the Earth That thy beloued ones may be released saue vs with thy right hand and hear vs. GOD SPEAKE in his Sanctuary I was glad I vvill diuide Shechem and meat out the vale of Succoth Giliad shall be mine and Manasses shall bee mine Ephraim shall bee my Cheeff strength Judah shall bee my Lavv-maker Moah my vvashing pot vpon Edom vvill I cast off my shoes vpon Palestina vvill I triumph Who conducted mee to the Citty Mibhzar who brought mee to the strong Citty Edom didst not thou ô GOD that dost giue vs the back and goest not foorth with our Armyes O GOD ô giue vs help in distresse for vaine is the help of man Through GOD wee shall doe prosperously and hee will tread down our Besiegers CIX For the Cheeff A PSALM of DAVID O GOD of my PRAYSE bee thou not Deaf for the deceiptfull mouthes of the Wicked are opened vpon mee and with false tongs they talk with mee and with hatefull wordes goe they about mee and oppugne mee for nothing for my loue they are against mee and I PRAYE them and they put vpon mee evill for good and hatred for my Love Set over him a Wicked man and let the ADVERSARY stand at his right hand and when hee is iudged let him goe out a Wicked man and his PRAYER be sinfull let his dayes bee few and another take his Oversight let his children be fatherles and his wife a Widow and let his Children goe about asking and seeking from their desolate dwellings Let the Creditor intangle all hee hath forrein Enimyes make a Prey of his labours Let him haue none to extend KINDNES let ther be none to pitty his Fatherless ones let his Posterity be cut off and in another Generation let their Name be clean blotted out Let the iniquity of his Fore-fathers be remembred vvith the ETERNALL and his Mothers sinn not blotted out Let them bee allvvayes before the ETERNALL that hee may cut off their Remembrance out of the Earth Because hee remembred not to doe KINDENES and pursued the afflicted and needy one to sley him of a contrite hart and loued cursing Let it com vnto him and had noe delight in blessing let it be far from him And let him put on Cursing as his Robe let it soke into him like vvater and like oyle into his bones let it bee to him like a vvrapping vveed and for a girdle to gird it allvvayes to him Let this bee the Revvard of them that STAND VP against mee from the ETERNALL and speake ill against my PERSON And thou ô ETERNALL ô my LORD shew mee for thy Names sake thy Favour and for thy Bountifull KINDENES deliuer mee because J am miserably afflicted and my hart is slaine vvithin mee as a Shadovv at his declineing I am gon I am driuen avvay like locusts my knees are feeble vvith fasting my flesh denyeth fatnes and J vvhich am a skorn to them and they vvag their heads vvhen they see mee ô ETERNALL my GOD. Help mee and according to thy LOVING KJNDENES saue mee That they may know that thou O ETERNALL with thy hand hast don this very thing When they reuile doe thou blesse when they rise vp let them be confounded that thy Servant may reioyce let them that stand vp against mee put on shame and wear their Confusion like an vpper garment that with my mouth I may exceedingly set foorth the ETERNALL and prayse him in the midst of many Because hee standeth at the right hand of the Destitute man to saue him from the Condemners of his life CX Of DAVID A Psalm THE ETERNALL SAYETH to my LORD Sit thou at my right hand vntill I set thine Enimyes thy foot stoole The ETERNALL will send the rod of thy STRENGTH out of Sion and Rulle thou in the midst of thine Enimyes Hee will send thee thy PRINCIPALL People in the day of thy Battail the timelines of the Womb and dew of thy youth in thy seemly Sanctuary The ETERNALL hath SWORNE and will not repent Thou shalt bee a Priest for euer like MELCHISEDEK By thy right hand the LORD will wound Kinges when hee is angry hee will Iudge among the Hethen his fill of Bodyes Hee will wound the Head over the Land of Rabbah Hee drank of the river in the way therfor shall hee hold vp his head CXI PRAISE the ETERNALL in the Counsell and Assembly of VPRIGHT men I will worship the ETERNALL with all my hart Great are the WORKES of the ETERNALL and to be sought out with all their DELIGHTS WORSHIP and HONOVR is his VVORKE and his RIGHTEOVSNES that standeth for euer Hee hath made remembrance of his WONDERFVLL WORKES The ETERNALL beeing GRATIOVS and MERCIFVLL Hee gaue food to them that fear him and was euer mindefull of his COVENANT Hee declare-ed the MIGHTYNES of his WORKES to his People to giue them the JNHERITANCE of the Heathen The Works of his handes are Truthe and Iudgement all his Precepts Faithfull They are established for euerlasting Eternity being made vvith TRVTH and PLAYNENES Hee sent Redemption to his people his Couenant that hee commaunded for euer holly and reuerend be his Name The beginning of Wisdome is the Feare of the ETERNALL and a good Vnderstanding haue all they that doe them His Prayse to stand for euer CXII PRAISE the ETERNALL Happy is the man that Feareth the ETERN and greatly delighteth in his Commandemēts his Seed shall be mighty in the Earth and the Generatiō of Vpright men shall be blesse-ed He shall haue vvelth Riches in his house and his Righteousnes shall indure for euer In darknes ther ariseth Light for Vpright men the Gratious the Mercifull and Iust man that a good man beeing Pittifull and lending may mainteine his Substance vvith Judgement because the Iust shall neuer be mooued hee shall be had in perpetuall Remembrance of any ill Nevves hee shall not bee afrayed his hart is firme and confident in the ETERNALL His hart is established that hee shall not bee afrayed vvhen hee looketh vpon his Foes Hee DISTRIBVTETH GIVETH to the Needy ones his Righteousnes shall last for euer And his HORNE shall be highe in GLORY vvhen the VVicked man seeth it hee shall freat and gnash his teeth and melt The Longing
