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
which wee haue heard and known and our fathers have told vs. that wee should recount the PRAYSES of the ETERNALL to another Generation and not conceal from their children his power and his mervillous WORKES which hee hath don Hee set a TESTAMENT in Iacob and put a LAW in Israel which hee commaunded our fathers to acquaint their Children with that an other Generation might knowe it and children vnborne might vp and tell it to their Children that they might put their TRVST in GOD and not forget the Excellent DEEDS of the ALMIGHTY and obserue his COMMAVNDEMENTS And not be like their Fathers a froward and rebellious Generation a Generation that had noe stedfast hart nor faithfull minde with GOD The Children of Ephraim that turned aside like Warping bowes in the day of Battail and kept not the COVENANT of GOD and refuse-ed to walk in his LAW and forgot his Excellent ACTS and wonderfull WORKES which hee shewed them The WONDERS hee did in the feelds of the Citty ZOAN in the Land of Egypt hee claue the Sea a sunder and conveyed them over and made the Waters stand like a heap he lad them by a cloud in the day and all the night by fire-light Hee clave the rockes in the wildernes and gave drink as vvith store of Deepes hee brought floods out of the cliftes and made them run dovvn like riuers of vvater and yet they sinned again tovvards him vexing the most High in the Desert and tempted GOD in their mindes asking food for their bodyes and spake against GOD and SAYD Can GOD furnish a Table in the VVildernes Behold hee smote the Rock and Riuers of vvater issued out abundantly can hee also giue bread and prouide meat for his People and therfor the Euerlasting vvhen hee hard it vvas enrage-ed and fire kindle-ed in Jacob and also anger grevv great in Jsrael because they beleeued not in GOD TRVSTED not in his SALVATION And hee cōmaunded the Skyes aboue the doores of Heaven to open and rained vpō them MANNA to eat gaue them vvheat from Heauen Mē eate bread of Strength he sent thē victuall enough hee remooued the East winde in Heauen and by his strength brought in the South rained vpon them flesh like dust winged foul like the Sand of the Sea and made it lighte within his camp round about all his dwellings they did eate and wear well satisfyed and hee brought them their own longing they forsook nor their lustings while they wear yet eating the meat in their mouthes the anger of GOD increased among them he slew of the fattest of their men and bowed down the choise men of Israel For all this they sinned again beleeved not in his wonderfull Workes and hee ended their dayes in vanity and their yeers in terror Did they seek him whē hee slew them did they turn inquire after the Almighty did they remember that GOD was their safe Rock and the most Highe their Redeemer THE HALF BOOK Yea they deceived him with their mouthes lied vnto him with their tonges and their hart was not firm with him neither wear they faythfull in his COVENANT yet hee beeing mercyfull reconciled for the Iniquity and destroyed not and many times hee refrained his Anger and would not rouse vp all his Heat remembring that they wear flesh and a winde that passeth and cōmeth not again How often did they vex and greev him in the wildernes solitary Desertes and went tempted the ALL MIGHTY and limited the Holly one of Israel not remembring his hand in the day hee redeemed them from the Enimy what Signes WONDERS hee left in the Country of the Citty ZOAN in EGYPT how hee turned their rivers into blood and their brookes that they could not drink Hee sent flyes to devour them and frogs to destroy them he gave their increase to the Caterpiller their Toile to the Grass-hopper Hee beat their vines with Haile and their Figtrees with Hailstones and shut vp their Bease vnto the Hail and their Cattell to Flames of fire Hee sent among them a Message of euill Angels his hot Anger his VVrath and his tormenting Seuerity of Affliction Hee pondered a fit vvay for his Anger hee kept not their ovvn Persons back from death and their herds of Cattell hee shut vp to the Pestilence he Smote the first-born in Egypt and the prime of their strength in the Tabernacles of Ham. And remooued avvay his people and lad them like a flock in the VVildernes hee conducted them safly vvithout fear and the Sea ouervvhelmed their Enimyes and hee brought them to his holly borders this Hill vvhich his Right-hand conquered and droue out Nations before them and hee made them fall an Inheritance by Lot and the Tribes of Israel to dvvell in their Tabernacles And they tempted and angered GOD the most HIGH and kept not his TESTIMONYES and turned back and reuolted like their Fathers they turned aside like a vvarped bovv and they vexed him vvith their high places and tinned him vvith their graue-en Images GOD heard it and vvas enrage-ed and greatly reprooued Jsrael and hee forsook his Habitation in Shilo and his Tabernacle vvhich hee place-ed in Adam and gaue his STRENGH to captiuity and his GLORY into the hand of the Enimy and hee shut vp his People to the Svvord and vvas inrageed against his Inheritance The fire consumeed his yong men his maydes vvere not commended his Priestes fell by the Svvord ther vvas noe vveeping of his VVidovvs And the LORD avvaked vvith a noys like a strong-man asleep vvith VVine and smote the hinder part of his Enimyes and gaue them an Euerlasting reproche And hee refuse-ed the Tabernacle of Joseph and the Tribe of Ephraim hee liked not and hee chose the Tribe of Judah Mount Sion vvhich hee loued and hee built his Church most highe and founded it like the Erth for euerlasting And hee chose his Seruant Dauid and took him from the Sheepfolds hee took him from follovving the yevves vvith Lamb to feed his People in Jacob his INHERITANCE in Israel hee fed them vvith his vvhole hart and lad thē vvith all the skill of his handes LXXIX A Psalm of ASAPH O GOD the Hethen are come into thine INHERITANCE haue defileed thy holly Temple and brought Ierusalem to confusion They
