to him and had all preferment that his worship and exaltation of his name should in no wise bee neglected of them his Saints for ever Construction Quoph to compass or to inviron as with the cloke of prais Is. 61. from all his creatures and his dwelling in praises and inhabiting of them Ps. 22. that all his works and especially his people Israel and his messengers neerest about him for his exaltation of them should inviron him with prais Apoc. 19.4 Mark the words highthes hold up above exalt doubled Iehovah only Mem waters The name of the Eternall to be praised before and above heaven and earth and all the most commendable things of the world becaus they were made and exalted by him Hee worketh upon the term Iehovah By all the moods and tenses in the Hebrew how hee was imperative future and infinite and never preterite and transitory according to the present tens Hove Jehovah hee shall bee and remain for ever in his works and decrees ps 119· and therfor is called Eternall The waters all kinde of nations kindes and degrees Mark people heaven earth c. The name is six times for six dayes work Hee is to prais the name of Iehovah and that hee doth in the term Hu the affix of Iehovah as Elihu Abihu which two letters in number make iust the repetition of the word prais Heth to prostrate is implyed in the adoration and exaltation and worship of him and casting down their crowns before him Apoc. 4. Quemach meal for all sorts Persius sat 3.5 Deuteronomy Infinite praises and worship is due to him for leaving so many commendations behinde him in his works of all sorts ps 11 1. and this must needs bee confessed a work of great mercy and kindenes also and way of eternall life PSALM CXLIX NOw that the judgement may bee the cleere hee maketh this Psalme a copula or Medium suitable to the former last gon before To tell this judgement was the work of all the Prophets untill Iohn and then this kingdom was takeen by violence and force and men pressed unto it So that now after all places of invention hee now commeth to a collection or syllogizeing of the whole work by the judiciall part for ever unconfuteable That God that made the world should judge the same by sound confirmations consequences and proprietyes and rightes and lawes according to the power of his name Eloah and Elohim of Alah to swear to doo judgement and justice and right and to perform the oath which hee sware to bee a perpetuall redemption to his Church Psal. 110. and a glory to his people Israel with a reprooveing of all injury and injustice of the reprobate So the end is com the end is com as the Prophet sayth and Satan with all his perversity and adversity with all his malice and falshood and subdolity and treachery is judged and the day of wrath is com and hee is discovered and overcom and cast down and condemned for his cotinuall persecution of the Church For this benefit they are greatly to prais his name and sing Psalmes to him in honour of his name make invocation therupon that hath don all for them for reprooving confuteing and tormenting all their adversaryes and cheeff of them and that the Saintes for this peace should leap up in their beds for joy and make a glorious exaltation and triumph for this great day of victory and salvation with accents of exaltations and highe prayses of God and choise songs in their throats and a sharp sword in their handes lyeing by them to shew their meanes of deliverance and courage and valour and preparation of the word of God their defendour that whispers in the ears of all men and warneth them Heerto belong the fignified vertues in the apparell of the Priesthood that they may bee happy whom the Eternall the God of justice chargeeth not with iniquity Psal. 32. So that now it is in vain for to strive as Psal. 2. or the Kings and heades to think of casting away the cordes and bandes of their yokes of subjection to the Church for hee hath appointed his King over Sion and his horn and his anoynted and his prais as Psal. 141.92.86 God hath still favoured them that fear him and planted a gardine of pleasure for them that hee hath begotten a paradise of safety and salvation for his children and hath appointed his Angels and Ministers to pitch about them as Ps. 34. King of Iacob Is. 41.43 Ier. 8. to keep and preserve the way of righteousnes in this life the tree of their lives in holynes And with this grace hath God clotheed his saintes while their Enimyes are judged as ps 2.92.79 and for this ornament and Paradise and comly weed of salvation the skinn that covereth all nakednes that hath no cloud of shames upon it no spot or wrinkle in it Eph. 5. That his saintes should prais him in their congregation with a sonet of all confidence as ps 118. Construction Quoph to compass or inviron as the gratious ones Israel and the children of Sion in praising of him with Ioy in the holy Ghost another part of the Kingdom ps 145. in commendation of Iah their King and makeer Is. 53.22.41.43 Ier. 8. ps 29.48.24 by the spirituall and gutturall sound and prononciation of Iehovah psal 115.135 For every Law must have a King Jehovah calamity Jad a hand He the coactive conjugation of Hiphil working salvation and revenge Mark the words gratious ones and saintes maker work and fullfill Mem waters people heathen nations Kings Nobles c. The calamity and captivity of them and cutting them off and wearying of them according to Quamat to bee wearyed or dissolved Iob 16.22 Jah is intimated By exaltations in his Throat is the aspiration of He meant beeing a gutturall letter so is Iod signifyed by sword for hand ps 17. And thus hee is taken for maker King and God and Almighty and Revenger So they have the name of God or God in their throat and in their hand Mark all the words of Ioy rejoyceing and prais according to it and the repetition upon all Is. 45. Deuteronomy By all kindes of rejoyceing for their salvation the glory of their Kingdom 145.111.112.45 for his notable acts and the majesty of his name Jah in them in makeing and governing and saveing of them in beeing kinde to the kinde c. as psal 18. And this prais is also a good confession or rehearsall of his grace in the other Psalme his works and frame of the world set him out in
