and this teaching and hearing is the Sabbath work of refreshing and reviveing the miserable and dead-comfortless soule of man ps 113. This is the food of the congregation the miraculous sustenance out of the Law and Testaments that lasteth from meal to meal with full cupbordes for ever as ps 144. That whereof every disciples basket and his store is blessed with increas and for this is the day to be kept holy and sanctifyed for the presence of God and his word in it that sanctifyeth the hearers Which presence yf God vouchsafe not the people are forsaken and perish for want of his kingdom Now that in this psalme hee may seem to sanctifie the Sabbath and to keep it holy he layeth down precisely all the circumstance of his behaviour and the worship and keeping of it and that most from ps 92. that hee may seem more capable of this food and sanctifycation of the spirit by the manner the presence the place the end and the reason of all As thus he will worship God with all his heart he will chant him out before the gods and Angels and judges hee throwes himself prostrate at his temple hee worships his Name for his loveing kindenes and his faithfullnes and that because he hath made his promise greater than all his Name ps 12. Now becaus his worship is so perfect hee desireth to bee heard in the day and time of his calling and that he would sustein with great strength in his minde and releev him largely That all the kings of the world might likewise worship God when they have him and his wordes and sing of his wayes and of his great glory which are his miraculous and wonderfull woâ—ks of kindenes also of his promiss and faithfulnes Now becaus he is high and beholdeth the low and the mean ones psal 113 and seeing hee is lofty and kenneth farr and his word findeth men out every wher hee prayeth now that God would bestow his heavenly food and bread of sustenance uppon him That as we labour all the week to rest the sabbath so that we may be fed in the sabbath to bee able to labour all the week That is that of a man in great distress and in the midst of sorrows he would make him a cheerfull man and revive him and being besieged round about with adversity that he would lay his hand upon his enemies face and blindefold them and by the prosperous and dexterous right hand of his ministry save him And that God who is the onely doer about him and his kindenes is for ever would not now forsake the works of his own hands and creatures of his Law and that he would never fail them with his kingdom that bringeth all things with it but let him see the fulnes and pleasure and joy at his right hand beeing his portion and cup and inheritance ps 16.116 Construction Quoph to compass the kindenes of God about him to strengthen him in affliction giâ—deth him Mark Gnoz and Zarrah seven seventies and 490 ps 25.34.119 see kindenes repeated Ion. 2. Lamed Lerning is heer a larger extent of Gods Name it is all his Law and his word and his work and his way which is grace and truth that shineth after him by effect that with his glory ps 29. putteth out his enemyes eyes spieth the afflicted being never so deep or farr from him to releeve him It commendeth the reading of the Law and Prophets and for this the word saying and Name and hand is repeated Cheth to prostrate by bowing down c. and lowly c. all his humble supplication and adoration in deep distress ps 5. Is. 18. all the letters qualach from whence qualachah a caldron for affliction Deuteronomy his dayly worship and psalming in the Temple can be nothing but of his mervilous acts of grace towards his church and creatures and of the life of the word that feedeth them and disgrace to his enemies Ier. 20. Mark the word worship for a repetition or confession Hee fullfilleth all his saying and all by his saying PSALM CXXXIX IN this psalme beginning with Trespass hee sheweth by the stones of triall in the brest-plate of judgement described as ps 149. by the law is a mans life spanned out and made square every way that God is made privy to them all If it be in position by lyeing down and riseing up hee knoweth their miscarriage therein If it bee in their travail or their rest hee keepeth round about all their wayes and pryeth into every trick of them If it be in speech or language hee knoweth every word Hee besets them round about they cannot go forth nor back but his hand is uppon them which is their conscience of sinne against the law which he calleth a wonderfull