can not bee ware of nor acquainted with Ps. 3. hee meaneth well to shew the same in makeing it the tenor and conclusion of all the book and of euery Psalme conteyned in it for a perpetuall rule of necessity the band of construction and the light of the mood and meaning And according to the definition of Iustice which is to giue euery man his due to pay all men according to their work and deserving as Ps. 62. and to requite them with the measure that proceedeth from them hee now feeling the terror that is Enimyes haue caused and the trouble in his mind by their vexation can well tell what to ask of God justly to fall upon them And as hee feeleth the wrath of hell and snares of death that draw men into their graves Ps. 18.55 by a wasteing consumption of the flesh throughout his body hee prayeth for his own deliuerance out of this burning choler which hee calleth the wrath of God by his mercys in due time Ps. 13.30 and that his enimyes may not see his destruction Ps 8.25 which they wish And as it hath been a long threatning of death which hee indure-ed so that they themselues may bee throughly terrifyed and utterly confounded with horror and suddainly ashamed and astonyed to see his acceptation and recovery Ps. 41. And this from thanks and peace offring and sacrifice of remembrance Lev 3.7 for Gods mercy upon true penitencey and confession which Death and the pitt can not perform But is heere expressed by this his terror and bashfulnes even to consumption Like the falling down of the countenance of Cain by the wordes of terror and bashfulnes repeared which thing the very number of the Psalme the letter Van doth signify which also signifyeth a hook or crook So that hee would not lay hold on him and seize on him in his anger but pittyfully and gentle-ly becaus hee is weak and so terrifyed soul and body by his sore hand so long upon him and that therfor hee would heal him of all and releas him and let him goe rather then destroy him and saue him from the grave from whence ther is noe redemptiō not fetching again His sighes fetch teares and his teares pull out his eyes by the provocation of his afflictors Hearing and receiuing his request and prayer and bashfulnes and terror of the enimy to draw them back is all the mystery of the construction The Genesis is Vau hippuc in grammer for changeing the times that make-eth the time past the time to come and also the contrary beeing joyned to the one it makes the other and therfore is called Vau the contrary or Vau the changeable or conversive Gods angry correction by David his enemyes and his terror and indignation hath throughly translated him and changed him therfor hee would an utter confusion and alteraion of their estate which is seen by the comming of the same wordes on bothe sides first on his part and after for his enimyes and also doubled in either place to make them markable for such passions turne men again and changeth and altereth them by a neat resemblance PSALM VII ALL a mans Glory is his life and all his brightenes is the uprightnes therof which was excellēt in David and heerby hee shine-ed before all men as Ps. 132 Therfor hee maketh Iustice his rule and his rule his soveraigne lord and his King his God and religion by all allegiance Heerin hee trusteth for all his secureity in his greatest affliction and persecution for deliverance for the pureity and integrity of his minde and syncerity of his hart against which yf hee hath varyed hee considereth and craveth the judgement due without favour if hee be guilty of the imputation and wrong as to repay his foes or bee revengefull upon his causeles enimyes as in case of Saul and Absolom impute-ed by Shemei that his glory may cease and his life be abase-ed and all his estimation com to nothing Cruell and deadly weapons are provide-ed for cruell persecutors while they plott and conceiue and work destruction by subtile dissembling and fals-hood their own plots and pitts catch thē and the cruell strokes of underminers bring the earth upon them And becaus such was the end and judgement of his enimyes the wicked that in malice still work their own destruction he thanketh God for his justice and commendeth the calling upon his name The Construction is in cleering himself of revenge becaus it belongeth to God only and of the seven-fold judgement of God Gen. 4. according to the figure of seven the number of the Psalme the letter Zain due upon persecutors he shewes also the way of his judgement as all Gods wordes are judgement Deut. 33. The Genesis is in Pagnal a part of speech which is to work for all a mans work bringeth judgement Eccl. 11. which thing will plainly appeer yf the wordes of persecution deliverance work and judgement be considered with the repetition and declination of them for all is but the work of man and the work of God and the end of bothe PSALM VIII BEcaus all Gods service is against his Enimyes all his Doctrine for the Salvation of his people which hee hath made a statute for Iacob and an everlasting rule for Israel Psal. 80. to binde him by the law of Iustice as in these former Psalmes which David maketh