that hee should be rewarded according to his righteousnes and his innocency before him dealing still frowardly with his enimyes but kindely with his servant by giveing grace and salvation to the humble and bringing down the proud looks Now becaus ther is no way of salvation but Gods and hee lightens his candle of understanding and makes his darknes to shine through which his way is perfect for any breach or assalt for relyeing on him that ther is none but God that saveth him by strength in his loynes perfection of his way surenes of footing advantage of the ground cunning of his hādes and strength of his arme that sheilds him and saves him and that the lowlynes of God and his Ministry advanced him and thus did hee beat down his enimyes and hee was delivered and they called in vain for ther was none to save them for they set light by his law Psal. 137.50 and God had hid his favours from them and favoured thē not according to his request Ps. 17. and brought them low in subjectiō and consumed them Ps. 55.59 and made him a famous conqueror without strife And for this hee blesseth the God of his salvation for all for his revenge for his commāde for his escape for his advancement among the Hethen and deliverance from that cruell one Saul that was kinde to cruell Amalek Therfor hee will thank the Name of the everlasting among the heathen for so great kindenes and salvation to him and his seed for everlasting generations Ps. 17. Construction Heer ther are many handes and that of divers sortes the hand of God the hand of the enemye and the hand of David himself and the hand of God hath the way of salvation and a way of punishment Hee saveth by light sure footing broad feet and sharp like deer becaus David is pure handed Hee punisheth with an angry hand inevitable stormes of hail and fire thunder and lightning to shew subjection and Dominion deliverances and condemnation becaus the enimyes hand is snares and affliction and invasion He giveth David all virtue and skill to uphold him and also force to prostrate his foes and destroy them according to the letter heth and also hee useeth Iadah for thanking that hee is never out of som signification of som kinde of hand or other Genesis Gods name Iehovah is a rock and everlasting and his way perfect and David sticketh close to it for his sole relye and quiescencey and is rewarded His enimyes are the sonnes of Belial ful of defect and therfor are revenged The deficients may appeer when they are made as small as dust in the winde and as inestimable as dust or dirt and when they trust not to their handes but shrink from their holdes so the reward of the one is the defeat of the other PSALM XIX WHen they professed themselves to be wise they became fooles Men thought to describe the mysticall image and glory of God by rotten creatures of the earth when his eternall power and godhead is considered in his method and way of creation and redemption Which becaus it is a way so wonderfull and so miraculous and his salvation so great so remarkable and notable and admirable in the eyes of men Ps. 118. for the infinit constancey of his word and everlasting love and righteousnes of the Law that it seemeth to shine beyond all thinges in the world It is called the glory of God and that great Ps. 138. and hee the king of glory Ps. 24. For his blessing and beames of righteousnes upon the church And this is the reformation and the new creation that the heavens and firmament shew every day in the week by renewing of knowledge over all the world 1. The Law of God is perfect becaus it hath power of conversion by shineing of the light therof round about us 2. It is so credible a testimony and so faythfull as the heavens themselves that the simple can beleeve it and be instructed 3. The provisos and statutes therof are very upright and plain and delightfull for eminencey 4. The commandement is as pure as the Sunn to make a man circumspect and addeth light to the sight and is good for the eyes 5. The Fear and honour of God is a clean cariage of a man by an undefiled religion that remaineth for ever 6. And all his work is don by true and right-judgement that makes his sentencees most sweet and delightfull to a reformed creature and to haue domination and approbation over all Thus by imprinting the manifest justice of the Law called the glory of God in the certainty of the heavens and their courses to all countryes intelligible Ps. 119. is And compareing the Law and the visitation therof to the Sunn in all propertyes for his locks of heavenly knowledge with a high estimation therof for shewing him his way Ps. 119. h 149. and the knowledge of infinit transgressions David prayeth for forgiuenes of all sortes of them that in word and thought hee may bee uprighte with the eternall and walk with God and keep an intire rest in true holynes before him and pleas him From the creation Gen. 1. And thus in six dayes God hath made heaven and earth c. by illumination and confirmation of men in the true knowledge of him by his word and bringing them to beleeve And heerby hee becommeth their father their life and creator their saviour and redeemer that they may both know him and also the way to him even Iesus Christ the true and liveing way even the very way of life Ps. 16. Every day is a degree of knowledge till wee com to a perfection and rest in the light and judgement of the Law the true light and perfection the Sabbath when sinn reigneth not over us but our Conscience is cleer and our words and thoughts pleas God Construction The letters make Iet of Natah to spred Ps. 104. and to decline and incline and a place of lyeing down a chamber c. and it hath the spreading of the heavens for his handy work Ps. 104. For the Name of God heer beeing might importeth hand The heavens are full of variation and yeld continuall knowledge all the world over wher the Sunn hath his chamber Solisque cubilia Gades c. his riseing and inclineing and declination and operation so hee declineth the Law and defineth the same and his owne errors are for declinations Genesis In the Definition is all quiescencey great riches great sweetnes great reward great wisdom great joy great knowledge and great purity great warning from which considering his declineings and divers defects Hee would be purged of all that hee might rest in the favour of God his rock and stay redemption sole quiescency and rely Ps. 18. and that the quiescence is in this word Mark that Iehova is seven times repeated to stay you therupon and upon the law as the defection is in the declineing from it and this is for a begining also PSALME XX.