and a higher knowledge than he can attain unto from the sight of which trespass and conscience of sinne becaus ther is no escapeing neither in heaven nor hell nor beyond sea nor in the dark whatsoever hee committeeth by imagination or worship but hee is every wher with them and alwaies in sight of them and hee can no way out-goe him or hide from him nay that God possessed his reins before he was born and becaus he was fearfully hidden and he knew that his works were wonderfull and that hee saw his bones though they were made in secret and that hee was set together under the earth and his clue and windeing and his dayes recorded before he was born now for this hee devides himself from the wicked deerly to think of God as a father and to worship and honour him for his creation and that his cheeff and deerest and most honourable thoughts are mighty and wonderfull many of him even above the sand of the sea in number seeing as long as hee is awake hee is never out of minde of him Hee will have no fellowship with any wickednes with such as rebell and risâ— against God in fals and vain imagination idolatrous trespass Ps. 119. S. And throughly hateth all the enemies of God and they to him are for deadly Enimyes And all the sinister side for Sin ps 109.119 sh. and hath God on his right hand as ps 16. to shew his conversion repentance and amendment Now seeing nothing can be hid from God and from his all seeing presence in his Law and conscience but they shall bee visited to the third and fourth generation hee prayeth to bee searcheed and his heart and thoughts to be tryed and known throughly to see yf ther bee any way or work of idolatrie or sorrowfull trespass in him Yf ther bee that hee would lead him the way and work of eternity and amendment of life and forgive him And this is a resurrection which the Law performeth by long looking into the hearts and consciences of men to restore them and deliver them out of the bonds of sin and death and hell and the divell and from all slavery wherinto they are sunk by offences yf ther be
HAPPY is the man whos Trespasse is forgiuen and his Sinn concealed whom the ETERNALL chargeth not with Iniquity and in whos minde is no deceipt I CRYED dayly till I was hoarse and my bones Withered for thy hand was heavy vpon mee and my Moisture is overthrouwn as with a great Sommers drought surely I shewed thee my Sinnes and concealed not mine Iniquities I meant to confesse my Sinnes vnto the ETERNALL and thou forgavest the Iniquity and my Sinne surely Therefore let every Godly-One pray vnto thee when thou mayest be found lesse when Trobles arise they cannot com at him ô thou that art my Skonse and Hideing-place preserve mee from Destresse rescue them that CRY and gard mee suâ—ely I vvill vvise thee and teach thee vvhat VVAY to goe and vvill tend on thee vvith mine eyes if yee be not like a Horse and Asse voyd of all vnderstanding to be tyed vvith bitts in their mouthes and bridles on their heads to keep them from thee For the Sorrowes of the Wiâ—ked are great and many but he that TRVSTETH in the ETERNALL GRACE and LOVEING-KINDENES shall environ him Now reioyce and be glad in the ETERNALL yee IVST-ONES and Tâ—iumph all yee that be of an vpright minde XXXIII TRIVMPH in the ETERNALL all yee that be IVST for the PRAYSE of Vpright men is goodly sing to the ETERNALL with the Harp play vnto him with ten-stringed Viols sing a New song vnto him and play your loudest Musicque For the WORD of the ETERNALL is moste certain and all his WORKES are sure The ETERNALL loveth IVSTICE and RIGHTE and all the erth is full of his GRACIOVS GOODNES By the VVORD of the ETERNALL the Heavens vvere made and by his Breth all their Host he heaped vp the vvaters of the Sea and layed vp the bottomlesse Deeps in Treasures Stand in aw of the ETERNALL and feare him all people of the world for what hee sayth that shall bee and what soever hee Appointeth that shall stand The ETERNALL frustrateth the counsell of the Hethen and bringeth the peoples devises to nothing But the Counsel of the ETERNALL standeâ—h for ever and his Devises indure still from one age to another and happy is the Nation that hath the ETERNALL their GOD and the People whom hee chuseâ—h for his Inheritance The ETERNALL LOOKETH out of Heaven from his dweâ—ling Seat vpon all the Children of men that dwell in the world hee that both formed their hartes and is cunning in all their WORKES and Loe A King is not saved by the greatnes