his God Psal. 4. and that the very name heerof is a deadly weapon against Satan and all afflictors and the calling upon God the moste soveraigne safegard of the church as Ps. 7. which so commendeth it when hee bringeth up his children in it and teacheth them this rule in their ABCes as in Ps. 25.34.37.111.112.119.145 and for the letters in the rest even through the book to shew that the workers of wrong work their own destruction and this is the Grammaticall lerning that hee hath trayned his church up in to make them skillfull in their warr and their fingers cunning to the battail against his Enimyes Hee speaketh to the former by Admiration heerof so keeping the story of the persecution all along with the meanes of deliverance hee steppeth from Psalme to Psalme And now hee admire-eth the noblenes of his Name for the boldnes of Gods children by their fayth and confidence which hee hath founded upon the righteousnes therof as on a Rock and the perfection of Infants in the law and their strength against their Enimyes as was that of David in his youth Ps. 119. M. and the preheminence of wretched and sorrowfull Man and the great grace of God upon him above more bewtifull creatures beeing preferred to the dominion and moste glorious Lordship of all the creation Makeing him heerby next to God in glory and worship and able to asswage the mightyest Enimyes Ps. 11.16.25 By walking the Sea Ps. 65.77 From the calling upon God in the Dayes of Enosh Gen. 4. Ps. 116.118 For the strength of Salvation And this is the weapon David useth against Goliah when
thou only ô ETERNALL makeest mee abide in safety V. For the Maister vpon the winde Musicque A Psalme of David O ETERNALL marke my wordes vnderstand my MEDITATION hearken to my complaint my KING and GOD when I pray vnto thee ô Eternall betimes in the morning heare my voice assoone as I awake and frame it to thee Because thou art not a God delighted in vvickednes neither doth any evill inhabit thee there stand no vain boasters in thy sight thou hatest all vvrong dooers thou destroyest Lyers bloudy and deceitfull men the Eternall abhorreth Therefore I in thy great Kindnesse come into thine house and in thy feare vvorship at thy holy Temple lead mee ô Eternall by thy RIGHTEOVSNES and make thy vvayes plain before mee because of mine Enimies for ther is no firme thing in their mouthes they are smoothe tonged and they haue throates like open Graues and thoughtes full of corruption Make them desolate ô God let them fall by their counsells beat them dovvne vvith their mighty trespasses for rebelling against thee that all that trust in thee and love thy Name may bee glad and reioyce in thee triumph in thy Protection for ever hovv thou blessest the Righteous ô Eternall and guárdest him vvith a gratious shield VI. For the Master in Song Musicque vpon the Octava A Psalme of David O ETERNALL rebuke me not in thine anger nor correct mee in thy choler have pitty on mee ô ETERNALL fór my bones be astónished and my mind much troubled because thou art so long Come ô ETERNALL release my life and save mee for thy Mercies sake for in death there is no thinking on thee and in the grave who shall thanke thee I am weary of my gronings every night I wet my bed and make my pallet flow with teares Mine eye-sight is decayed with griefe my coúlour is gone by mine enemies meanes away from mee all yee molesters the ETERNALL hath heard my weeping hath heard my supplication the ETERNALL accepteth my prayer Ashame and great astonishment be on all mine Enemies let them all come to sodaine shame VII Davids Song of Error which hee sang concerning Cush the Ieminite O ETERNALL ô my God save mee that put my trust in thee and deliver mee from all my pursuers least they teare mee and devoure mee like Lions and I haue no deliuerer ô ETERNALL my God if I haue don any such iniury if my handes haue don any such wrong as this if I haue rewarded him that payed mâ—e ill and requited him that tormented mee for nothing then surely let the Enimy pursúe mee and overtake mee and lay mine honour in the dust and tred my life on the ground Vp ô Eternall in thine anger advance thy selfe for my tormentors and let mee haue the iudgement which thou hast ordeined yea get thee vp on high with a number of people about thee the Eternall that iudgeth the folke iudge mee ô ETERNALL according to my RIGHTEOVSNES and perfection which is on mee O God thou IVST one examiner of the hart and reynes Let the malice of the wicked haue an end and set thou fast the Iust. My defence is vpon God that saveth the VPRIGHT in hart God is a iust Iudge and a severe God allwayes if a man return not he whets his sword and bends his bow and makes it ready and prepares him deadly weapons and makes his arrows for persecutors Lo hee that conceiueth pain and is great with sorrow and bringeth forth falshood deggeth a pitt and vndermineth it and falleth into it when hee hath made it His mischeeff commeth vpon his owne head and his cruelty lighteth on his owne crown I thank the Eternall for his IVSTICE and praise his most high Name VIII A Psalme of David for the Maister vpon the