is here girding besieging and constreining strictnes affliction or distress which is here argued by the contrary releasing inlargeing saveing and helping prosper Pro. 11. Mark the repetition help save releas distress besiegers c. Cheth to prostrate is argued by exalting likewise as up awake a bove the heavens to the cloudes â—xâ—lt over all the earth also to lay prostrate and tread down Bothe the letters make Quach of Laquach to take or receive as for ones own or proper or belonging and doth intend propriety and right to thes countryes which hee chalengeeth as for his proper people by the often itterateing of the habit and term of propriety in expressing his officers Deuteronomy The reciteing and repeating of their conquest by their singing and celebrating of â—ods highe way which is grace and truthe kindenes and faithfullnes of his word Io. 1. which shineeth above the skyes in his wonderfull works by subdueing of the countryes within the promiss and bringing them into subjection these wilde countryes to the word according to the letters as before in makeing them of the Church and to appertain unto it That makeeth men so glorious over all the world The light and glory of God that is farr out of reach and not atteined unto And hereto hee setteth his hart and his whole delight And wher hee sayeth thes are the words c. Hee meaneth the effect and the summ of them an Eternall life That is Gods promiss I will divide c. PSALM CIX NOw because the mouthes of the wicked are full of dissembling opened against him and talking with him and they compass him with hatered and backbite him for nothing and are against him for his love while hee is in prayer and playeth implyâ—th himself herein putting upon him evill for good and hatered for his love The thing that hee moste hateed loathed detested and abhorred Ps. 26. in steed of that which hee moste longed for and affected falshood for truth the Instrument of all his glory Ps. 4. gall for meat and vineger for drink Psal. 69. for all his charity and because of the mercylessnes of the wicked that never thinketh of any compassion on the afflicted but pursue the poore to make an end of the brokeen harted Psal. 35. loveing cursing and not blessing hee prayeth the God of his prais that is all Iustice reason and equity to hear him as Ps. 4. That a wicked man may bee sett over him and that is adversary may have the better hand of him and when hee is to bee censureed that hee bee counted a guilty and a wicked man and all his prayers and requests sinfull and faulty That for his dissembling and falshood and repugning without caus wherby hee deceiveth injures all and mischeeffs every thing may likewise deceive him and inflict injury and mischeeff on him That hee may have nothing in deed and in truthe that hee desireeth and would have or keep any thing that hee hath or injoy ought that hee delighteth in But that all things may faile him as Ps. 5.37 That hee may dye quickly and loos his office leave his childeren fatherless his wife a widow that his childeren may goe about and beg and seek out of their desolate Cotes and have none to have compassion or pitty upon them That the deceiver may catch all that hee hath and strangeers robb him of his labour That for the iniquity of his father and mother hee may bee cut off and have no posterity or memory in the next generation That the Curs may light upon him all blessing may bee far from him upon an other hill Deut. 27. That hee may allwayes wear it about him In sum that hee suffer all adversity and misery and bee frustrate of all his hopes that hee bee every way accursed for a just reward of God upon them that slander his life and speak ill of him And that the Everlasting would have commiseratioÌ„ compassion on him for his names sake deliver him his hart beeing slain with affliction with in him his age declineing fadeing his knees faile with fasting and his flesh will not bee fatt and hee is a mocking stock a reproche with them and help him and save him That they may know it to bee his dooing and that hee will turn their cursing to blessing that they his adversaryes may bee ashameed all over them of their riseing against him and his servant may rejoyce and that hee may set foorth the Eternall with the instrument of his mouth and prais him openly assisting him and saveing the needy and destitute man from his condemner And this from the curs of the Serpent and enimyes of the Church Gen. 2. For prayer and for the cursed Construction Quoph to compass or besiege or inviron and such are hatred and the words of hatred called Sineah doubled For improsperousnes of sinisterity and left hand affayres signifyed by the letter Sin called Smol with his prick on his left hand thus ש to paint out the crossnes and untowardnes of the devill Ps. 119. Sh. They goe about and oppugne c. Hee dealeth also e diametro by the opposit point Satan the adversary Bothe the circumventing and the resisting Enimy Mark the repetition put on wear upper garment to be wrapping weed girdle gird c. goe about E diametro oppugne bee or stand against adversary c. right haÌ„d c. kindenes c. intangle blessing cursing c. Teth to decline or sweep a way as a declineing driven away weak knees lean flesh c. Bothe the letters make Quot to bee yrksom and greevous His way is wholey yrksom and advers to all good motion Mark the repetition prayer Mark again the declineing of Jehovah into Iehovi to shew the Mystery Deuteronomy His whole life is an yrksom way and without the compass of grace or favour fâ—om God and his reward from God is as yrksom God giveth him all adversity improsperity that can bee and worketh him no deliverance because hee is fals and mercyless God forsaketh him and hee dyeth accursed and his name is out See name blot remembrance c. doubled The recitation is destruction and deliverance Heer mercy and truthe kiss not ech other but are far a sunder Ps. 85. and have no habitation in such And somuch for a Deuterosis or an enumeration of a cursed and wicked man PSALM CX THe Kings right hand is his Ministry By discipline fayth and prayer the Serpents head is brokeen and the Church delivered from bondage and thus hee commeth to conquer him and cleer the Grammer Yf God bee on our side who can bee against us yf God fight for us whom should wee fear Therfor yf hee take our part wee may sitt down and bee still And yf the quarell bee his what need wee stirr God hath no quarell but for his Church which heer is personed by David the defendour and head of the same Which because it is a flock of perfect and