of his Army nor a Strong-man deliuered by his great strength A Horse is a vain thing for Salvation and cannot free for all his great Might But the EYE of the ETERNALL is vpon them that feare him and vvait for his LOVING-KINDENES To deliuer them from Death and releeve them in Famine Our Soul waiteth for â—he ETERN hee is our Help and Shield of Defence and because our Hart is delighted in him and our whole TRVST is in his holly NAME let thy mercy ô ETERNALL be vpon vs as our hope is in thee XXXIV A Psalme of David vpon his changing of his Behaviour before Abimelek or Achish King of Gath then when hee banished him hee went his way I Will ever thank the ETERN and allways PRAIS him with my mouth I my selfe will glory in him that the Lowly may be glad to heare it come magnify the ETERN with mee let vs extoll his NAME together for I sought out for the ETERN and hee answered mee and deliuered mee from all my Terrors Therefore let them look cheerfully vpon him and not be ashamed for this poore oppressed one in his affliction CRYED and the ETERN hard him and saved him out of all his Destresses The Angel of the ETERN will pitch about them that FEAR him and release them Now consider and mark how GOOD the ETERNALL is and how HAPPY is the MAN that relyeth on him Feare the ETERNALL all his Saintes For they shall vvant nothing that FEARE him the Lions vvhelps shall goe lean for vvant of meat and pine avvay for hunger but they that SEEK the ETERN shall not vvant any thing that is good Com then my Children and harken to mee and lett mee TEACH you the FEARE of the ETERNALL If you loue to liue long and loue to see many dayes Keep your Tonges from ill communication and your lips from speaking Deceipt medle vvith nothing that is ill but doe that vvhich is good seek after Peace and pursue it For the ETERN looketh tenderly to the IVST and hath a tender eare to their shouting VVhen they Crye hee heereth them and deliuereth them from all their Destresses But hee will look angry toward them that doe ill and will cutt off their Remembrance out of the Earth The ETERN is neer to them that be broken-harted and will save them of oppressed mindes for many are the Woes of the IVST-ONE but the ETER will deliuer him from them all and will keep him that not a bone of him shall be broken Som Mischeeff shall make an end of the Wicked and slay him and they that hate the IVST shall waste away but the ETERNALL will redeem his Servants life and none that relye on him shall be waste-ed XXXV Of DAVID DOE thou maintaine my Quarell ô ETERNALL and fight thou my Battell ô take vp thy Shield and Buckler and com and help mee draw out thy Speare and arme thee to meet my Pursuers Say to my life I will be thy SALVATION Let them be ashamed that seek my life and retire with sharp reproche that thinke mee ill and be like dust before the winde and the Angel of the ETERN driveing them let their WAY be in dark and slippery Place-es and the Angel of the ETERN to pursue them at the heeles Because they haue hid a Net in the Pitt for mee vndeserved and vndermined for my Life without a Cause Bring a RVINE on them that they be not ware of and let their owne Net that they have layed take themselues and by it let them fall into the same Ruine So my Soul shall be glad and reioyce in the SALVATION of the ETERNALL All my bones shall coÌ„fesse There is none like
Song A Mascil of David VVhen the Zipps SAYDE to Saul David is hid vvith vs. SAVE mee and Cleer mee ô GOD by thy victorious NAME ô GOD heare my PRAYER and hearken to the WORDES of my Mouth for cruell Enimyes are risen against mee and seek my life that put not GOD before them surely Behold let my LORD GOD that is my HELPER and is vvith them that vphold my Life bring the Evill to my Tormentors and by thy TRVTHE dissolue them That I may freely Sacrifice vnto thee set out the GOODNES of thy NAME ô ETERNALL that hath delivered mee out of all DISTRESSE that mine eyes may look vpon mine Enimyes LV. For the Cheeff in Song Musicque A Mascil of DAVID HEARE my PRAYER ô GOD and conceale not thy selfe fâ—om my pittifull SVPPLICATION listen to mee and consider mee that am setled in my Complainte and CRYE out for the vrgeing Talk of the wicked Enimye which Attempt to Anger and Greeve mee My Hart is in paine within mee the Threatnings of death are faâ—len vpon mee feare and Trembling is within mee and Terror doth overhelle mee And I SAYED J would J had winges like a Dove that I might flye and have