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
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
hee playeth upon that Instrument of Gath the great Goliah of Adversity and Captivity of Phelistia The construction is in the term Heth for the eigtth letter and number of the Psalme which signifyeth subjection and awe of all creatures unto Man in Shem a nown another part of speech in hebrew The Genesis is his Name the Excellency wherof is pointed at in the first and last verses also in the end of the 7. And beginning of the 9. For the nown and name set upon all creatures in heaven earth Gen 2. and the strength of lerning in the Elements to commande them PSALM IX POverty sayeth Salomon in his Parables cometh like an armed man and as it is a terrible thing so the affliction of the church and the defendour and their greevous adversity persecution and captiuity is well heer resembled by the story and person of Goliah and his death Who comming with all the odds in the world for stature yeers and weapons wherby hee seemed invincible yea even as matchless as death it self so that the state of the church and David himself now beeing at deathes doore with the terror of their own affliction and haveing noe other weapons then the Law and five bookes of Moses and their confidence in the righteousnes therof as their God and the calling upon his name for his defense and the preaching therof as the five smooth stones out of the river which hee had in the budget of his bosome and slung out of his mouth as Ps. 40. and in the name of this God of hostes of Israel hee setteth out against the Giant ther beeing no odds against God and slew him and rather as men say slew the divill for this victory hee commendeth the Iustice of Gods Iudgement and chaunteth out of his invincible Name and service of him according to the former Psalme The Iustice heerof is as they the Phelistines pretended Terror that they now meet with their match and are knocked in the head by the Prophet that feareth them by the word of God as Ps· 56. that feareth not the face of Man And this is terror for terror that man should not presume with might to oppress seeing ther is no prevailing against God And that the hethen all earthly men should know and feel their own thraldom and wretchednes by a work of their owne handes and this for the person of Enosh for a sorow-full time Gen. 4. likewise a Thanks-giveing vpon the death of that proud and mighty champion and Gods Iudgement vpon him The letter Tet doth signifye filthy durt and dust of the street or of the floore and Teta is also to sweep away Heerto is resembled the corruption of mans wayes Gen 6. and the sweeping them away by the deluge by all maner of sweeping swift condemnation of the Law wherin God doth raigne and hath his Throne Ps 29. And such is the Iudgement of God that teacheth the wicked their Lesson and saveth the Iust Gen. 6.7 the same word that drowneth the one is an Ark for the other The Genesis is Millah the other part of speech in hebrew called the word or the particle beeing neither nown nor Verb. And for to signyfye so much hee bringeth all the Abce double in two verses in the wordes the Hethen are sunk c. which wordes beginn with Tet becaus the letters are members of the word and of the Ark of Salvation called Tebhah And thus is the wickeds Iudgement from God moste Iust. They are drowned in their own corruption Only the letters Tsade and Aleph which make Tse exi for exception or Tse excretum are not at all mentioned among them Becaus thes letters make goe out of the Ark they are left out of the Ark that is the Abce Gen. 8. PSALM X. EVery prevailing is a Giant and every overcomming a man of a great stature and every Captivity a Goliah When the wicked get the vpper hand and brag of their wills and their harts desire and stand at defiance like the Phelistins by the mouth of Goliah then the world goeth hard and it is a sore and a painfull time and the people of God are in a sorrowfull case So now they beeing wonderfully dejected terryfyed and daunted and takeing themselues almoste forsaken call upon God their fortress as Ps. 9. as yf hee wer now out of hearing and out of sight also And becaus they need incouragemant out of the word their request to God is that their Enimyes may bee over-reached and taken in their own reaches and drawn with the nets of their wicked thoughtes seeing they haue no thought of God but blaspheme all parts of his name thinking to destroy the poore unregarded and to slay the innocent and harmless in secret and to draw them by heapes by their terror and deceipt against the Iudgement and power of God For pride of their prosperity they can not see God nor his determination so that as hee lyeth in secret Gods purpose may bee ever unknown to them and seeing wickednes deceipt and terror is all his power that God would serch it all out and break his malicious arme and help the poore that rely on him And as God