are before thee and pleasures at thy right hand for euer XVII A Prayer of David O ETERNALL marke well my righteous cry and heare my prayer with vndeceitfull lips I will bee iudged by thee thine eyes behold the right which proovest and seest my hart in the night and tryest mee to the vttermost I meane not to overshoot with my mouth by the word of thy lips I take heed to the workes and pathes of the ROBBER keep my steps in thy high wayes that my feet slip not When I call thee answer mee ô thou Mighty one turn thine eare to mee heare my Saying Thou that savest by thy right hand them that relye theron conceal mee by thy Kindenesses from them that rise vp against mee Keep mee as the aple of thine eye hide mee in the shaddovv of thy vvinges from my vvicked Enimies that in minde cast about to destroy mee vvith their mouthes they speak svvelling vvordes vvhich are closed vp vvith their fatt Novv they goe round about mee vvach to lay mine vpright steps an the ground like Lions grady of prey and Lions vvhelps lying close in their dens Vp ô ETERNALL and stand before him make him crouch and by thy svvord reskue my life from the VVicked by thy hand ô Eternall reskue mee from vvorldly men that haue their part in this life and haue their bellies full of thy store and their Children haue enough and leaue their residue for their babes after them for when I awake and behold in RIGHTEOVSNES the Image of thy countenance I am satisfyed XVIII By the Cheeff by David cheeff Servant of the ETERNALL who vttered to the ETERNALL the wordes of this Song when the ETERNALL delivered him from the gripeing of all his enimyes and from the handes of Saul and sayd I yeeld thee mercy ô ETERNALL my fortification the ETERNALL that is my Rock and my Fortresse my Reskuer my Might and Safegard my Defence my Releeff and Horne of Salvation in whom I relyed I called on the ETERNALL who is to be praised and I was saved from mine Enimies Deadly sorrowes compassed mee whole floodes of the wicked frighted mee the very cordes of Hell were round about mee and snares of death before mee In my destresse I called on the ETERNALL who hard my voyce in his Temple my shoute before him came into his eares And the erth quaked and gaue a crack the foundations of the Hills stirred and they quaked for it kindled him his anger smoked and waxâ— a fire out of his mouth and devoured the coales burnt by it He bowed the Heavens came downe with mirknesse vnder his feet rideing and flying vpon Cherub and spread vpon the winges of the winde hideing himselfe in darknes and covering himselfe all about with the thicke watery cloudes of the sky At his brightnes his cloudes went haile stones and coles of fire and the Eternall thundered in heauen and the High-one gaue his clap and sent abroade all his arrowes and disturbed them with haile stones and coales of fire and great lightnings At thy rebuke ô Eternall at the blasting breth of thine Anger the water chanels were seen dry and the foundations of the world were revealed Who sent from an high and tooke mee and drew mee out of the great waters and deliuered mee from my mighty Enimies and foes that were to strong for mee and had advantage over mee in my calamity But the Eternall was the staff I leaned on and hee brought mee foorth into a large place and released mee because hee delighted in mee The Eternall restored mee according to my RIGHTEOVSNES and rewarded mee according to the cleanes of my handes because I keep the wayes of my God the ETERNALL and haue not wickedly-swarved from him for all his Iudgements are by mee and I cast not his prescriptions from mee and I am whole with him and keep mee from mine iniquity and the ETERNALL hath rewarded mee according to my righteousnes and purenes of my handes before him Thou with the kinde art moste kinde with the intire moste intire with the pure moste pure with the froward moste perverse because thou savest the oppâ—essed people and humblest the proud lookes because thou lightedst my candle and my God the ETERNALL cleered my darknes For by thee my God I runn leaping on the garreson wall The way of the Almighty is perfect and the Saying of the ETERNALL a tryed saying Hee is a DEFENDOVR of all that rely on him For what God or what safegard is there besideâ— our God the ETERNALL The Almighty that girded mee with valour made my way perfect makeing my feet like hindes feet to stand vpon my high places that teacheth my handes for bataile and mine armes to breake a bow of steel For thou gauest mee the shield of thy Saluation and heldest mee vp with thy right hand and with thy lowlines hast made mee great Thou madest broad my footsteps vnder mee and my ancles reeld not I pursued mine Enimies and overtook them and turned not again till I had made an end of them I wounded them that they cold not stand but fell vnder my feet for thou girdedst mee with valour for battaile thou hast bowed downe vnder mee them that rose vp against mee thou gavest mee the neck of mine Enimies and them that hatched mee and I dissolued them They shouted and there was no Saviour vpon the ETERNALL but hee answered them not I layd them like durte in the street and beat them as small as dust before the winde thou savedst mee from the contendings of people Thou settest mee cheeff among the Hethen a people that I knew not served mee as sone as they heard of mee they obeyed mee Strangers revolted to mee the forein fadeed away and shrunk from their holdes Let the ETERNALL live and blessed bee my Defendour and the God of my Saluation bee exalted The God that giveth mee revenge and commandeth nations vnder mee that reskeweth mee from mine Enimies yea thou takest mee vp from mine Insurrectours and deliuerest mee from the iniurious man Therefore I will thanke the ô ETERNALL and sing praise vnto thy Name among the Hethen The ETERNALL that gives his King so greate salvation and sheweth such kindenes to his annointed to David and his seed for ever XIX For the Cheeff A Psalme of David THE Hevens declare the glory of God and the FIRMAMENT setteth
seeketh to kill the JVST but the ETERNALL will not leaue him in his hand nor condemn him when he is to bee JVDGED If thou wilt Wait vpon the ETERNALL and observe his WAY he will exalt the to the Inheritance of the Land and thou shalt see the WICKED cutt off I haue seen the WICKED lusty and shooting vp like a green graff but Loe hee is passed by and gon and if I seek him he is not to be found MARK and consider the PLAINE and VPRIGHTE MANS end is Peace and the Posterity of the WICKED is cutt off and also the TRESPASSERS they themselues are destroyed The SALVATION of the IVST is from the ETERNALL that is their whole CONFIDENCE in Time of Destresse and the ETER will rescue them hee will rescue them from the WICKED and will SAVE them because they relye vp on him XXXVIII A Psalme of DAVID for a Memoriall O ETERN reproove mee not in thy chafe nor CORRECT mee in thy Choler for thine Atrowes are lighted on mee thy hand lyeth vpon mee I haue no helth in my flesh nor any ease in my bones thou rage-est so for my SINNE For mine Iniquities are gon vpon my head like a hevy burden more then I can carry my blovves are putrified and my Stripes stink for my folly I stoop and goe vvonderfull crooked I goe all day mourning my Loynes are full of Burning and I haue â—oe helth in my flesh I am much bruseed and vveakned I roare vvith the vvorying of my hart O LORD thou knovvest my Desire and my sighings are before thee my hart is in Paine my Strength is gon mine eyes are spent and mine eyesighte gon from mee My Lovers and my Freends vvill not com nigh my Plague my Kinsmen stand a farre off VVhile they that seek my life and serch my hurt speak corrupt vvords to intrap mee and talk nothing but Deceipt all the Day and I like a dumb body that could not speak so vvas I like a man that heareth not and like one that could not rebuke Thou shalt CONSIDER and ANSWER for mee ô LORD my GOD for I WAITE for thee ô ETERN lesse they LAVGH at mee for what I say and MAGNIFY themselues over