this his gratious ones his Ministry must bless him ps 145. with all their might and all the wayes they can PSALM CL. THe things in this Psalme to bee set out are the everlasting strength of God by his judgement and justice and his holynes and his great stature and estimation by his victories and salvation and his great prevailing and overcomming by the Law and that in his sanctuary and in the highth of his hollynes and all solemnityes And for creation and conservation that all things breathing should again and again prais him and evermore extoll him glorifye him world without end with many an Amen and many a hallelujah and God be praised for the same The voice of God in his sanctuary requireeth great strength and glory as psal 29. and great confidence in the firmament of the heavens therof ps 68. And because his word and all that is spokeen in his Temple is glorious hee must have a lofty and a bold utterance and a loud pronuntiation even in the skyes for the syncerity therof Because the scriptures bee the creators of the children of God so they bee their Elders their father and authorityes and witnesses to judge all men quick and dead and by their testimony to disscide all strife and contention So hee that speaketh from hence speaketh soundly and ther is no replyeing against the authority heerof This prooff and testimony putteth the Divil to silence and this of great validity in judgement Becaus it belongeth to all partes of the sylogisme to proov or reproov the same So that the commandements beeing positive and the Cases divers that rise from thence and all condemnation is by judgement so in all casâ—es testimony must bring foorth truthe and truthe an upright sentence which in this psalme for an approbation of all men hee willeth the whole Church to confirm and to justify all that is spoken and that in a high majesty in his Church and that they should prais God in a firmament of faith and confidence as the faithfull and true witness Amen That they should prais him for his victoryes dignity and excellence and for his great magnificence and worthynes honour and estimation as ps 146. And for testimony that hee should protest and witness the same and prais him with all kinde of musique yee the lowdest and willeth that every breath and gasp and aspiration should testifye the judgement and applaude it and sing prais of God Becaus by this the way of God and all just men is manifest and plain as ps 1. Ther is no witnes like the father and a testimony of the Scripture is a good demonstration So to conclude the strength of the Law and lawes and judgements therof with judgement as ps 99. and all the praises of Israel with prais hee hath thus finished the book for the Church that ther is salvation for the people of God ps 3. and that by the Law psal 4. and Kingdom of righteousnes ps 5. with this high glory to God above the heavens ps 8. and worship over all the earth Now is the wrath of God upon the gentiles com and the time of the dead that they should bee judged ps 145.149 and that hee should give reward to his servants the Prophers and to the sainctes and them that fear his name to small and great and should destroy them that destroy the earth Deut. 28. Apoc. 11. and all the mystery of God and of the Law and of the Prophets revealed and finished Apoc. 10. Construction Quopb to compass is heer meant by praising and assemblies about him as the last declareed the person ps 48. the Church is the element of his strength and principall dwelling of the Law and word of God by the preaching and extolling of it ps 29. compared to the sunn as ps 19. for visiting all men with all kinde of lustre and grace about them as Saul Act. 9. as the mighty king according to the power and greatnes of him being possessor and conquerour of heaven and earth Gen. 14. by the letters Quen a nest seat or possession Ier. 22. psal 84. of Quanah to get or obtein or conquer That his name Iah may spring and grow in the sunn as psal 72. according to the letter Nun or N. to grow for his publike prais by musick full of aspiration to express his name Iah exceeding triumph for his exceeding greatnes Hu is a name of God from Iehovah as well as for his excellence and onelynes In respect wherof the term is heer so oft repeated and affixed to praise to wit 11 times the number of the two letters hee is praised in respect of his onelynes wher and wherin and in measure also wherwith and those bee the instruments iust 11. Deuteronomy A hundred and fifty dayes the flood increased so have the praises of God who sitteth upon the flood as ps 22. Hee is king for ever and the strength of his Law is infinit that hee giveth to his people and feedeth them withall ps 28.29 that they should for ever prais him and ever comment upon him and confess his wonderfull kindenes to the children of men Praised bee God FINIS psalmes 26. the law and first prophets 2 Cor 22. Pâ—o 1 4 2 Coâ— 17. the last proph the n t Mic 6 Ier 15 23. psalmes a m 40 112 119 111 101 119. psalmes 37. the law and first prophets Deu 17.6 Pro 1. Ios 1. the last proph the n t 2 Pet 3 3 psalmes 44 137 the law and first prophets Nu 24 the law and first prophets 1 K 18 the last proph the n t Eze 17.31 47 Ier 16 17 Isa 44 Apo 22 psalmes 37 112 the law and first prophets Gen 39. Pro 7. 2 Cro 31. psalmes 37 18 69.68 35 125.69 the law and first prophets Deu. 18 18 Iob 21. the last proph the n t Mth. 2 Ih 21 Hos 13 Ier 13 Isâ— 29 Mal 3 Isa 41 29 Mth 3 Dan 2 the law and first prophets Ios 22. psalmes 103 144 37â— 112.107.16.104.146 the law and first prophets 1 Sa 16 25 Pâ—o 14. Lev 5. Iob 8.17.29 the last proph the n t Ier 6 psalmes 83.35.64 149 the law and first prophets Pro 11 26 the last proph the n t Act 4. psalmes 31â— 64 71 129 107 18â— 105 the law and first prophets Iu 4 5.6 7.8 the last proph the n t Is 30 Is 8â— Eze Ieâ— 5 27 Na 1 the law and first prophets Prov. 1. psalmes 59.52 the law and first prophets Prov. 11 26 1 Sâ— 16 Iu 4.5 6 7.8 Exo 4 6 23. Exo 4 6 23. 2 Sâ— 6 7. Iob 12 De 26 27 32 19 20 29 Nâ— 9 1 Cro 12 Lev 20. Num 10. psalmes 69 81 3 psalmes 40 45 the last proph the n t Is 37. psalmes 89 44.80 35 105. the last proph the n t Hos 11. Act 13 4 Luc 1 Mt. 2 psalmes 22 72 111 11.81 the last proph the n t Hâ—b 1 5 13 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