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A13844	The book of prayses, called the Psalmes, the keyes and holly things of Dauid translated out of the Hebrevv, according to the letter, and the mystery of them, and according to the rule and methode of the compile-er, opened in proper arguments vpon every psalme, following the same, by Alexander Top Esquier.	Top, Alexander.	1629 (1629)	STC 2415.2; ESTC S4135	410,327	284

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 har●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 ●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 crea●ures either by sinne or destiny to prais him

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 swef● 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 Ch●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

aspireing and ambitious appetite 1 Ioh. 2. not fit for a scholler Lamed and Al●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 hee● 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 caste●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 ●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 inde●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 The● 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