are euen consumed and driuen out by oppression and I CALL on thee dayly ô ETERNALL and spread my palmes vnto thee Wilt thou doe a wonder vpon the Dead shall the deceased rise againe and confesse thee surely Shall thy LOV KINDENES bee told in the grave thy FAYTHFVLLNES in the place of destruction shall thy Miracles be manifested in the dark and thy wonderfull IVSTICE in the land of forgetfullnes that I when I shoute vnto thee my PRAYER come early before thee why doest thou reject mee and hide thy face from mee J beeing afflicted and yeelding vp the Ghost vvith trouble vvith bearing thy Terrors am amaseed thy sore Kindlings are vpon mee thy terrible Passions press mee They compasse about mee dayly like vvater and goe all-about ouer mee together Thou estrangest my Loueing freends from mee my familiar Acquaintance vvith obscurity LXXXIX A Mascil of Ethan the Ezrachite I Will euer SING the KINDENESSES of the ETERNALL to all Generatiōs make known thy FAITHFVLLNES with my mouth To wit The Kindenes that the world was built by and thy Faythfullnes which thou hast CONFIRMED in the Heavens I have made a Covenant sworne to my servant David I will establish thy seed for euer and build vp thy throne for all generatiōs surely And let the Heaven confesse thy wonderfullnes O ETERNALL yea thy FAYTHFVLLNES in the Congregation of the Holly ones For who among the children of the GODES in the cloudy skyes equalleth or may compare with the ETERNALL a terrible GOD in the counsell of the Holly ones and dreadfull over all that be about him O ETERNALL GOD of Warr who is so mighty a GOD as thou art and thy FAYTHFVLLNES about thee Thou rullest over the pride of the Sea and allayest the waves thereof when they rise the maine Ocean thou beatest down like a slain man with thy strong Arme scatterest thine Enimyes the Heavens are thine yea the Earth is thine the whole world and all the Implements therof for thou foundedst them the North and the South thou hast created them Tabor and Hermon to resound out thy Name Thou hast a conquering Arme and thy Right hand doth highly prevaile the firm Base of thy Throne is Iustice and Iudgement and Kindenes and Faythfullnes stand before thy face Happy are the People that know Triumphing and walk ô ETER in the Light of thy Countenaunce are dayly meery with thy NAME and Exalted with thy IVSTICE Because thou art the Ornament of their Strength and by thy good will is our Horne Exalted For our DEFENDOVR is the ETERNALLS our KING the Holly ones of Israel whē as thou spakest in a VISION to thy GRATIOVS ONE and SAYEDST J haue leuyed raysed and Ayde a Chose-en one out of the People aboue a VVORTHY J haue found my Seruant Dauid and Anoynted him vvith my holly oyle vvith vvhom my hand shall firmly bee mine ARME shall strengthen him No Enimye or Iniurious childe shall intercept him or oppresse him J vvill beat dovvn his foes them that hate him flat before him my FAYTHFVLLNES LOV KINDENES shall bee vvith him and in my NAME shall his Horne bee exalted vpon the Sea vpon the Riuers vvill J make his Right hand to bee Hee shall CALL mee O my Father my GOD Rock of my SALVATION I vvill make him my ELDEST-SONNE the SOVERAIGNE of all the Kinges of the Earth J vvill make his seed his Throne to bee for Euerlasting like the dayes of heauen if his children forsake my Law vvalk not in my JVDGEMENTS if they violate my PRESCRIPTIONS keep not my Commandements I vvill visit their Transgressions vvith Rods their Jniquity vvith Scourges but my Lov Kindenes vvill I not break off from him neither deal falsly in my Faythfullnes J vvill not violate my Covenant nor change the thing that is gon out of my Lipps I haue once SVVORNE in my HOLLYNES and shall J lye vnto David His Seed shall bee for euer his Throne as the Sunne before mee hee shall be established as firme as the Moone a faythfull witnes in the SKYE for euer surely And thou lothe-est and drawest back and art angry with thine ANOINTED Thou avoydest the COVENANT of thy Servant and defile-est his Garland one the ground thou hast broke-en down all his walles and made a ruine of all his Fortifications all Travailers by the way trample on him hee is a Reproche vnto his Neighbours Thou holdest vp the Right hand of his Foes make-est all his Enimyes glad yea thou turnest the edge of his sword and make-est it not to stand in the Battail thou make-est it rest from his brightnes and hast pulled down his Throne to the Ground Thou hast shortened the dayes of his youth and covered him over with Bashfullnes surely How long wilt thou continue hid and shall thy hot Anger burn like fire ô Remember thou of what continuance I am wherfor in vain hast thou create-ed all Human men what strong man is ther that shall not see death or his life shall escape from the hand of hell surely Wher are thy first KINDENESSES ô Lord which thou SWAREST to David in thy FAYTHFVLLNES Remember O LORD the Reproche of thy Seruāts which I put vp in my bosom of all the great ones of the Nations wher with thine Enimyes have reproched ô ETERNALL wher with thine Enimyes haue reproched the Steps of thine Anoynted Blessed bee the ETERNALL for ever Again and Again THE FOWRTH BOOK XC A Prayer of Moses the Man of GOD. O LORD thou hast been an Habitation for vs in all ages before the Hilles wear brought foorth and the Earth and whole Confusion had travailed in paine of birth and from one generation to another thou hast been our GOD. Thou bringest miserable man to a fragment and SAYEST Com againe yee Children of men For a thousand yeers in thy sighte is as yeesterday that is past and as a watch in the night Thou rainest them down and they are like a sleep in the morning hee is fresh like grasse that in the morning florisheth fresh and at evening is cut down and withered for in thine Anger and thy Heat wee are terribly consume-ed Thou settest our iniquityes before thee and our youthfullnes in the lighte of thy presence for all our DAYES glaunce by in thy wrath wee spend our yeers
upright men and are not many but have many adversaryes God will by their own consistance of righteousnes and peace the fruit therof subdue their Enimyes and bring their Enimy the Devill and Satan underfoot which shall fall by their own wrong and perish by their wicked wayes for what can bee the fruit of wrong but destruction By the flowerishing rod of Iustice and judgement the strength of the Law and ten commandements out of Sion ten stâ—inged instrument of the Decalogue Ps. 92.98 Hee shall subdue them and rule among them for their wrongfull resisting the promiss and their right to Canaan Which rod of governement that divideeth waters and bringeth doctrine out of hard rockes of Scripture beeing once cast out of their handes was turned to serpent like Enimyes of God as Ps. 92. But Moses was shewed by catching it by the taile and the returning to a rod that they should have the governement again which should bee an iron rod and hard governement as Ps. 2. to the Resisters For his battail hee will have none but Levites and the first born the flower and choise of the wombe and seed of woman the best lerned in the Church The right hand and dexterity of the Ministry shall wound kings his Enimyes and heades of them as Ps. 68. when hee is angry even the head of the Arch-enimy the King of the land of Rabbah of the Amonites by uncrowning him and tortureing the bodyes of his people striveing with him Hee drank of the river of doctrine the discipline of the Law Ps 36. Thus by the Church shall God bring Davids Enimyes under his feet and hee shall conquer and hold up his head as Ps. 92. and shall bee a Priest for ever Is. 61. like Melchizedeq not born of flesh and blood nor of the will of man Io. 1. but of the spirit of God and to walk with God without father and without mother without beginning or end of the dayes of life or any worldly respect And hee shall sit at Gods right hand Ps. 16. and continue in speciall favour and grace with God for the Eternity of the Church And this from the conquest of the Serpent Gen. 3. For the Instrument of subjection and goverment for the sweetnes