Gitt O ETERNALL our God how noble art thou in all the earth and worshipfull aboue the heavens thou hast made sucking children in respect of thine Afflictors able with their mouthes to put to silence the moste spitefull Enimy When I look vpon the hevens of thy fingers makeing and the Moon and the starrs of thine appointment I wonder thou hast such a minde to a wreched creature and lookest so well vnto man Thou hast made him want litle of God thou hast crowned him with Glory and worship Thou makest him ruller ouer thy work and puttest all vnder him all sheep and oxen and beasts and foul and fish travailing the pathes of the seas ô Eternall our God how noble art thou in all the erth IX For the Maister of Musicque vpon the Death of the Sonn I Thank the ô ETERNALL with all my hart and set foorth all thy wonders thou madeest mee exceeding glad and to chaunt out thy Name ô Moste-highe for turning mine enimies back which fell and perished before thee for thou hast giuen foorth my iudgement and sentence like a righteous Iudge thou hast chid the Heathen and destroyed the wicked wipeed out their name for euer and all Thou hast broken down their Citties they be consumed and ly waste and their memory is perished for euer The ETERNALL sitteth euer ready for iudgement to iudge the world righteously sentence the people iustly and to bee a refuge for the oppressed a refuge at times of destresse and let them that know thy name trust in thee for thou forsakest none that seek thee ô ETERNALL Chaunt yee to the ETERNALL in Sion tell the people his excellent acts How hee that findes out blood will remember them not forget the cry of the poore Haue pitty on mee ô ETERNALL behold my oppression by them that hate mee ô thou that takeest mee vp from deathes dore That I may shew all thy PRAISES in the gates of Sion beeing glad of thy saluation The Heathen are sunk into the pitt which they made themselues and are caught in a nett of their owne laying Surely the SENTENCE of the ETERNALL that doth iudgement is manifest The wicked is snareed by the work of his owne handes thought also The wicked shall goe to Hell and all Nations that forget God but the poore shall not still be forgotteÌ„ nor the hope of the afflicted perish for euer Vp ô Eternall let not woefull men prevaile let the Heathen be iudged in thy sight teách
willfullnes as yf ther were neither God nor any opinion of goodnes among them haue they not vaine imaginations are not their foolish harts full of darknes when they call not upon God nor seek after him nor any behaviour of Godlynes Now how are the holy people of God spoiled as Ps. 12 And the whole church eaten out with profane-nes devoured and consume-ed with idolatrous contempt and reproche by their captivers and molesters Ps. 79 when the Feare that they fear and the God that they reverence and worship in the generation of the Iust the poore is made to distrust and to be abashed of their relying on him Ps. 1. for suffering of so great reproche That a man would think ther were no God that regarded them So complaining of the general corruption of man and of the greevous calamity of the church under the Hethen that profess not God as Ps. 74.79 for that it freats them to death beeing allmost in despaire hee prayeth for deliverance and a return of them from captivity to praise God and rejoyce and be merry again in Sion their glory their secureity confidence and Salvation Ps. 53.56 Construction Iad the letters that signify a hand are heer taken for work and also for counsel which two kindes runn through the Psalme to the handy work of captivity Leading away and bringing again arguing still ab effectu denying God by their deeds either idle or dooing wrong The Genesis is in the 4 quiescents and idle letters with the hebrews called E he vi and Grammarians the sonns of Noah or children of rest which becaus they are the letters of the Name of God and are not pronownceed they are sayd not to call upon God and to deny God in the words Iehovah lo quaraow as the Athists that will haue none of his wisdom nor any such understanding mark the fower Jehovahs and the fower Elohims mark the fower eins for a quiescent Iod. For beeing idle and dooing no good mark the vers all are gon away c. wher al fower are mentioned mark fear for one of the 4 Elohims as Ps. 53. and conclude that the mystery is in Iehovah and so in Ehevi as before PSALM XV. THou art Peter and upon this rock will I build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it How shall a yongman keep clean his way Ps. 119. b what way shall hee take for eternall life How shall hee save himself that hee fall not and that his enimyes prevaile not over him as Psal. 13. seeing the Godly are so few and good men so rare Psal. 12.14 wher is the rout and assembly of thē are they known by their dwelling or by their guests Surely the tabernacles of God are with men and hee suppeth and dine-eth and sojourneth and dwelleth with whom hee like-eth and so dwell they invisiblely with him And this tabernacle of God and Mount of holynes is nothing but the habitation of Godlynes in man after they once receiue him