Rest beholde I would remoove farre off and Lodge in the Wildernes Surely J would soon escape from the Tempestuous Whirlewinde O LORD diuide their Tonges and Devoure them for the INIVRY and CONTENTION which I see in the Citty Day and Night they goe aboute it vpon the VValles thereof and Sorrovv and PAINE is vvithin it Ther is a miserable CALAMITY with in it DECEIPT and GVILE dravve not out of the streets For it was not an Enimye that defameed mee that J should beare it nor my Foe that hated mee that made Much a doe against mee that J might be hid from him but thou a wrech of mine owne Ranck my wonted Companion and my familiar Acquaintance wee went in Company into the House of GOD and took sweet Counsell together Let Him put Death vpon them and let them goe dovvn to Hell aliue for MICHEEFFS are in the midle of their Dvvelling Houses I CALL vnto GOD the ETERNALL to SAVE mee Euening and Morning and at Noon doe I Complaine and Cry out that hee vvill hear my VOICE by PEACE ransome my Life from the vvarr vvhich J haue vvith many that are vvith mee The ALMIGHTY GOD hear and ansvver them and Hee that Jnhabiteth their presence Surely They haue noe Changes and they Feare not GOD. Hee giues his hand vvith his Freend in League and breaks his couenant the vvordes of his Mouth are smoother then Butter his Hart being all vvarr they are Softer then Oyle yet are they naked Svvordes Cast thy Prouidence vpon the ETERN and hee vvill content thee And I doe TRVST in thee O GOD bring THEM dovvn to the Pitt of Corruption and let not Murtherers and Treacherours men atteine to halfe their Time LVI For the Cheeff vpon Ionath-elem of the Foreiners A Mictam of David When the Phelistines had hold on him in Gath. HAVE Pitty on mee ô GOD for Man devoureth mee dayly fighteing to oppresse mee my Tormentors gape dayly they being exceeding many that fight against mee When I was afraid I put my TRVST in thee in -- GOD I praise his WORDE in GOD I put my TRVST I feare not what flesh shall doe vnto mee They are much mooved dayly because of mee for mee all their DEVISES are for MICHEEFF They lye in vvaite and lurk in secret and observe my steps as looking for my Life O GOD put them to flight for their MOLESTATION and in thine Anger overthrow the Nations Counte my REMOOVINGS ô GOD and put my TEARES in they Botle Be they not in thy reckoning THEN when mine Enimyes turne back when I call then this I know that GOD is with mee In GOD I PRAYSE his WORDE in the ETERNALL J PRAYSE his WORD in GOD I put my TRVST I feare not what man shall doe vnto mee I will pay thee Thanke-Offrings ô GOD and thy Vowes that I haue made thee because thou hast delivered my person from Death and my feet from scatering to walke before GOD in the LIVEING LIGHT LVII For the Cheeff DESTROYE NOT A MICTAM of David vpon his flyeing from Saul into the Cave HAVE Pitty on mee ô GOD for on thee doth my SOVLE rely and in the shadow of thy winges I wholely RELYE till CALAMITY be past I CALL vnto GOD my SOVERAIGNE the ALMIGHTY that doth all for mee That hee vvould send his LOVEING KINDENES and his TRVTHE from Heauen and saue mee from the Reproche of my Devourer Surely My Soule is among Lions I lye among inflamed Lions men vvhose teeth are speares and arrovves and their tonges sharp svvordes O GOD be thou extolled aboue the Heavens and thy GLORY over all the Earth When they set Nets for my feet hee clipped my SOVLE they haue digged Pittes before mee and they are fallen in the midle of them Surely My Hart is ready ô GOD my Hart is ready to SING PSALMES I will vp betime with my GLORY my Lute and my Harp and thank thee ô LORD among the people and LAVDE thee among the Nations For the GREATNES of thy LOVING-KINDENES to the Heavens and thy TRVTHE even to the cloudes Be thou extolled O GOD aboue the Heavens and thy GLORY over all the Earth LVIII For the Cheeff DESTROYE not A Mictam of DAVID WHAT indeed will yee never speak the TRVTHE will ye never IVDGE RIGHT ô Human men and will you still in your heartes work wrong and in the world weigh INIVSTICE with your handes The WICKED stray even from the bearing and ERR as sonn as they be out of the wombe Speakeing FALSLY Their Burning is like the Stinging of a Serpent like the Stinging of a deaff Adder that hath his eares stopped and cannot be charmed by the wiseest Coniurer O GOD break their Teeth in their mouthes and dash the lawes of the Lions whelps in pecce-es ô ETERNALL that the Arrowes that hee draweth may be shunned that they may goe like water and be broke-en Let him goe like a melting Snaile like the falling of a Woman let them never see the