of majesty Lordship Rule and Dominion and victory of ש Shin over Sin yee sheep to the right hand and yee goates to the left Iamin over Smol the right hand over the left the Ministry over the devill and Satan and all temptation Psal. 119. Sh. Construction Quoph to compass or besiege is expressed by Enimyes as Ps. 17. that are all wayes attempting mischeeff invadeing upon all sides which is the subdole and hurtfull serpent Ge. 3. to the Church The second letter Iod for a hand is expounded by the right hand the Ministry favour and pre-emenence of God Mark the repetition Hee sheweth how the armed with the word Sem or Melchizedeqs Kingdom Isa. 33. the seed of Sion Is. 2. They are the destruction of the Serpent and his adherents by the power and glory of the Kingdom and â—eople of â—xpedition Ps. 68. in the Church Mark the wordes head and wound repeated day when Lord and judgement c. Hee alludeeth also to the dexter point that makeeth ש Shin that signifyeth weaponed men as Ps. 68.119 N. and the victory the inevitable power of Gods mâ—ssuage Mich. 4.5 2. Sam. 17. like dew over the Heathen and the head of them Mark how Shin is compassed with the next letters on both sides Resh and Tau in the first and last wordes to shew the allusion Deuteronomy The recitation is God wil have it is own work and the victory his and that a wonderfull work and way of the Law and word of God the rivers in the Law called the way Ier. 31. conceived and born in Sion And the Serpent by a Gospell preached the river of wisdom out of Sion Prov. 18. shall bee made to stoope for a footstoole and to lick the dust Psal. 72. and heathen Kings subdued and Archenimyes conquered and the head of his Anointed shall bee exalted that medleth not So that with the armour of God and his hoste and excercise only the Serpents head is brokeen And this is a great kindenes Ps. 119. N. Ps. 68. And such were the soldiers of Christ of another world preachers and not fighters Ioh. 18. tormentors of the divills free men and voluntary 1. Cor. 6. Ps. 119. N. Ps. 68. Spirituall men against spirituall Adversaryes Mat. 8. PSALM CXI HEer hee passeth from the Instrument to the work according to the order in Ps. 92. to shew us the miraculous effect of the Law and covenant and promiss which in his mercy and compassion hee preached to his people hee recorded to feed them And the mightynes of the work of God by this Instrument of his appeareth by his conquest of the heathen and recovery of their country again out of so many strong handes and lions clawes consisting in truthe and certainty and judgement justice and mercy and the fear of God wherin it excelled Wherby it becommeth durable and credible for at end of the 430 and after the fourth generation intended in the vers Lamed and again in Tau hee sendeth for his Church out of Aegypt by his covenant and his promiss in the handes of Moses Aaron feeding them all that space by faith in his promiss and covenant which hee made last for ever unto them and redeemed them And because this Instrument beeing vseed for all their delightes and sportes by his everlasting Iustice worketh also great worship and honour wisdom which is begunn in the fear of God their profession and perfected by performing the Law as ps 99. Hee willeth the same evermore to bee reverenceed and hallowed And because his works by this Instrument are so many so mighty so great so sweet and delightfull and searchable hee willeth all the whole Church in all meetings to prais and worship God as hee will doo the same himself with all his hart And this from the promiss Gen. 15. for the spirits of the Law and works of performance and possession of Canaan for the Spirit and worship and reverence and fear of God the profession that beginneth wisdom and therfor together with the next psalme is made by the Abce also the 119. wher the performance of the Law bringeth good understanding To perform the commandements satisfyeth this Appitite and temptation and the Kingdom of heaven hath all Hee that is wise will undeâ—stand and observe thes things Io. 14. Christ calleth himself the way the truthe and the life which hee spake hebraically This to bee translateed into our phrase is the true and liveing way or the true and very way of life And this consisting so much of the grace of God and so much of faith and truthe that it is beyond all imagination his work and his way is called so wonderfull is fitt matter for continuall prais dayly worship repetition the subject of
thou only ô ETERNALL makeest mee abide in safety V. For the Maister vpon the winde Musicque A Psalme of David O ETERNALL marke my wordes vnderstand my MEDITATION hearken to my complaint my KING and GOD when I pray vnto thee ô Eternall betimes in the morning heare my voice assoone as I awake and frame it to thee Because thou art not a God delighted in vvickednes neither doth any evill inhabit thee there stand no vain boasters in thy sight thou hatest all vvrong dooers thou destroyest Lyers bloudy and deceitfull men the Eternall abhorreth Therefore I in thy great Kindnesse come into thine house and in thy feare vvorship at thy holy Temple lead mee ô Eternall by thy RIGHTEOVSNES and make thy vvayes plain before mee because of mine Enimies for ther is no firme thing in their mouthes they are smoothe tonged and they haue throates like open Graues and thoughtes full of corruption Make them desolate ô God let them fall by their counsells beat them dovvne vvith their mighty trespasses for rebelling against thee that all that trust in thee and love thy Name may bee glad and reioyce in thee triumph in thy Protection for ever hovv thou blessest the Righteous ô Eternall and guárdest him vvith a gratious shield VI. For the Master in Song Musicque vpon the Octava A Psalme of David O ETERNALL rebuke me not in thine anger nor correct mee in thy choler have pitty on mee ô ETERNALL fór my bones be astónished and my mind much troubled because thou art so long Come ô ETERNALL release my life and save mee for thy Mercies sake for in death there is no thinking on thee and in the grave who shall thanke thee I am weary of my gronings every night I wet my bed and make my pallet flow with teares Mine eye-sight is decayed with griefe my coúlour is gone by mine enemies meanes away from mee all yee molesters the ETERNALL hath heard my weeping hath heard my supplication the ETERNALL accepteth my prayer Ashame and great astonishment be on all mine Enemies let them all come to sodaine shame VII Davids Song of Error which hee sang concerning Cush the Ieminite O ETERNALL ô my God save mee that put my trust in thee and deliver mee from all my pursuers least they teare mee and devoure mee like Lions and I haue no deliuerer ô ETERNALL my God if I haue don any such iniury if my handes haue don any such wrong as this if I haue rewarded him that payed mâ—e ill and requited him that tormented mee for nothing then surely let the Enimy pursúe mee and overtake mee and lay mine honour in the dust and tred my life on the ground Vp ô Eternall in thine anger advance thy selfe