they dwell with God who hath him in their mindes and God dwelleth with thē that love him and keep his commandemēts and their wayes are unreproovable And for this hee wondereth that ther is any way to it or that any man can ascend to it seeing the way is so strait and strict that leadeth unto life and the entrance therinto so hard to finde What things are to be don who is the childe of Godlynes and who shall dwell with God and liue perpetually and what kinde of church shall never be mooved So hee describe-eth the church of God by the statutes therof with a promiss of eternity to the performers Ps. 133. who they are and the greatnes of their glory is expressed over and above in the 24 Psalme by the royallty of their entertainment and also as Psalme 101. The doore of righteousnes Ps. 118. and also by the fifteen Psalmes of Ascensions thither Ps. 120 c. called the Psalmes of degrees This is the way of God and of the just Ps. 25. which shall not perish Ps. 1. and the wise mans profound and sure building upon a rock that abides all wether against the sandy shallownes of the wicked in the former Psalme 14.9 1. which the flood commeth and sweepeth clean away Gen. 6.7 For the Ark and Noahs walking with God in thought word and deed an upright man This is the work of salvation which must be wrought for the inheritance of eternall life Construction The letters Tau that signify to spinn as ther is a threed of life doe heer import extortion oppression and detraction For thes all bee proper by wringing and wresting from his neighbour to diminish him Beside by the letters apart Tet is the contēptible dust of the floore rejected of all and Vau is the love of the Godly and hooking by wrong giving and receiving The Genesis is the tabernacle which is the Ark and that the word that rested upon the hills of Ararat and hee that shall abide in it is Noah to wit the quiescent or som letter of grammer while hee is just and upright Gen. 6. to his neighbour or next letter for so long shall a letter abide as his fellow can indure him and yf his behaviour faile hee is either changed or put clean out but with som token of corruption and deficiencey and this you may wel see in the two defective wordes Nathā and Laquah wher in declineing neither N nor L. can abide for offending By 3 dooings and 3 refreinings twise the like PSALM XVI WHer a mans treasure is there is his hart and what is a mans God but his cheeff delight Ps. 4 And what pleasure is ther like to salvation and where is the fullnes of Ioy but the redemption from Ignorance the light and knowledge and perfection in the Law of God a way of a virtuous life without corruption Psal. 14.15 a way of Immortality a way not of the flesh but of the Spirit a way not of worldly walking but of Godly Cariage a liveing true and everlasting way as ps 1. a moste pure and clean way both for reverence and performance ps 19 This is inward and outward Iustice consisting in sayth and love ps 25 the Grace and Truthe of the Gospell for charitablenes of intention and faythfullnes of performance in every work Now becaus this Righteousnes is the Sacrifice that is to be sacrifice-ed the Iustification of a man that will be saved Ps 4 and not any outward oblation and becaus it can double the kings dayes and preserve him that relyeth theron as Psal. 61. and that all Davids nightly consultation and his innermost Ioy and even his reines delight in the Instruction of it and that God is all his good his part his share his cup his Lot and measures of Inheritance and all moste goodly to him in his leviticall blessing and that all his birth and parentage and beginning and end of dayes is the study of the word of God like Melchisedek
rescueing and delivering is a kinde of uncrooking and unheaching of the just out of the wickeds handes Genesis Hee worketh upon the Gutturall letters and that you shall observe when you com to every one of them in the Abce for their irregularity in Grammer touching Dagesh and Sheva In Aleph hee adviseth against Anger and Ielousy which is a devouter and a consumeing fire in a man Psal. 124. which hee remedieth with patience In He he adviseth the same and hath all the Guttural letters and Resh doubled in that verse to shew the same Presumption and wrong from the wicked and their success doth eat the just for the just be perfect and regular and the wicked are irregular and outlawes In Cheth they shew their quarell they will have Cateph Pathach rapine and destroy the right rule and therfor they are rapt away and destroyed In Gnain is manifest defection by the leaving of that letter quite out of the rew as the rest are enimyes and defectives to the rule In Resh mark how Resh is sorted with all the gutturalls and how often it is doubled with them their great glory and suddain dificiencey PSALM XXXVIII BEeing once over-reached and tripped by Nathan the Prophet concerning his sinn that hee had not a word to say hee was fain to be silent at all the railing and subtile practises of Absolom his Enimy and his complices Shemei Achitophel and others lest they should upbraid him and laugh at him and his body beeing