mee when my foot slippeth For I was ready to halt and my greeff is euer before mee When I shew mine Iniquity and am sory for my Sinn For they that are Enimies of my Life are mighty and many and they that hate mee wrongfully are wonderfully increased They are against mee because I follow that which is God paying mee EVILL for GOOD Forsake mee not ô ETER bee not farre from mee ô my GOD my LORD my SALVATION make haste to help mee XXXIX For the Cheeff for Ieduthun A Psalme of DAVID I Thought I would look to my WAY for Sinning with my tonge and to bridle my Mouth before the WICKED Therfore I became stark Dumb and forbore from speaking that which was GOOD and that greeved mee more And I CHAFED in my minde and my Thoughts weare on fire so I SPAKE and SAYED ô ETERNALL shew mee when my end shall bee and the MESVRE of my DAYES I may know how long I shall stay I know thou hast made all my dayes but a HANDFVLL and my whole Age is Nothing before thee for Surely every mans ABIDEING is nothing but Meer Vanity Every man is much troubled and caryed away with a vain Fansy to beap vp and knoweth not who shall Spend it but my only HOPE and WAITING is for thee O LORD Deliver mee from all my Trespasses make mee not weare the Reproche of the Filthy-fooles for I was still Silent held my Tonge because it was thy Dooing O take away thy SCOVRGE from my back I am quite consumed with the Tentation of thy hand VVhen thou CORRECTEST a man vvith Rebukes for Iniquity thou meltest avvay his Lovelynes like a Moth for Surely every man is fraile VANITY Heare my PRAYER ô ETERNALL and my Shouteing vnto thee hearken vnto my teares and be not deaff for J am a STRANGER vvith thee and a So JOURNER as my Fathers vvere ô Spare mee and deale gentlely vvith mee J may be somvvhat refreshed before J goe hence quite and com no more XL. For the Cheeff A Psalme of David I Continued my WAITING on the ETER and at last hee turned to mee and hard my SOVTEING And took mee out of a horrible Pitt out of Dirt and mire and gaue mee sure footing and sett my feet on a Rock and put a NEVV SONG in my mouth A PRAYSE to our GOD many savv it and FEARED and TRVSTED in the ETERNALL HAPPY is the man that makeeth the ETERNALL his TRVST and carreeth not for Mockers nor such as dravv to Falshood Thy mervilous FEASTS ô my GOD ETER vvhich thou hast don for vs are many and no man can reckon them vnto thee if I should assay to declare them they are to many to tell Sacrificees and Meat offerings thou carest not for THOV HAST MADE MEE EARES TO HEARE Neither burnt offerings nor Sinn offerings requireest thou Then SAYED I Loe heer I am in the open book plainely it is VVRITTEN of mee for I haue pleasure to doe thy vvill ô my GOD and in my Belly is thy LAVV J PREACH RIGHTEOVSNES in the Great Congregation and J shut not my Lips ô ETERN thou knovvest I conceal not thy RIGHTEOVSNES in my minde J declare thy FAITHFVLLNES Thy SALVATION I hide not thy Lo-KINDNES I declare thy TRVTH to the Great Congregation Therfore O ETERNALL shut not thou thy mercyes from mee but let thy LOVEING KINDNES and thy TRVTHE allwayes preserve mee for Innumerable Evills are come vpon mee and mine Iniquityes haue overtaken mee and I cannot SEE they are more then the Haires of my Head and my Hart fayleth Be so GOOD as to deliuer mee O ETERNALL O ETERNALL help mee with Speed and let them be ashamed and confounded that goe about to Shorten my Life and be turned back with Reproche that would hurt mee let them be Stund with their Shame that SAY ô Sir ô Sir That all that SEEK thee and Love thy SALVATION may be glad and reioyce in thee and SAY allwayes Great be the ETERNALL O
was a Great ARMY of MESSENGERS and warly Kings fled they fled and the Good wife of the House diuided the spoile Will you lye in your Cotes with your silver gold plate-ed fethers yee Culver-winges while the ALSVFFICIENT snoweth Kings in Salmon and spreds them on it the HILL of GOD the HILL Bashan the HILL Bashan MOVNT GABHNVNIM why vrge yee the HILLS GABHNVNIM a Hill that GOD listeth to haue for his Seat Yea the ETERNALL will abide ther for ever The Chariots of GOD are twenty Millions of Souldiers and my LORD in the middes of them in the Sanctuary of Sinai Thou surmountest to the High-est thou takest captive and receivest Ransomes for men and also the Wayward ones are to abide still O GOD ETERNALL blessed be my LORD the GOD of my SALVATION when wee are burdned surely Our GOD is the GOD of SALVATION and the ISSVES of Death are my LORD the ETERNALLS but GOD will wound the head of his Enimyes and the hairy crown of him that walketh in his Crimes My LORD SAYED I vvill bring theÌ„ againe from BASHAN I will bring them againe from the Bottom of the Deep Sea That thou mayest blood thy feet and vvet the tonges of thy Doges in the blood of thine Enimyes They savv thy GOINGS ô GOD and Hovv my GOD and KING marched in his SANCTVARY Singers goe before and Minstrels follovv and in the midle are maydes tabouring vvith Tabors in the Congregations they blessed GOD they blessed the LORD from the Fountain of Israel Ther is litle Benjamin their Commander vvith the Princes of Iudah the Prince-es of Zabulon and Prince-es of Neph Taly their band Thy GOD send thy STRENGTH The strength ô GOD vvhich thou hast vvrought for vs out of thy Temple vpon Ierusalem that KINGS may vvaft giftes vnto thee CHASTICE thou the beastes vvith the reed and the herd of the mighty bulls vvith the Calues of the People that creep for peeces of mony Let him scatter the Nations that delight in vvars that Prince-es may com from Egypt Ethopia send her hand Post vnto GOD Yee KINGDOMES of the Erth SING vnto GOD CHAVNT out my LORD surely SING to him that ride-eth in the Ancient Heauens beholde vvith his VOYCE hee gaue a mighty VOYCE O giue STRENGTHE vnto GOD for Israel his highth and his STRENGTH in the Skyes My GOD terrible out of thy SANCTVARYES the Mighte of Israel that Giueth STRENGTH and FORTITVDE to his People Blessed be GOD. LXIX For the Cheeff vpon Shoshamin of David O Save mee ô GOD the waters are come euen to my SOVLE I steek fast in the deep mire and ther is no Standing I am come into the deep Waters and the Currents drowne mee I am weery of CALLING my throat is hoarse mine Eyes are spent with waiting for my GOD my Haters for nothing are more then the Haires of my Head and my Traytorous Enimyes exceed my Lockes that I restored that which I stole not O GOD thou knowest my Folly and my faultes be not hid from thee ô my LORD let theÌ„ not be abashed of mee that waite for thee ô warlike ETER GOD of the Hostes of Israel Let not them that seek thee be reproched by mee seeing I bear reproche for thee and my face is covered with shame I am a strange-er to my Bretheren â—nd vnknown to my Mothers children for the Zeal of thy House devoured mee the Reproche-es of thy Reproches falling vpoÌ„ mee My body fasted I wept that was a reproche to mee I put on Sack-cloth and they flouted mee they sit in their Doores and talke of mee and the Ale-drinkers rhime vpon mee And I with my PRAYER to the ETERNALL ô GOD when it pleaseth thee for thy great KINDENES TRVTHE of thy SALVATION Hear mee O Deliuer mee out of the Durt and let mee not steek fast let mee be deliuered from my Hate-ers and from the vvater-vvhirle-pooles let not the Currents overflovv mee let