for my tormentors and let mee haue the iudgement which thou hast ordeined yea get thee vp on high with a number of people about thee the Eternall that iudgeth the folke iudge mee ô ETERNALL according to my RIGHTEOVSNES and perfection which is on mee O God thou IVST one examiner of the hart and reynes Let the malice of the wicked haue an end and set thou fast the Iust. My defence is vpon God that saveth the VPRIGHT in hart God is a iust Iudge and a severe God allwayes if a man return not he whets his sword and bends his bow and makes it ready and prepares him deadly weapons and makes his arrows for persecutors Lo hee that conceiueth pain and is great with sorrow and bringeth forth falshood deggeth a pitt and vndermineth it and falleth into it when hee hath made it His mischeeff commeth vpon his owne head and his cruelty lighteth on his owne crown I thank the Eternall for his IVSTICE and praise his most high Name VIII A Psalme of David for the Maister vpon the Gitt O ETERNALL our God how noble art thou in all the earth and worshipfull aboue the heavens thou hast made sucking children in respect of thine Afflictors able with their mouthes to put to silence the moste spitefull Enimy When I look vpon the hevens of thy fingers makeing and the Moon and the starrs of thine appointment I wonder thou hast such a minde to a wreched creature and lookest so well vnto man Thou hast made him want litle of God thou hast crowned him with Glory and worship Thou makest him ruller ouer thy work and puttest all vnder him all sheep and oxen and beasts and foul and fish travailing the pathes of the seas ô Eternall our God how noble art thou in all the erth IX For the Maister of Musicque vpon the Death of the Sonn I Thank the ô ETERNALL with all my hart and set foorth all thy wonders thou madeest mee exceeding glad and to chaunt out thy Name ô Moste-highe for turning mine enimies back which fell and perished before thee for thou hast giuen foorth my iudgement and sentence like a righteous Iudge thou hast chid the Heathen and destroyed the wicked wipeed out their name for euer and all Thou hast broken down their Citties they be consumed and ly waste and their memory is perished for euer The ETERNALL sitteth euer ready for iudgement to iudge the world righteously sentence the people iustly and to bee a refuge for the oppressed a refuge at times of destresse and let them that know thy name trust in thee for thou forsakest none that seek thee ô ETERNALL Chaunt yee to the ETERNALL in Sion tell the people his excellent acts How hee that findes out blood will remember them not forget the cry of the poore Haue pitty on mee ô ETERNALL behold my oppression by them that hate mee ô thou that takeest mee vp from deathes dore That I may shew all thy PRAISES in the gates of Sion beeing glad of thy saluation The Heathen are sunk into the pitt which they made themselues and are caught in a nett of their owne laying Surely the SENTENCE of the ETERNALL that doth iudgement is manifest The wicked is snareed by the work of his owne handes thought also The wicked shall goe to Hell and all Nations that forget God but the poore shall not still be forgotteÌ„ nor the hope of the afflicted perish for euer Vp ô Eternall let not woefull men prevaile let the Heathen be iudged in thy sight teách
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
out his handy worke Day vpon day and night vpon night it vttereth speech and manifesteth knowledge and in all languages their tonge is vnderstood For their Rulles goe over all the erth and their wordes are heard in the farthest part of the worlde In them hath hee made a dwelling for the SVNN that riseth like a Bridegroome coming out of his Bride Chamber cheerfull like a strong man to runn a race The end of all the Hevens is his going out and his compasse towards the endes thereof that nothing can be hid from the heat thereof The LAW of the ETERNALL is most perfect and converteth the minde his Testimony is faithfull to advise the simple The Statutes of the ETERNALL are plain and cheere the hart The Commandement of the ETERNALL is pure and lighteneth the eyes the feare of the ETERNALL continueth euer cleare the Iudgements of the ETERNALL are true and Iust. They are better to mee then gold yea then much fine gold and sweeter then honny and the dropping of the honny combes Yea by them is thy Servant warned and for keeping of them I haue good reward There is no man that vnderstandeth all his owne faultes wherefoâ—e clense mee from my hidden ones and restrain thy Servant from proud presumptions that they doe not overcome mee That I may be perfect and cleere of much transgression and all my wordes and thoughts be in acceptation before thee ô ETERNALL my Creator and Redeemer XX. For the Cheeff A Psalme of David THE ETERNALL heare thee in thy destresse the CALLING vpon the God of Iacob fortifie thee and send the help from his Holy place and support from Sion and thinke vpon thy meat offerings and fatten thy burnt offerings surely and giue the thy hartes desire and fullfill thy minde That wee may sing out vpon thy salvation and in the NAME of our God put vp our coulours Now I know the Eternall saveeth his anointed by the vertuous salvation of his right hand and heareth him from the heavens of his Sanctuary Som set their mindes on chariots and som on horses but wee make allwayes mention of the NAME of our God the Eternall They haue crouched and are fallen but wee stand vp and are yet remaining The ETERNALL save the King and heare vs when wee call XXI For the Cheeff A Psalme of David O ETERNALL let the King reioyce in thy STRENGTH and be very glad for thy Salvation Thou hast given him what his heart could wish and denyed him nothing that his lips requested Surely Thou hast set before him many blessings and hast put a crowne of fine gold vpon his head and thou hast giuen him the life hee asked of thee long dayes everlasting and perpetuall Great is his glory by thy Salvation worship and honour thou hast layd vpon him because thou puttest vpon him blessings perpetually and makest him cheerfull before thee and seing the King trusteth in the ETERNALL by the Grace of the moste High hee shall not bee mooved Let thy hand finde out all thine Enimies and thy right hand them that hate thee Sett them as a firy oven at the time of thy presence that the ETERNALL in his anger may devour them and his fire consume them Destroy their fruit and let their seed fade away from among men for intending euill against thee and imagining mischeâ—ff beyond their might Set them as a butt and vpon thy string make ready against their facees Be thou exalted ô ETERNALL in thy STRENGTH that wee may sing out thy power and chaunt thy worthynes XXII For the Cheeff vpon Ajeleth Hashahar A Psalme of David MY God my mighty God why hast thou left mee and art farre from my Salvation considering my roaring My God I cry all day and thou answerest not and all night and haue no attendance and thou the Holy one that inhabitest all the PRAYSES of Israel In thee our Fathers trusted and thou