abideth not the Hethen in his land so that hee would listen and graunt the request of the meek that they may injoy their possession according to the Promiss and to make theÌ„ stout and couragious and to defend the poor and coÌ„trite Orphans that the earthly men bee no more a terror to theÌ„ Prosperity makes theÌ„ proud and pride makes them without judgement and so they blaspheme that part of his Name Besides for Gods patience they question his power and blaspheme an other part of his Name And also thirdly presume against the everlasting Iustice of God that condemneth all the hethen and expelleth them out of the inheritance of the Lords Dominions as Ps. 2.114 that heer hee would answer them with his word and put a good courage in their harts against all these that no cowardize or terror assail them any more Construction Iod the tenth is a hand The hand of the wicked and the hand of God conteineth all The wickeds hand is mentioned in reckoning all kinde of corruption of man Gen. 6. and excess of wickednes in thought in word and in their wayes Gods hand is an utter destruction of them and a revenge of wrong and releeff of the oppressed according to Ps. 9. Ther is nothing but ill in the arme of the wicked and his confidence is to remain still becaus hee is in no ill he prayeth that God would break this Arme of his by findeing out the ill that is in him to wit rang in rashang ill in the terme of a wicked man The Genesis is in Iod GentÃle the nations feele the judgement of God and are wipe-ed clean out of his land for ever according to the work of their own handes Ps. 9. For as the ninth handled the judge and judgement so this Psalme handleth the
Gutturalls perish haue their reward and by the power of the Eternall the Quiescents are preserved Peace and silence c. note the quiescents PSALM XXIX THe word of God is mighty in operation it divideth between the marrow and the bone Out of the light of salvation Ps. 27. and knowledge in the Law of God riseth admirable glory and mighty confidence for edification and sustenance in the spirit as Ps. 28. That the glory and power therof may be moste famous as Ps. 76. wher the very sound therof breaketh the weapons and maketh an end of the warr by the chideing of the moste high in his dwelling place and sanctuary Salem Zion For exceeding lustre and strength heerof it is called a Kingdom as Ps. 143.144.145 and heer therfore the effect therof is called a King and God of glory to raigne for ever as Ps. 24.19 And this is for the voice and spirit of the word it self and possession of the Scriptures called the waters and the great waters and the flood which hee occupyeth with such majesty and such commande with such aflonishment of Doctrine such terror to the Princes and tossing of the mountaines the Cedars and Lebanon and all the lofty ones setting their hartes and all the woodes on fire as in Cadesh and to tremble with great greeft makeing all things naked and revealing of all secrets discovering of al hartes and greeving the great deer of the forrest for want of cover And becaus hee so shineth in his temple and so disquieteth his Enimyes and giveth his people such blessing of strength peace beyond the power of all Gods that hee willeth all Gods and princes and mighty and godly men the children of the Gods and Ministers to ascribe all power and glory to him for ever the glory of his name with all humility in his decent sanctuary So for the might and majesty of Gods word in the Scriptures called the waters Ps. 68.150 and his thundring out of his miraculous Acts therin that plague the great kings in the wildernes of Zin in Cadesh 38. yeers by the firey flames of the Law and becaus all that hee speaketh in his temple is glory and becaus the Eternalls throne is upon the flood therof wher hee sitteth ever king and giveth strength end peace to his people as Psal. 93.147 hee wisheth all glory and strength to be asâ—cribed to the Eternall and his name as Ps. 96. and great worship in his sanctuary Construction Caph a hand yeeld or give ascribe or offer Caph to bow bend or worship for adoration and oblation of the Priests and Ministers Caphah a branch when the trees be all shivered and the woods made all bare of boughes Iob. 15. Exod. 9. Tet of Tete to sweep away all Isai. 14. and this by the moste terrible Meteors to shew the force and fiercenes of the word of God Therfor that they should yeeld him the glory of calling upon him with all glory Genesis The quiescency is in Iehova that mastereth the watâ—rs as Noah in the Ark. The double doctrine of Dagesh in begad cepheth to be woren in the Ephod one kinde of Dagesh on the one shoulder and the other on the other by thes wordes yeeld c. glory and strength Dagesh tiphereth and dagesh chazak they must adore with decency The voice c. is with might and with majesty The glorious giving of the Law in mount Sina called the waters Exod. 19. Deut. 5. the strength and quiescency of his church