not the Deep svvallovv mee let not the Pit close her mouth vpon mee Consider mee ô ETERNALL of thy bountifull KINDENES and of thy great Mercyes look vpon mee and hide not thy face from thy Seruant vvhen I am in Distresse hye and Consider mee Com neer vnto my SOVLE ransom it com neer because of mine Enimyes and redeeme mee Thou knovvest my Reproche-es my Bashfullnes and Shame all my vvrongers are before thee Reproche and Greeff hath broken my Harte I looked for escapeing and ther vvas none I looked for Comforters and I finde none but they put Gall in my feeding and giue mee viniger to Drinke for my thirst O let their tables before them be a Trap and their freendly Truce-es a tileed Snare let their Eyes be dark from seeing it and make their Loynes allvvayes tumble povver vpon them thy vvrath let the Kindling of thy COVNTENANCE ouertake them Let their Tyrets be vvaste and noe man dvvell in their Tents and because they pursue him vvhom thou hast strooken and reckoned to greev thy Slaine Put thou VVRONG vpon their VVRONG let them neuer com into thy RIGHTE Let them be vvipe-ed out of the Book of Life and vvith the IVST let them neuer be vvritten and I beeing in Misery and Greeff that thy SALVATION may releeue mee that I may PRAYSE and Magnify the NAME of GOD vvith Songs of THANKSGIVING and it shall please the ETERNALL better then a yong horned clouen footed ox bullock That the LOVVLY may see it and reioyce and yee that seek GOD it may reuiue your hartes that the ETERNALL hearkeneth to the Poore and despiseth not his Prisoners That the Heauens and Earth and Sea and all that creepeth in them may Prayse him for GOD vvill saue Sion and build the Cittyes of Iudah that they may dvvell there and possess it and that the SEED of his Seruants that Loue his NAME may inherit it and abide in it for euer LXX For the Cheeff of David for Remembrance O GOD ETERNALL make haste to deliver mee and help mee that they may be abashed and confounded that seek my Life and be turned back with Reproche that would hurt mee Let them returne with shame that SAYE ô Sir ô Sir that all that seek thee and loue thy SALVATION may be glad and reioyce in thee and all way SAY GOD be great And I being wreched and needdy ô
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
Satan and mischevous as the Divill as subdole as the Serpent and as holy as an Angel to deceiue the Angells yea yf it were possible the very Elect. Wherfor all his attributes are given in the contrary sens as naked for subdole covered as Gnarum which in this Psalme is remembred Mar and Rang bitter and bad from Merignim This is the fowler Ps. 91. And the schoolfellow Psal. 55. That fetcheth him off and hee shall never know who hurt him so all his wayes and words are bitter and distastâ—full and cut like a rasor and are deadly and mortall because they are fals and deceitfull and damnable Now because to live in fear of such a one is a terrible thing hee complaineth greatly of this terror of an Enimy and prayeth that hee may not live in fear of such a one but that God would preserve his life from such a fear which fear is expressed Ps. 55. It is dolorous and with pangs within one it is as cruell as death it self falling upon one inexorable crueltyes as of death a trembling fear that assailes him and sets upon him and befalls him and buffeteth him as it did Paul Hee is overcom with horror And this is the fear hee prayeth to bee freed of and the Enimy that hee would have terribly cut off by his own wayes and perish by his own traps That the just and plain meaning men that trust in God with great joy may admire and acknowledge his work and prais him Construction Samec to uphold Hee sheweth heer the privative therof and the contrary by the effect of bad tonges that by slander backbiteing scandall overthrow men as a bad report and an ill name doth hange one This they doe with boldnes and assurance artificially and stoutly which is as a kinde of door emptines or opening as for Daleth the second letter The contrary heerunto is fear that hath no comfort or relying Both the letters make Sod a secret or counsel and shew all along so much by the termes and phrases hide snares and serch c. with the contrary So all is secret or pubilique fear or confidence susteining or overthrowing Exodus In the Law all Sacrifice must bee found and perfect and without blemish or any ill thing Lev. 22. Deut. 17.15 heer the most holy and precious service of the wicked is the maiming spotting and staining of all integrity syncerity and soundnes of upright and perfect men And by detraction and defamation to marr their reputation even by transcending and mounting up to their thoughtes their closenes and deep diveing into the conscience and minde of them And slaughter of the tong as Ier. 18. by way of privation a Sacrifice of wrongs or Burnt-offering of dayly consumming greeff molestation and vexation PSALM LXV BEcause God is the onely hearer of prayer hath been reconcileed and pacifyed concerning his flood and inundation of iniquity and trespasses as Psal. 32. which overcame him that all prais and vowes are due to him in Zion hee inviteeth all the world to set out the happines of that habitation the Church and of his Election and the comfortable substance that is had from thence for salvation against the fearfull justice of condemnation hee beeing the trust of all the world by his power the Law walking upon the seas and haveing them under his feet by his unknown steps and sayling through the Law Psal. 77.8.47 c. setleing kingdoms putting down the rageing and wicked nations floodes of iniquity and delighting them that fear him with sending his word among them the River of the Scriptures to water and enrich them to make them fuitfull Hee now prayeth God for the farther propagation of the Church under a form of husbandry That as hee looketh out of the Scriptures upon the earth and it prospereth so that hee would doo all good husbandry upon the ground to make it fit for receiving the seed of the word with mollyfying all hard and savage hartes and wayes of men and sending showers of grace into them Then that hee will bless the begetting and crown all the growth therof with goodnes that his wayes may make the word to flow plentifully in all ignorant countryes called the wildernes that they may bee as well sett as the rest and triumph as well as the rest together Ps. 67. Construction Samec to uphold or sustein The kindes of sustenance heer is forgivenes of sinns and satiety of grace out of the hous of God the trust and susteiner of all the world Who 's indument of strength and might holdeth fast up the hills and beateth down the seas c. by this privation The manner of susteining the erth is by his dayly and plentifull watering of it and provideing of Corn as for the dwellers in it and plantation So that Husbundry mainteynes all as Salomon saith He the other letter signifying behold is all for presence or absence in sight or out of sight or distant and overhealing and that of divers kindes as prayer and prays to God By chuseing and entertaining neerest unto him c. Endes and longinquities c. and make the farthest countryes meaâ—y Ps. 103. thou lookest c. on the earth c. That the erth may be covered with corne and cattell c. that a man can not see the ground