reskuedst them to thee they cryed and were delivered in thee they trusted and were never abashed But I am as a worm and not a man the skorn of men and the basest of all the people every one that seeth mee mocketh mee and they lett passe with their lips wagging their heads Hee trusted in the ETERNALL let him reskew him let him deliver him because hee hath delight in him Because thou wast my creeping out of the belly and my trust vpon my mothers brest vpon thee was I cast from the bearing and thou hast been my MIGHTY God from my Mothers womb ô bee not thou farre from mee when my destresse is at hand and there is none to help mee Many mighty bulles of Bashan inviron mee about they com with open mouthes vpon mee like roaring and preying Lions My bones are fallen out of ioint my hart is like molten wax in the midle of my bowells and I am powered out like water my virtue is as dry as a sheard and my tong steeks to my iawes and thou puttest mee even in the dead dust For a company of malitious doggs are come about mee and like Lions teare mee hand and foot They stand looking on mee while I tell all my bones they divide my clothes among them and cast lotts for my garments but thou ô ETERNALL be not farre from mee make haste to help mee ô my MIGHTY-ONE Deliver my life from the sword and my solitary soul from the doggs save mee from the Lions denn and from the Vnicorns hornes receive mee I may declare thy Name to my Bretheren and in the midle of the congregation praise thee All yee that feare the ETERNALL praise yee him yee that are of Iacobs SEED glorifie him and all yee the SEED of Israel stand in aw of him For he doth not despise nor disdain the MISERY of the afflicted nor hideeth his face from him but heareth him when hee cryeth vnto him From thee shall bee my Praise in the great Congregation and I will pay my vows before them that feare him that the lowly ones may eat their fill they that seek him praise the ETERNALL that your harts may be refreshed perpetually Let all the endes of the erth haue minde to com to the ETERNALL and all families of the Hethen worship before thee For all KINGDOM is the ETERNALLS hee rulleth the Nations Let all the ashes of the erth worship and eat and all that are going to dust and they whose liues haue no
violence breatheth out Certainly I trust to see the GOODNES of the ETERN before I dye Therefore waite thou on the ETERN waite valiantly on the ETERNALL and hee will strengthen your hart XXVIII Of David TO thee ô ETERNALL did I CRY Heare the voice of my SVPPLICATION ô my ROCK vvhen I shout vnto thee and hold vp my hands at thy holly Oracle and not be deaff tovvards mee lesse at thy Silence I be like one going to his Grave I cryed dravv mee not vvith vvicked and mischeevous men that speake peaceably and freendly vvith their Neighbours and haue malice in their hartes I CRYED Giue such according to their Labours and according to their VVicked inventions giue them according to their ovvne hand vvorks and cast them a full Revvard And seeing they vnderstand not the DEEDS of the ETERN nor the VVORK of his handes let him destroy them vvholy and not build them vp Blâ—ssed be the ETERNALL he hath hard the VOICE of my SVPPLICATION The ETERNALL my Strength and my Defence in whom my hart trusteth and I am holpen and my hart is cheered and with my song will I prayse him the ETER that is the Strength of his people and strong Saluation of his Annointed ô Saue thy people and blesse thine Inheritance and feed them and succour them for ever XXIX A Psalme of David YEeld vnto the ETE yee GODLY-ONES yeeld vnto the ETERN all GLORY and STRENGTH Yeeld GLORY vnto the Name of the ETERN and worship him with holly Decency The VOICE of the ETER is on the waters the God of GLORY thundâ—eth on the great waters his VOICE is with MIGHT and MAIESTY The VOICE of the ETERNALL breaketh the Ceders the ETERNALL shivereth the Ceders of Libanon and maketh them daunce like a Calf and all Libanon and Shirion like a Vnicorns colt the VOICE of the ETERNALL cutteth with firy flames the VOICE of the ETERN punisheth the Wildernes the VOICE of the ETERNALL punisheth the great Desert of Cadesh The VOICE of the ETERNALL makeeth the Forests bare and tormenteth the deer and all that ever bee sayeth in his Temple is GLORYOVS The ETERNALL sitteth on the flood the ETERNALL abideth KING for ever the ETE giveth his People STRENGTH and blesseth them with PEACE XXX A Psalme Song of the Didication of the House of David I Will Extoll thee ô ETERNALL for thou hast raised mee and hast not suffered my foes to triumph at mee ô ETERNALL my God I shouted vnto thee for help and thou didst heale mee ô ETERNALL thou hast taken mee out of the Skull thou hast revived mee that I should not goe down to the Pitt Chaunt to the ETERN ô yee his Saintes and Celebrate his Holly REMEMBRANCE For hee is but a moument in his anger and in his loving favour is LIFE At night hee will suffer weeping but on the Morrow they shall sing out for ioy As I thought when I was at ease I should never be moved ô ETERNALL in thy Goodwill hadst setled my hill so fast thou turnedst away thy face I was stroken amazed Then I CRYED vnto the ô ETERN and besought the ETERNALL vvhat availeth my blood if I goe dovvne into the Pitt Shall the dust confesse thee shall the dust declare thy TRVTHE hear mee ô ETERNALL and have pitty on mee be thou my helper turn my mourning to daunceing take of my sack cloth gird Gladnes about mee that GLORY may chaunt thee out and never cease and I may thank thee ô ETERNALL my God for ever XXXI For the Cheeff A Psalme of David ON thee ô ETERNALL doe I relye let mee never be abashed rescue mee by thy RIGHTEOVSNES harken to mee and deliver mee with speed be thou my Strong-hold and house of Munitions to save mee because thou art my ROCK and GVARISON also for thy NAMES sake lead mee and guide mee bring mee out of the Net which they haue privily layd to catch mee because thou art my Strength I put my life in thy hands redeem thou mee ô ETERNALL ransom mee ô God of TRVTH I hate all such as obserue false-vanities I trust onely in the ETERN I reioyce mightily of thy LOVEING KINDENES because thou hast seen my Misery and knovvn my Destresses and hast not shut mee vp in mine Enimyes handes but hast set my feet at liberty Have pitty on mee ô ETER for I am in great DETRESS mine eyes are decayed my very soul my bovvels vvithin mee are consumed vvith Greeff for my life is spent in Sorrovv and my yeers in Sighing my Bones are consumed and all my Strength is gon through mine Iniquity I am revileed of my Besiegers and my next Neighbours skorn mee out of measure mine Acquaintance are afrayed of mee and vvhen they see mee in the Street flye from mee I am clean out of their minde and quite forgotten like a dead man and like a broken vessel good for Nothing For I heare a horrible report of many and of their Plotting together against mee and hovv they deuise to take avvay my life but I put my trust vpon thee ô ETERN I say still thou art my GOD my time is in thy hand deliver mee from mine Enimyes and Persecutors shew thy Countenance vpon thy Servant and saue mee with thy LOVEING KINDENES O ETERN let mee not be abashed of calling vpon thee let the Wicked be abashed and hold their tonges in the ground and all false lips that speak arrogantly proudly and spitefully against the IVST be made dumb Wonderfull great in the sight of men is thy Goodnes which thou layest vp for them that feare thee and doest for them that put their trust in thee Thou hideest them in the secret Chamber of thy Presence from Combrous men and keepest them close in thy Tabernacle from quarellings tonges Blessed be the ETERNALL for hee hath shewed mee wonderfull KINDENES in a strict Citty when I foolishly thought I was clean cutt off from thy sight yet thou hardest the voice of my Supplication as I shouted vnto thee Loue yee the ETERNALL all his Holly-ones for the ETERN preserveth the FAITHFVLL and rewardeth the proud doer in abundance Therfore all yee that waite for the ETERN be of good cheere and hee will strengthen your hartes XXXII A Mascil or Vers of David