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
With speaking against it or denieing it Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass or invireon for the kindenes of God that doth allwayes stand about the faithfull and protecteth them and helpeth them and comforteth them that trust in him Ps. 32.33 Quotou they are yrksom lothsom and tedious as are the Images that ther is no use of For ther is no light in us but in the Law of God that is the makeer of heaven and earth See the repetition God thrise for the opposeing of Imagees God can doo all things and they nothing Eternall for affection and preservation of the whole church Trust help and defense c. Prais Iah 15. by the works of Iehovah and for the spirit therof that images have not Ps. 135.149 Deuteronomy The reciteing and Rehersall heer is the generall blessing of God for his grace and the wonderfull light of his truthe through faith Mark the repetition Israel Aaron and all that fear God bless Eternall twise abridged Jah for Jehovah heaven upon you twise c. For multiplyeing of his grace for ever And this serveth for an admiration of the wonderfull way of God Imagees and dead men can say nothing to it it belongs to the liveing to register the Acts of the Eternall That they may bee of blessed memory and have a fruitfull posterity Consider the infinite increas and fructifyeing in Egypt Deut. 10. Num. 2. According to the Name of Ioseph in phrase of adding as Act. 2. And his blessing Gen. 49. Deut. 33. As the like is in the next of Iosuah in phrase of saveing Dealing upon the story as it goes PSALM CXVI THis psalme is joined to the former by shewing why the Name of God should bee so glorifyed above all as Ps. 92. And the effect of calling upon him for at what time so ever hee calleth in what distress so ever hee bee and whatsoever hee requesteth it is readily graunted and hee is heard and reveeled When for misâ—rable distress and greeff the very pangs of death and the grave had fallen upon him and had hold of him as Psal. 18. that hee doubted of life and hee was quite exhausted and spent as David Psal. 142. hee prayeth for life and hee was holpen that is the Everlasting that is just and kinde in all things of his wayes and works and preserveth the simple ones by his word as Ps. 19. saveed him When hee was so spent with affliction and misery that no promiss of life or salvation could possess him or comfort him and all that was promissed was incredible unto him and seemed unpossible and yet for the deer respect of his saintes hee savâ—ed him delivering him from death and pain and wandering to walk before God and his Saintes in immortality For this grace hee professeth the love of God and willeth his minde and soule to bee content and at quiet and throughly satisfyed and take rest seeing God hath dealt so bountifully with him as nothing more is to bee demanded nor any thing can bee a sufficient reward for his good turns so doubled and trebled upon him Therfor hee will take the Scriptures the book of the Law of the promiss of the Covenant and all the doctrine called the book of salvation and from thence throughout them all wassail and call upon the Name of God Ps. 119. Q. and sacrifice his devotion in Sermons of Thanks unto him in presence of all his people in witnes therof and willeth him to bee praised And as hee is his Minister and servant at his right hand and sonn of his handmaid the Church hee requesteth that hee may bee loosed and at liberty to doo the same accordingly Now seeing God calleth his sonn the Church out of Egypt heer is likewise their invocation the mercey of God upon them in redeeming them from sorrow and bringing them home to Eden their promissed rest of Canaan the gift of the Nations and their contentment and love and thankfullnes for the same to the study and contemplation of the Law of God for the love therof For their continuall succour and satisfaction safe conduit and comfort by the righteousnes and glory and pureity therof as Ps. 19. recovering them even from the chaines and thralldoom of ignorance and pit of despaire by his miraculous grace and reconciliation to serve him in all perfet knowledge and understanding in the Church and Paradise of God for ever wherto they are also thankfull and devoteed above measure And seeing all thes may well content hee willeth