reconcileing them and covering of sinns Love couereth a multitude of sinns so the Merceyseat and mans protection is sett over the Law Because the Iustice therof is so terrible Accordingly Seh both the letters of Nasah to lift up or take away or pardon Exodus Ier. 31. and Ps. 50. Lev. 7. you are told what sacrifice hee heer meaneth to wit thanks-offering and vowes for his gratious protection and susteining of him by his mercyfull goodnes out of his word Gods gentle audience forgiveing of sinns and provideing for food and raiment is a most mercy full thing and well deserveth the prais and devotion of all the world and therfor this audience and satisfaction was bidden proper in Zion the place of Gods habitation PSALM LXVI SEeing by fearfull and terrible meanes and by mighty and strange workes by the greatnes of his strength in this Law God hath preserved his Church and subdued his Enimyes and increased his worship trying his people by all manner of tentation troubles the vigilance of his word called his eyes tending them and saveing them to a place of refreshing and with life and rejoiceing in their soules that hee let not their feet bee mooved and overthrew their Enimyes lest they should vaunt over them hee willeth all the erth and all nations to prais their God and to set out his glorious Name for the same because hee himself is ready to pay his vowes in the hous of God haveing obteined the request that hee made in his distress Construction Samec to put upon or hold up by the term put so often used upon or under exalt or putting upon or lay upon or ride upon c. also
delight in warr that Egypt and Cush may com in and all Kingdomes of the earth for the increas of the church may sing to Gods Name the Eternall that rideeth and is glorious mounted in the Scriptures the Ancient Heavens before them that with a mighty voice in his church doe cry give all strength to God for his surpassing defens and pride of Israel in the skyes Psalm 29.15 that is terrible in his sanctuary and strengtheneth his people Construction Samec to uphold or maintein wherunto is opposeed kindes of perishing Vpholding is by strength of it hee makeeth divers kindes and his virtues ther God upholdeth as a father a husband a comfortable consort alone a redeemer out of bandes c. And all in his church by his word that susteined his people And such was the strength and nourishment of them even preaching Gods army is of great and invincible strength and able allwayes to save and recover out of the greatest deep of Misery As is his preachng so is his order of admirable strength and virtue which is useed for tameing of the Nations The perishing part is vanishing smoke melting wax snow painting pride flieing scattering c. From Cheth to prostrate break and wound and strewing c. spreding like snow c. The two letters Sach of Nasach to overthrow to be plucked up and destroyed For the privative likewise Exodus In the same sens God is eternall and rideth perpetually in the word wher hee is every wher so highly exalted and praised And for this stately everlasting residence hee is worthy Apo. 4.5.7 to have all glory honour and power and strength c. ascribeed to him The sacrifice is of singing and rejoyceing and exaltation of the Name of God for the strength of his salvation Is. 12.19 for the setting up of Israel And the Name Iah for Lord all for strength so oft and Iehovah for Elohim El and Adonah to note the same for a free will and heave offering Exod 35. by skipping and daunceing before the Ark. So liberally is hee mainteyned The Name of God commeth 26. times for the Honour of his Name Iehovah which letters signify so many just So God hath the whole feâ—ld to him self heer as Iob. 19. PASLM LXIX COnsidering the multitude and reprochefullnes that dayly exercise themselves upon him the miserable case that hee is in reproche and greeff haveing brokeen his hart for continuance of his troubles which are termed by all kinde of troublesom waâ—ers that by no meanes by spending of his voice and his eyes with calling and looking for help hee can get out off And considering the want and distastefullnes and strangenes of his freendes and acquaintance that hee was quite abashed compareing his troubled minde to the affliction of a prisoned man and considering that this that is com upon him is all for his godlynes and that all is for zeal to Gods hous and service more then for his sinn from them now his prayer is that it would pleas him of all kindenes to deliver him heerof That it make not an end of him but that God will leap in to him and com neer to his soul and redeem his life that the rest of the church may not bee abashed at his perishing And becaus of the trayterousnes and causlesnes of his Enimyes that their own meat bee made a bait to catch them and their table-talk to insnare them that they may lye tumbling and burn in wrath when they look in the book of God and see his angry countenance And becaus they still persecute a man in misery whom God himself hath strooken and allready slain for his foolish transgression adding strokes unto strokes wrongfully and beastly so that God would add iniquity to their iniquity still and that they may doo more wrong and more and never com to doo right that they may bee cutt off by their own wayes and never bee recorded with the Iust nor mentioned in the book of life That hee may sing a song of Thanks-giveing a principall sacrifice for his deliverance That all the whole church may rejoyce in their hartes that hee will once think upon the poor and imprisoned and all Creatures may prais him for his care advauncement of his church and the inheritance of his seed for ever Construction Samec to uphold Hee dealeth heer by way of privation in a contrary sens His misery is so great that ther is no support but hee is sunk over head and eares and hee hath no good footing to stand upon or any thing to bear him up but is quite drowned and overwhelmed The meanes of his pain are faultes folly from his Enimyes reproche depravation for his godlynes skoffing at all his profession Neither would his neerest freends know him that much daunted and sunk him in his spirit Hee prayeth for the favour of God and his truthe to prop him and suggest him therwith by hearing and delivering of him Hee looked for refuge and comforters but they fayled and wear eger and distastfull to him That sunk him also Therfor that all his Enimyes stay might fayl them And Gods salvation may exalt and succour the oppressed and greeved to the comfort of the godly and the just Tet for mire or durt by sticking or sinking and mire for declining wise repeated as Ps. 9. Set bothe lâ—tters Iehovah inflected Iehovih declineed to shew the same Exodus The sacrifice heer is a prais of the Name and calling upon God in distress Ps. 50. and a Thanks-offering like the Magnificat of Mary the mother of Iesus Lu. 1. better then any declination or double way of the wicked Hos. 5. And this shall hold up Ierusalem and Ierusalem the Saintes for ever Heerto are these wordes to bee applyed I will have mercy and not sacrifice Math. 9. an upholder And such a sacrifice hee will have in the wildernes also Exod. c. Remember still the iteration of termes to confirm the doctrine The request is for Ignominy Namelessnes and utter Extinction Mark the declineing of Iehovah into Iehovih the forme of Elohim for the God of Hostes and of Israel at the beginning of the doctrine PSALM LXX THis Psalme as it staÌ„deth for a Cadence in the first book in the end of the 40. after magnifyeing of the prais of God so heer it serveth for a Cadence together with the 71 of this book also and of his prayers and of the yeeres of his life to induce his prais 71. That considering now the fleetnes of his life and that his life is now allmoste speÌ„t that hee would make great haste to deliver him that hee might ere hee dye see all his Enimyes confounded Ps. 71. and that hee may bee able even to the last to set out his prais and that hee may be found strong therin when his Enimyes hold him forsaken of God with request as followeth 71. Construction Gnajin an eye from the word Gnajin 1. Sam. 18. to ey one or invye one