thy Lipes are povvred full of Grace therfore thy GOD hath blessed thee for euer Gird on thy Svvord vpon thy thigh like a valiant man gird on thy VVorship and thine Honour Ride thou vpon the VVord of Truth and meek Iustice increase thine honour thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things For by thy sharp Arrovvs in the hart of the Kings Enimyes the people shall fall dovvn vnder thee Evermore thy THRONE is GOD and the Septer of VPRIGHTNES is the Septer of thy KINGDOM Thou lovest RIGHTEOVSNES and hate-est WICKEDNES therfor thine own GOD hath annoynted thee with the Oyle of Ioy above thy fellows The edges of all thy Garments don with Myrrh and Aloes out of the Ivory closets of Minni doe delighte thee Kings Daughters are in thy dignityes and at thy right hand doth stand thy Bedfellow all in fine gold of Ophir O Daughter hearken well consider and turne thine Eare and forget thy Nation and thy Fathers House the King shall be in Love with thy Bewty be thou Lowly to him for hee is thy Lord the rich men of Tyre shal intreat thee with Presents The Kings Daughter is moste Glorious vvithin vvith her clothes of golden Imbrodery of Needlevvork shall shee be brought to the King after her the virgines that be her companions shal be brought vnto thee vvith ioy Mirth shall they be brought flovving into the Kings Court. In steed of thy Fathers thou shalt haue sonnes to set Princees in all Countryes Therfore I will make thy Name a Memoriall in all Generations for the people to Publish confesse thee for evermore XLVI A Song for the Cheeff of the Sonnes of Corah vpon Alamoth GOD is our stronge RELYE ready Helpe in distresses Therfore wee fear not at the CHANGE of the erth At the mooveing of Mountaines into the midle of the Sea at the Rorering and boyling of the VVaters nor at the Shakeing of Mountaines vvith the Pride thereof Surely His holly chanells doe cheer the Citty of GOD and delighterh the Dwellings of the HIGHE GOD is in the middest of it it can not be stirred GOD will help it betimes before the morninge springs The Hethen raged and the Kingdomes weare in a commotion Hee vttered his VOICE and the Earth melted The warlike ET is with vs the GOD of Iacob is our RELEEF surely Com and behold the miraculous ACTS of the ETERN what Desolations hee hath made in the earth Ceasing tho wars vnto the end of the erth that Shivereth the bowes and cutteth the speares in peeces and burneth the chariots ìn the fire Hold your handes know that I am GOD and will be exalted in all Nations of the worlde The warlike ETERNALL is with vs the GOD of Iacob is our RELEEFF surely XLVII A Psalm for the Cheeff of the Sonnes of Corah ALL people clap your handes triumph vnto GOD with a loude voice for the ETERN is a dread SOVERAIGNE and a great KINGE over all the earth Hee hath subdued Diverse people vnder vs and Nations vnder our feet and chose vs our INHERITANCE the very Pride of Iacob surely GOD the ET is gon vp with the shrill sound of the Trumpet ô sing Psalmes to GOD ô sing Psalmes to our KING because GOD is KING of all the Earth sing a MASCIL Palme GOD SITTETH vpon his holly Throne and Raigneeth over the Heathen the Principall people are gathered together but because the DEFENSES of the earth are GODES The People of Abrahams GOD is much preferred XLVIII A Psalm-Song by the Sonnes of Corah GREAT is the ETERNALL in the CITTY of our GOD his Holly HILL very renowmed Mount Sion the Citty of the great KING on the North side standing faire and lofty the Ioy of all the earth GOD is certainly her DEFENSE in her Battelments For behold VVhen Kings vvere assembled they passed by at once vvhen they Savv they mervilled they vver terrifyed and astonied ther a trembling took them and a Paine as of a vvoman in travaile of child vvith an East vvinde thou brakest the Ships of TarShish According as wee have heard and SEEN in the Citty of our GOD the warlike ETERNALL GOD will establish it for ever surely Wee think thy LOVEING KINDNES is with in thy Temple ô GOD thy NAME and thy PRAYSE is over the endes of the worlde for thy Righte hand is full of IVSTICE Let Mount Sion reioyce and all the Townes of Iudah be glad for thy JVDGEMENTS Goe round about Sion and compasse it and tell her Towers think vpon her Trenches consider her Platformes that you may tell it to another Generation for this shall be our ONELY GOD for evermore Hee hath brought vs over Death XLIX For the Cheeff of the Sonnes of Corah A Psalme HEARKEN hither all yee Nations and hear this all yee that inhabit the Continent Every Human wighte aswell rich as poore my mouth shall speak WISDOM and my hart think of VNDERSTANDING I will turn mine eares to a PARABLE and open my RIDLE vpon the Harp VVhy should I FEAR in dayes of Misery vvhen the Iniquity of my heeles is round about mee Men trust in their vvelth and glory in their great riches no man shall redeeme his Brother nor giue a price to God for him the Redemption of their liues is so deer that hee should stay for ever and liue continually and and not see the Pitt Hee see-eth that VVisemen dye and that Bruteish Sots doe perish together and leave their vvelth to others They think theire Houses shall indure for ever and their Dvvellings for all Generations and call them by their Names vpon their Landes but Man lodge-eth not in Honour and is ouercom like vnto Dumb Beastes This their VVAY is a Sottery to them and they that com after them vvill vvellcom it vvith their mouthes Surely They shall lye like Sheep in the Pitt Death shall devoure them straightvvay they shall haue Dominion over them And the Pitt shall vveare out their shape as soone as they be from their dvvelling house in it But GOD vvill redeem my life from the Brinck of hell because hee hath accepted mee surely FEARE not when a man goeth rich and the Glory of his house groweth great for