his soul to turn to her rest shewing how bountifull God hath dealt with him and resolving to pay ample vowes for the same Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to invireon or compass is heer dilateed by snares and torments and bonds and misery strict affliction and with releas and deliverance the opposit terms Iod a hand for death and hell and bondes that apprehended him and had hold of him Vav a crook hath the same sens but by way of saveing redeemeing and deliveringe and pulling him out of the snares and grave of affliction c. Hee would fain bee loosed that hee might serv him becaus hee is his servant See the repetition The three letters make Quaju they vomited hee dealeth on the contrary which is his love and good digestion of the good turns and merceyes of God upon him Which agree well with the godly by their deliverance when they call upon him Ier. 25. in so much that they mean to make him recompense by the thankfull service of him The Mercifull Eternall Jah the Name of Iehovah is fifteen times repeated Hee dealeth heer upon Ghimel as in the 103. And Iah and therfor ther want three verses of the A B C. Mark diligently the repetition and the kindes of instruments Deuteronomy Hee will call and speak and preach much of the Name of God and celebrate and proclaim his wonderfull merceyes by daily service offering and sacrifice for a recitation For hee redeemed them from slaveish death of Egypt and satisfyed them and gave them rest by Iosua by phrase of helping or saveing Mark the words Name Call beseech death liveing bountifull good turns Eternall for merceyfull Gratious invocation servant pay vowes in the sight of his people doubled in the place of rest Heb. 4. They make earnest heer of their delusion of Pharoh by their excuse of departure Ex. 4.5 c. PSALM CXVII THis Psalme by grace in the last psalme reaching to the kindenes and truthe Psal. 115. for which Gods name is so laudable and glorious and so to psal 92. wher it is to bee chaunted out for it and seeing it lighteth upon a seventh and therfor to require a rest as also for sanctification of the seventh yeer after the forty from Aegypt with a Sabath work of rest for the land according to the 47. dayes rain before the entering the Ark also for the number of the subdueed nations beeing seven which the loveing kindenes of God and his faithfullnes overcame and the strength
the Sunn but to bee suppressed for ever which is the cursed groveling of the wicked in the Ground never to look up beeing ashameed of the sunn And his Enimyes licking of the dust as Ps. 72. And for his Malice that as soon as the pot is over that it may buâ—n so that his own rancor may burn him and consume him as soon as hee is offended The end is that the Iust may bee cheered for his victory even his faith that his Enimy is ashameed of all his wayes and hath no fruit or comfort of them and that ther is fruit and reward for the just that they are revenge-ed of the wicked by the judgement of God that payeth every man according to his work as Ps. 62. And this from thes wordes of the Curs Cursed art thou above all creatures upon thy belly shalt thou goe and dust shalt thou eat all dayes of thy life Gen. 3. Construction For Nun defective hee speaketh of a generall defection in the sinning partes the tong the eares the hart and handes The tong is tyed from good and so are the eares stopped for hearing of good the minde is all buissyed about wrong and the handes with injury And all that they pronounce is nothing but error and falshood Therfor that they may be made defect in their pronunciation by breaking of their teeth and their Iawes and their arrowes according to the letter Heth to break Another defection is in consuming and another to bee an abortive never to bee any thing or never born Another that as soon as they live and have life they bee tormented Is. 9. for the two letters Nach for rest as they be all straying and erring and will not be instructed so that they may bee restless The whole subject is all of wrong Exodus Hee dealeth heer upon the privative The sacrifice and burnt offering of the children of wrathe for a defect of all righteousnes to oppose the sacrifice therof as Psal. 4. Deut. 33. that all wrong dealing may stopp his mouth For hee concludeeth that ther is a reward of righteousnes as Rom. 6. Mat. 6. Gen. 4. And as the wicked are wrong in all their actions so is their end utter destruction and that by a righteous judgement