to make his name and the calling upon him moste glorious Iehova or Hovah Isai. 47. by calamities and comfort Hee tells Iehevah 18 times over and El twise to shew the weight and glory of his name Jah which make 20. Mark the repetition PSALM XXX HEE that ascended is hee that descended first into the lower parts of the earth In the eighteenth Psalme David was baptised in trouble and in the nineteenth born by the word and made the childe of God by reformation and from thence strengthened and confirmed by his Name for which hee giveth all glory to God And in this Psalme hee is received to glory the greatest glory of God beeing his resurrection Before the loss of the Ark David was but over shooes and wetshod in affliction yet hee made his recovery great and his deliverance miraculous but now hee is up to the neeck yea over head and eares in hevynes when hee hath lost his charge his strength and ornament and salvation So that hee meaneth heer an infinit magnifying of God for his resurrection out of such a sorrow beeing as a poor ship wract man of all his confidence For ther is no descent so low as into a mans enimyes hands and no captivity so miserable or any misery so greevous as the whole Churches to a Defendour as is seen by Moses And haveing lost a sure estate and feeling the horror of Gods wrath and destruction and fallen in this terrible pit of distresses and affliction as seeing no way but death before him and considering well that there would com no profit by the death of a poor and wreched sinner but rather by his conversion and considering that God is not for ever angry as Ps. 77. and that there is Ioy and life to bee in Gods favour and likeing Ps. 34. hee turneth wholely to God for help and cryeth out of this great deep for redemption and forgivenes as Ps. 130. and obteineth to bee remitted and salved raised again and quickned that hee may sing and dance for joy and that his own Glory may for ever prais him for this shifting of him out of such miserable and sinfull corruption into such a glorious liberty again That hee ought for ever to worship him and Say Death wher is thy sting and hell wher is thy victory And for this hee so mightily extolleth God And as all the starrs in heaven differ in glory so the greatest glory in mans profession and protestation of religion is his resurrection from base corruption And therfor that ther is no way in heaven or earth to extoll it or thank him worthyly And this much for his dedication 2. Sam. 5.6 Construction Lamed for lerning or truth he maketh the light and life of the world Io. 1. hee dealing by the contrary as by the termes of darknes of adversity the pit horror Anger terror night mentioning heerby the lamentable and unprofitable state of darknes or ignorance that is intended From whence S. Mathew hath the children of the Kingdom which should be the children of light shall becom utterly ignorant by term utter Darknes and sorrow Which is nothing but the state of Ignorance Math 8. When God hideth his face and his glory shineth not and the Scriptures are not cleer For this hee prayeth for illumination and his glory to worship a right which is the brightnes of lerning to declare the truth His heavynes and his reviveing is from his God eternall Iehovah his virtuous remedy of Compassion marck the office
would so fain have refreshed healed and released The wrath of God for sinn causeth all diseases so hee falleth into an enumeration of them by the shakeing cleaving breaking and dissolution of the earth Which is for their infidelity their strife among themselves their sedition muteny and discord loosnes and unconstancy and because they have been put to much hardnes and were made giddy faint harted with the cup of their adversity Ier. 48. and could not tell what to doe they now beeing in this Acatastasy and unsetlednes and not knowing what to think hee remembreth by Gods word what Nations were to com in and that the world was not quite at an end with them but as the Priests lips preserves knowledge so they yeld also faith Therfor hee prayeth for Gods right hand called his Ministry their oracle and advise to save them From whence they haue this assurance from the word that God will fall to shareing of the world and to partition of the Nations to inlarge the borders of the Church That Shechem should bee divideed and Succoth measured That hee would haue Gilead and Manasses his own Ephraim should bee confirmed unto him and Iudah should be written and conveyed That hee would wash his feet and take possession in Moab And put off his shoos and take his rest in Edom. And triumph keep holy day in Phelistia And out of this promiss the Church doth hope for victory over all their Enimyes For this hee thanketh God for their salvation and prayeth still for his most prosperous help to tread down the Serpent as Ps. 92. and vainquish their Enimyes for them as Ps. 108. Construction Samek to uphold it is heer taken all along for help and salvation as Isai. 63. as O consider and help c. and O give us help And arm thy beloved c. God sheweth the Assistantes and the strength of the Church when it felt all kinde of weakenes when God stood not to them but forsook them Ther is nothing shewed but dissolution and susteyning And that God is their onely stay Exodus From Isa. 34. To kill Gods Enimyes is good service so that this great slaughter is counted for a sacrifice as that in Bozra and Edom according to the title See Ier. 49. Ezech. 