all vvilde-beasts creep abroad the young Lions roaring for Prey to seek their meat from the Almighty VVhen the Sunn riseth they are couched together in their dens that man may goe foorth to his vvork and to his Husbandry till the Euening Hovv many are thy VVORKES ô ETERN all that thou hast don by VVISDOM the Earth is full of thy Indevour The great and vvide reaching SEA vvher are creeping liuing Creatures small great vvithout number VVher Ships doe goe and LEVIATHAN that thou hast formed to sport therin vvhich all doe hope vpon thee to giue thē their meat in his time Thou openest thy hand and giue-est them and they gather and are vvell Satisfied Thou hide-est thy FACE and they are astonyed thou take-est avvaye their breth and they yeld vp the Ghost and turn again to their Dust. Thou sendest out thy SPIRIT and they are CREATED again and thou Renewest the face of the Earth That the GLORY of the ETER may be for euer and the ETER REIOYCE in his WORKES which looketh vpon the EARTH and it trembleth and toucheth the MOVNTAINES and they Smoke J will sing Psalmes vnto the ETERN my GOD as long as I live and because my SPEECH of him is sweet I will REIOYCE in the ETERN That VVicked Sinners be consumed out of the Earth and be no more therin BLESSE the ETERN ô my SOVLE the ETERNALL be PRAYSED CV WORSHIP yee the ETERNALL CALL vpon his NAME make KNOWEN his EXCELLENT ACTS among the Nations sing Psalmes vnto him and speak of all his Wonderous Works Boast yee in his holly NAME Let their hart bee meery that seek the ETER Inquire for the STRENGTH of the ETERN and euermore seek his FACE Remember the WONDERFVLL MIRACLES which hee hath don the STATVTS of his mouth yee Seed of his Servant Abraham his chosen yee Children of Iacob The very ETER our GOD his STATVTES are in all the Earth The Word of his COVENANT which hee REMEMBRED for ever and commanded to a thousand Generations which hee made with Abraham and his othe vnto Isaac and made it stand for a DECREE to Jacob and to Israel an Everlasting COVENANT SAYING Vnto thee will I giue the Land of Canaan the line of your Inheritance When they wer small of Number and few and Strangers in it When they went from Nation to Nation and from one Kingdom to another People Hee Suffered noe man to oppresse them and REPROVE-ED Kinges for them Touch yee not mine ANOYNTED doe my PROPHETS no harme When hee called a Famine vpon the Land and brake all the Stay of bred hee sent one before them evē Ioseph that was sold for a slaue whose feet they hurt in the Stocks that the iron went to his Soul Till the time the WORD of the ETERNALL came and his SAYING tryed him the King sent to loose him and the Ruller of the People to inlarge him and made him Lord of his House and Ruller ouer all his Provision To instruct his Prince-es in his will and to teache his Elders wisdon When Israel was com into Egypt and Iacob was a Strange-er in the Land of Ham and his People were very fruitfull and hee had made them stronger then their Besiegers hee had turned their harts to hate his People and to conspire against his Servantes Hee sent Moses his Servant and Aaron whom hee chose that they might bring among them word of his Signes and MJRACLES in the Land of Ham. Hee sent darknes and made it dark and they disobeyed not his commandements hee turned their Waters in to blood and killed their fish their Land crauled full of froges in their Kings Chambers Hee commaunded and Swarmes of Flyes and Lice came in all their borders hee gave them showers of haile and flameing fire in their Land hee smote their Vines and their Fig-trees and broke the Trees of their borders Hee commanded and ther came Chafers and Caterpillars innumerable and did eat vp all the green grass of their Land and devoured the fruit of their Ground And smote all the first born of their Land the Prime of all their Strength and brought them foorth with Siluer and Gold and not one feeble Man was among their Tribes Egypt vvas glad of their goeing out because their Terror vvas fallen vpon them Hee spred a Cloude for a VAJLE and fire to giue Lighte in the nighte They requested and hee brought Quailes and satisfied them vvith Bread of Heauen Hee opened the Rock and the vvaters issued out and rann like a Riuer in the Dry place-es for hee Remembred his Sacred VVORD vvith his Seruant Abraham and brought foorth his Chosen PEOPLE vvith Joy and TRIVMPH and Gave them the Countryes of the Heathen and the paines of the Nations to possesse That they may keep his PRESCRIPTS and obserue his LAVV. The ETERNALL be praised CVI. PRAISE the ETERNALL GOD ô Worship the ETERNALL for his GOODNES and because his LOVEING-KINDENES is for euer Who is ther that can Particular out his VIRTVES sound out all his PRAISE HAPPY are they that obserue RIGHTE and hee that doeth IVSTICE at at all times ô ETERN think vpon mee and visit mee with the favourable SALVATION of thy People that I may ioyfully look vpon the JOY and WELTH of thy chosen People and be come an Actor of thy PRAYSES with thine INHERITANCE VVee haue Sinned vvith our Fathers and don frovvardly and vvickedly Our Fathers considered not and thought not vpon thy vvonderfull and great KINDENESSES in Egypt and they Rebelled at the Sea-side by the Red Sea and for his NAMES sake he saued them to make knovvn his VIRTVE hee Rebuked the Red Sea that it vvas dry as a vvildernes and lad them in the DEEPS And Saued them and quit them from the hands of their Heynous Enimyes and the vvaters ouervvelmed their Besiegers that not one of them remained And they beleeued his VVORD and sung his PRAYSE They soon forgate his DOINGS and attended not to his COVNSELL and longed a longing and tempted the ALMIGHTY GOD in the vvast VVildernes And hee gaue them their Request and hee sent a REPJNEJNG in their mindes and they freated at Moses in the Camp and at Aaron the Holly one of the ETERNALL that the Earth opened and svvallovved vp Dathan and ouercouered the Assembly of Abiram and fire kindled in their Assembly and the Flames burnt vp the VVICKED ONES They made a Molten Calf
in Horeb and Worshiped it and change-ed their GLORY for the Feature of an Oxe that eateth grasse They forgat GOD their SAVIOVR that did GREAT THJNGES in Egypt and WONDERFVLL THINGS in the Land of Ham and TERRIBLE THJNGES at the RED SEA And hee thought to smite them but Moses his chosen stood in the Breach before him to turn again his Heat from destroying And they Refused the DELIGHTFVLL Land and beleeued not his WORD and Murmured in their Tentes and hearkened not on the VOJCE of the ETERNALL and hee took vp his Hand against them to overthrow them in the Wildernes and to overthrow their Seed and Skater them among the Countryes of the Heathen And they wear yoked to Baal-Peor and did eat the Sacrifice-es of the Dead And they VEXED with their DEVISES that the Plague break out among them and Phineas stood vp and prayed and the PLAGVE was restrained and it was counted RIGHTEOVSNES to him for all Generations for euer And they ANGERED at the Waters of Meribhah that hee punished MOSES for them When they VEXED his Minde and hee Muttered with his Lips They smote not the Nations vvhich the ETERNALL commanded them and they vvere mingled among the Heathen and lerned their VVORKES and serued their Idoles and they