revenge upon them even in the earth So among the rest such sacâ—ifice also they used in the wildernes Gods â—amed judges c. by the first and last wordes and God the God of revenge as Ps. 94. PSALM LIX VPon thy belly shalt thou goe and dust shalt thou eat all dayes of thy life The divill like a roring lion seeketh to devour all hee can To this text hee bringeth the strong appetite of the Hethen to deuour the church of God and Sauls appetite to the life of David and thus they goe all upon the belly like hungry dogs about the town to satisfy themselves with the lives of the just Their appetite is sharp they lye in wait moste secretly and bable much with their mouthes they slay him with proud words behinde his back Ps. 94. but God sets him before their face as Ps. 92. and wills them and commands them not medle with his people that have their trust and confidence in him and laughs at their secrecy and promisseth â—o preserve him Against these hee prayeth God the Churches Lord and Defendour â—o quash them and debase them and prostrate them and subject them by his power to bring them down and subdue them and powre them strait along as durt in the street as Ps. 18. And that none may hear them none may take them up none may saue them none may pitty them that they may never rise again to afflict him And that God would make runagates of them and vagabundes like Cain and bring them to the lowest degree and scatter them as dust before the winde as Ps. 1.68 That their state may bee a cursed state And as pride goeth before the fall so that by their pride like Lucifer they may bee takeen and cast down into hell as accursed and that the cursses of their own mouthes and ill wishes towards him and proud pursuit of him for his life and their bloody mindes may all com home to themselves as Ps. 63.64 and work their own destruction and consume them And that God would in this very rage destroy them wherby they are offended and angry at him to teach them that God will bee master and have dominion in Iacob and in all the world also And so they may goe like hungry dogs about the town murmuring and curssing and beg from door to door as Ps. 73.109 and never bee satisfyed And as hee is bound to sing of the firmnes and strength of Gods promiss and his loveing kindenes for his escape and refuge in his affliction and sore distress so to his strength and confidence and the God of his mercey hee will sing in Psalmes for his escape Construction For Nun defective They seek heer deprivation of his life that had no defect in him neither sinn nor trespass nor iniquity they beeing both bloody cursed which maketh the equity of his salvation and preservation and their damnation with utter destructâ—on prayed for that they may like doges never be satisfyed Is. 56. And let them goe yelling c. which wordes bee curiously doubled to shew want and misery for their greedynes And from Nat and Natah to decline or bring down Ps. 17. their base life as vagabundes to buissy them according to the title that they hurt him not though they wait to kill him Against their strengâ—h of persecution hee applyeth Gods strength the Ark and truth of his word for his Garison and salvation which hee observeth And his kindenes in rewarding as Ps. 62. Thes wordes com often also to make them notable Exodus Hee intendeth heer the sacrifice of fooles that are hasty to vow as vowes for the sinn of the mouth Eccles. 5. Deut. 23. beeing with much pride and much furey uttered much swearing much curssing much lyeing and deceiving and with thes ginnes hee would haue them taken and destroyed for their defect Like the vow of conspiracey against Paul Actor 23. The God of Releeff for strength and kindnes repeated Psal. â—8 144 PSALM LX. THe promisses of God doe hold the Church to their faith and they are sweet all yea and Amen And by Gods promiss in the Scripture they all hold and live and are refreshed because hee is mercyfull in them all and faithfull to the end The Church is often sick diseased but through faith they are recovered and made whole The Sicknes of the people of God is persecution and famine of the word and tottering in religion yet as long as the fire is not quite out and faith quite extinguished and their knowledge of the word quite decayed ther is no fear of death And this is the hope that David hath when the people of God are even at deathes door as Ps. 9. even his beloveed whom hee
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