earth the people of God now prayeth that hee will shew som end of this desolation as Ps. 14.53 and limit their unspâ—akable misery and distress and strech out his hand and save them And that hee would not give away his Church wholely and the soules of his innocent dooves to the beastly kingdoms of the heathen and never more to think upon it but that hee would look to his covenant and pluck their feet out of the snare and defend them from the injury of the darknes of the heathen and maintein his own quarell that the Enimy that revile him grow not too proud and the poor praisers of his name goe away with reproche for ever Construction GnaÃn an eye or to ey or look directly upon To remember is a kinde of looking upon And it commeth oft so look or behold c. The contrary is to turn away angry and forget and regard not all doubled words Daleth the day light and the Sunn for the meanes of sight and pleasure of the eye Gnen for aspect and for fountaines and rivers Daleth a door for the doores and light of heaven or the opening of the understanding Mat. 3. If. 11. both the letters spell Gnad untill or unto for the Termini or reaching from one thing to another a quo ad quem c. And of this sort is day and night sommer and winter c. for seasons or signes which shall never ceas Gen. 1.9 The limitation is by 400 in the words Ribhah Ribheka as Ps. 43.119 R. or 34.25 by the doubling of the word Tsorareka thy besiegers for 490 c. Mark Chajath in a contrary sens and the wordes remember and forget and signes c. repeated How long c. Gned eternity by the oft repeating of Netsach the continuation till when c. Gnadhab to indue for assembly by all kindes and termes of the Church Sheep of thy pasture shaft or tribe or rod of inheritance the hill of Sion holynes Synagogue Sanctuary Tabernacle congregation c. The indument and habit of the Church is the praysing of the name of God and the roring and blasphemy of the Enimy the contrary For privation which is the summ And again Gnad for spoil for the doubling of the outrage of the Enimy in their ransacking of it Salvation were the walles and the gates are prais now turned all to havok and reproche Leviticus Ther is a new Citty or a new civility which is the word of God whose walles are salvation and her Gates are prais Heerby God hath shewed himself a saveing King in the midst of all the world by dividing it by his Ministry which is his strength and passing through as through a sea Exod. 14. Ezech. 47. And makeing it as cleer as glass Apoc. 4. wher the heades of the Arc-enimyes are broken in peeces and the great devouring fishes of the Sea brought to land and devoured Preachers break up the fountaines of the word that rivers of doctrine flow they discover the depth shew the bottom of mighty rivers Mark the iteration of the words the affectation and prosecution of them and you shall plainly see the intendement The Synagogue and place of exercise preaching and invocation destroyed PSALM LXXV FOr the revelation of the mystryes of godlynes and propinquitye of Gods word called his Name which is the inward and harty understanding therof in person of the church And becaus hee hath had time to attein to a perfit judgement therin and to discern what mould every man is made of and the frailty therof and is cunning in his workes and wayes and all his ends and that all the people in the world bee but melting pillars of earth and vainglorious and wicked men that aim at highe preferment hee assureeth them that stand they never so stiff and look they never so high one way or another or farr off they add nothing to their stature Ps. 83. but that it is God that knoweth their size that advanceeth or abaseeth all men according to their understanding And becaus in the hand of the Eternall are the Scriptures called a vessel full of sparkling and seething wine with the spirit therof which hee draweth out and propoundeth and that the wicked drinck but the litterall dregs therof as Ps. 11. and are of a muddy understanding hee sheweth that hee will tell and sing the same in psalmes perpetually to the God of Iacob That hee may by this doctrine cutt off the loftynes and vain glory of the wicked called his hornes the image and power of oppression Dan. 2.8 That the Iust may the better shine and bee highly glorifyed Construction GnajÃn an eye from Gnaian to set eyes or affections on for high looks and strange projects for preferment and glory for seeking it east and west and all the wilde world over He the second letter to behold Lo heer or ther to thank or confess thy name is nigh they declare thy miracles c. I will tell to the God of Iacob c. to draw out and wring out c. which is to bring hid things to light or in presence or to shew or vaunt or to sweep them away as by the two letters from Jagnah to sweep Is. 28. for the contrary And this kinde of sweeping is the cutting off of the hornes and glory of the wicked c. hee exalteth c. the doubling of Hee is a pointing c. Leviticus The sermon is that God and his word doth all and that is ever present and neer that hee doth measure us and weigh us and condemn us putteth down and setteth up Da. 2. from Is. 28. Wher Iudgement is layed to the rule and righteousnes to the balance c. By these wordes I measure c. God is hee that â—udgeeth c. by resembling of the scales and balances high and low c. Besides hee hath his cup of condemnation to sweep away the wicked by preaching it unto them The effect of all is discretion and demonstration That a true light of all and not a vain or proud conceit promoteeth PSALM LXXVI GOD is moste famous in Iudah and Israel and especially-ly in Zion and Ierusalem wher hee dwelleth for discomfiting the Kings of Canaan called the devouring hills utterly destroying them in his anger for their Malice to the Church and the Promiss as Ps. 2. rebukeing them and their forcees with an eternall sleep astonishment and stupidity with his angry presence and his Iudgement proclaimed out of the Scriptures called the heavens when hee riseeth to save his poor people the church and to set them in quiet Now seeing Gods anger and malice so kindled in them doth make him so famous by so horrible destruction hee prayeth to indue them with the rest of his choler to make an end of his Enimyes And willeth his church to pay their vowes to their God and to keep promiss and covenant with him and that they doo gratifye the Eternall for his terror that so faythfull-ly