wholely distempered with the wrath of God for the same and his greeff of minde therfor so great beeing forsake-en of all that by unexpressible sighes hee is force-ed to signify his requests and desire to God that knoweth all that hee would vouchsafe to answer and still them yet because his cause is good against his Enimyes bee they never so-many hee prayeth that hee will not correct him nor be from him but be his salvation and make haste to help him Hee sheweth his sore suffering for sinn Psal. 134. through his faith and waiting for Gods salvation praying that God will not consume him with correction nor in his anger quite forsake him but with all speed help him and save him and answer him and releev him in his sorrow for confessing his sinnes Sorrow and affliction beget children unto God and with much travail and long waiting and great correction are they born and with much adoe are the righteous delivered from the body and death of Sinn and folly and wrath of God and corruption of the flesh and bondes and thralldom of Satan and all adversity to be brought to the glorious liberty of the sonnes of God and to bee raised again in the Spirit and to bee made alive again by righteousnes and forgivenes of Sinn And this for the low estate of suffering the very death and passion of a just man Like that of Iob and Ierimiah that thought no sicknes so sore as theirs So hee hath no soundnes left in all his body that hath lost a bone and is halting and alone and in need of help as Adam Gen. 2. Construction Lamed doctrine His declination by sinn his hard discipline Hee maketh himself a scholer under the rod is sorely corrected for missing his rules the Law of God that it sticketh both on his stomack on his back hoe is bowed weake bruseed hee is sad hee is sore hee is greeved his hart cryes and is removed and hee is sensles with sorrow as yf hee were aware of nothing for all parts pay for it the rage of error is such And heer hee thinketh upon Adam that ther was no help left meet for man Gen. 2. among men for freends help not but are corrupt and decâ—itfull to intangle and Enimyes hurt and are against him So hee maketh God his maister and his helper and recoverer waiting Ps. 94. for that the offence is only against him and hee only is sensible of his sorrow of his desire Thusmuch you shall perceiue by mention of all the wordes in that text of Adams wound and curious repetition of them For the Law woundes all men Gen. 2. Cheth the broken and destroyed state of sinfull man The two letters together make Lach green and fresh and lively his estate is all contrary and therfor so hee argueth upon the contrary Genesis The Gâ—ammaticall part is deficiencey When hee seeth how imperfet a scholer in the Law hee is discernes how foolish and pervers his wayes are hee calleth himself such and Heteroclite as this for all kinde of defectivenes Ther is no whole thing or health c. Ther is no ease or peace or perfection c. And this of Verbs Perfet and Imperfet the Imperfet are quiescents or defectives the one is of letters present and silent which neither heare nor speake the other of letters abolished for ill neighbourhood As freendes are not to be uâ—ed or trusted to so Enimyes are not to bee conferred with Nun is diversly defective in the Psalme and for that the number of verses agreeth with the Abce number of letters and is likewise consonant to Adams defect by his stroke with that sinfull sleep Gen. 2. This is Nah nireeh by the words in the beginning his arrows light and his hand lyeth c. All his desire and his groning c. PSALM XXXIX BY silence in the last Psalme some good things beeing forborn becaus of the wicked which now occasioneth Ieduthun as followeth to inquire how long hee can indure alive considering his correction frailty vanity and shortnes of the age of man of no abideing as Psal. 119. g k and beeing but as a strangeer or guest in the earth because hee waiteth for the Lord and is not troubled with worldly affaires hee would bee delivered from his trespasses and temptation of Gods hand and haue his correction somwhat abated before hee dyeth That hee be not a reproch to the vile and foolish seeing that correction for iniquity freats and consumeth like a moth Which as hee seeth will otherwise shorten the shortnes of his time and this with pittyfull cry and request unto the Eternall Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and his dayes are full of sorrow In the former Psalme ther is great waiting of David for the glorious liberty of the sonnes of God out of the bondage of corruption by indureing so great adversity for a godly life Heer hee considereth the vanity of the creature and the small moment of the life of man and the great and vain stirr that man makeeth in the world that hee can not be silent at But that his waiting is for nothing but for forgivenes of his trespasses and the abatement of his troubles and some refreshing ere hee dyeth And this is all his waiting covet desire that hee suffer not reproch by the vile wicked people of the world or be ashamed for the hope that hee is subject to And this for an other article