25.35 Iehovah Nissi Exod. 17. God his standard PSALM LXI DAvid haveing fled out of the land for Absolom and beeing now faint and feeble harted in his old age and allmoste out of the world also for greeff of hart because hee was absent farr from the Church of God prayeth God as hee had been his relye and strong tower from the Enimyes which is the instruction of the Ark that hee would safe-conduct him by that highe Rock also the word as Ps. 27.18 to his Tabernacle That ther hee might now dwell for ever relyeing under his winges which is the Cherubs his Mercey And as God giveth possession to them that fear him the Israelites after 40 yeers in the wildernes so that hee would hearken to his wishes now after his reigne of 40 yeers and ad abundance of yeers more unto them that hee might abide still in the presence of God preserved by loveing kindenes and truth his portion his meat his Manna And as Ps. 81. paying hiâ— vowes and chaunting his Name for ever After the Tower the Ark and mercy seat Rock and Manna And seeing by the Scriptures the way is to pleas God and get up to his tabernacle and dwell with him as Ps. 15. and to obtein the habitation of godlynes and Mount of holynes and heighth of sanctification as in the Psalmes of degrees which are their shelter and tower of defens and safety from the floodes of wicked Enimyes by the quiet waters of refreshing flowing from them Ps. 23. When Davids hart fainted hee knocketh at this Rock and prayeth for direction thither to receiue a heavenly possession with them that fear God and length of dayes and all requests by the sustenance therof the way of godlynes grace and truthe Psal. 25. That feeding heerupon as upon unperishing Manna hee may bee allwayes preserved by God to serve him And this is the spirituall rock of Christ that followed the Host and served Israel and was the Exodus and Passage and conveyance of them 1. Cor 10. Construction Samec is heer taken passively as Nismac to rely or lean upon As in a feeble estate by repeating the word rely And the reckoning up of all his stayes the rock for a guide Tabernacle and tower and cherubs and kindenes and truthe for preservation Aleph for instruction or education is signifyed by the rock tower whose top reacheth to heaven and is a name exalted so much in all the world by prayer and prais Sa of Nasa both the letters to lift up Exodus They that fear the Name of God shall have the possession of all that they long for then vowes upon condition are due for hearkening to their wishes they must make unto God full satisfaction and pay their vowes and this serveth for a sacrifice in the wildernes also as by the doubling of the word vowes His vow heer is an everlasting devotion yf God will give him dayes As by the termes of eternity so oft repeated God his Rock 1. Cor. 10. For his susteining PSALM LXII ILL Servants marr good children The subtilty and reach of Ahitophel Davids counseller hit upon the pride and vanity of Absolom his sonn as Ps. 55. and puffed him up to rebellion to rob his father of his subjects and kingdom The matter now beeing at open hostility and they in counsell agreeing to a murtherous practise upon his person for it yet David by a cleer judgement faileth not of his faith and trust in God nor doubteth of his salvation as Ps. 42. but is sure of his redeemer Iob. 19. and that hee shall not bee overthrowen bâ—caus they bee lovers of falshood and dissembling traitors that seek his life the Godhead of truth and Iustice and the strength of the word called his rock beeing the glory of his salvation and relye and willeth to all his people that from their hartes they utter the same profession And seeing the children of men are more fals and light than vanity it self they should not trust to bee rich or strong by robbery or oppression Ps. 17. becaus all strength is Gods that still prevaileth and Kindenes that rewardeth every man aright which is according to his request Ps. 55. to his Enimyes half their dayes by a desperat end to Ahitophel for miscarrying of his wisdom and the foolish end of Absolom for his vain hope The Church as it is Catholicque and also holy so it doth hold either by the Law or by the Promiss By the Law it standeth in performance and that is impossible for the flesh by reason of weaknes and sinn and condemnation and death enter therupon and the letter killeth which is the face of the church but the minde and spirit of God which quickneth every