vvear a SNARE vnto them and they Sacrifice-ed their Sonnes and their Daughters to DESTROYERS they povvred out INNOCENT blood The blood of their Sonnes and Daughters which they Sacrifice-ed to the Idoles of Canaan That the Earth vvas couered vvith Blood and they vvere poluted vvith their WORKS going a vvhoreing in their ENTERPRISE-ES And the ANGER of the ETERNALL kindled against his People and hee abhorred his INHERITANCE and gaue them into the hands of the Heathen and they that hate-ed them vvear commanders ouer them their Enimyes oppressed them and they vvear humbled vnder their hand Many times hee deliuered them vvhen they had Vexed him vvith their COVNSELLS that they vvear brought lovv for their Jniquity and considered vvhen they vvere in Distresse by his hearing their Crye and Remembred his Couenant to them and vas Comfortable according to his great KINDENESSES and took them to MERCY before all their Captiuers Saue vs O ETERNALL our GOD and gather vs from among the Heathen to worship thy HOLLY NAME to delighte our selues in thy PRAYSE Blessed bee the ETERNALL the GOD of Israel from Everlasting and to Everlasting and let all the People say Amen The ETERNALL be praysed THE FIFTH BOOK CVII WORSHIP the ETERNALL for his GOODNES and LOVEING KINDENES that is for euer Let the RANSOMED of the ETERNALL vvhom hee hath ransomed from the hand of the Tormentor and gathered from the Countryes East VVest North and South that vvandered in a Desolation vvithout a vvay in the VVildernes and found noe dvvelling Citty hungry thirsty that their soules fainted in them and they Cryed to the ETERNALL in their Distresse and hee deliuered them out of their Streits and directed them a right vvay to goe vnto a dvvelling Citty SAY Let men confesse the wonderfull KINDENES of the ETERNALL to the children of men Because hee satisfyed the thirsty Soul the hungry soul hee vvell filled Let THEM that dvvelt in obscure Darknes PRISONERS afflicted vvith iron because they disobeyed the SAYINGS of the ALLMJGHTY and set lighte by the COVNSELLS of the moste HIGH That hee brought dovvn their harts vvith Sorrovv and they fell and had noe Helper and they Cryed vnto the ETERNALL in their Distresse and hee holp them out of their streit troubles hee brought them out of the obscure DARKENES and brake their BANDES CONFESSE the wonderfull KINDENES of the ETERNALL to the children of men Because hee brake the brasen dores and cut off the bars of iron FOOLES that by meanes of their transgressions and Jniquityes are afflicted that their soules abhorre all meat and are euen at deathes dore and they Crye vnto the ETERNALL in their DISTRESSE and hee helpeth them out of their streit troubles That sendeth his VVORD and healeth them and reskevveth them from their Destructions Let THEM confesse the wonderfull KINDENES of the ETERNALL to the children of men Let them Sacrifice sacrifice-es of THANKS and declare his VVORKS vvith TRIVMPH They vvhich goe to Sea in Ships and doe buissines in the Great Waters They vvhich see the Wonderfull Works of the ETERNALL in the Deep Hovv hee commandeth a Stormvvinde to rise and it raiseth the vvaues therof that they mount vp to Heauen and descend dovvn to the Deeps that their Soules doe melt vvith Misery they runn about reeling like dronken men and all their skill is spent and they Crye vnto the ETERNALL in their Distresse and hee bringeth them out of their streit troubles Hee calmeth the Storm and their vvaues are still and they reioyce vvhen they are quiet and hee bringeth them to the Heauen vvher they vvould bee Let THEM confesse the wonderfull KINDENES of the ETERNALL to the children of men And let them exalte him in the Congregation of the commun People and praise him in the Seates of the ELDERS That transposeth riuers to a VVildernes and fountaines of vvater to a thirsty-place a fruitfull Land to barennes for the Naughtines of them that dvvell in it that transposeth a VVildernes into vvater-pooles and a dry land into Fountaines of vvater and ther hee setleth the hungry and they build Cittyes of Habitation sovv fieldes plant Vineyardes that may yeeld fruitfull reuenues and blesseth them that they increase exceedingly their beasts hee make-eth not a few vvhen they vvear fevv and oppressed vvith constreint and misery and sorrovv Povvring contempt vpon Princeces and made them vvander in the rude Desert vvith out a vvay and hee releeued the Needy out of Affliction and made them familyes like flocks of sheep Vprighte-men reioyceed to see it and wrong dealing stopped her mouth bee that is Wise both will observe these thinges and they will vnderstand thes KINDENESES of the ETERNALL CVIII A Psalm Song of DAVID MY hart is ready ô GOD I will sing Psalmes yea my GLORY vp Lute and Harp I will awake betime I will celebrate thee among the Nations and chaunt thee out among the People because the greatnes of thy KINDENES is aboue the Heauens and thy FAYTHFVLLNES is euen to the cloudes Bee thou exalted O GOD aboue the Heavens and thy GLORY ouer all
I decline not from thy TESTIMONY When I saw Transgressors which kept not thy Saying I was exceedingly greeved ô mark how I love thy PRECEPTS and according to thy LOVEING KINDENES revive mee The beginning of thy WORD is TRVTH and every one of thy IVST DECREES is for ever SH When Prince-es persecuted mee for nothing and my hart was afrayed because of thy WORD I ioyed concerning thy SAYING as a man that had found a great Booty I hate and abhore falshood and I love thy LAW Seven times a day I praise thee for thy RIGHTEOVS IVDGEMENTS ther is great PEACE to them that love thy LAW And ther is nothing shall offend them I hope for thy SALVATION because J doe thy COMMANDEMENTS My Soul keepeth thy TESTIMONYES and I love them exceedingly I keep thy COMMISSIONS and thy TESTIMONYS because all my wayes are before thee T. O ETERNALL let my SOVND com before thee and according to thy WORD giue mee VNDERSTANDING let my Request com before thee and according to thy Saying deliver mee And that my lips may vtter Prayse ô teach mee thy PRESCRIPTIONS and my tonge report thy SAYING for all thy COMMANDEMENTS are IVST Let thy hand be to help mee for J make choise of thy PRECEPTS J long for thy SALVATION O ETERNALL thy LAW being my cheeff Respect That my Soul may PRAYSE thee as long as it liueth because thy IVDGEMENTS have holpen mee J goe astray like a lost sheep ô seek out thy Servant for J forget not thy COMMANDEMENTS CXX A Song of Gradations IN my Affliction I CALLED vnto the ETERNALL to hear mee ô ETERNALL deliver my Soul from false Lippes and a deceiptfull Tong. What shall it giue vnto thee and what shall it bring vnto thee a deceiptfull Tong sharp Arrovves of a strong man vvith hot Juniper coles VVoe is mee that I have sojourned in Meshek and dvvelt vvith the Tentes of Kedar my Soul hath dvvelt her ther to long vvith him that hate-eth PEACE For vvhen J speake of PEACE they are for vvarr CXXI A Song of Gradations SHALL I lift vp mine eyes to the Hilles from whence shall my HELP com My Help is from the ETERNALL maker of Heaven and Earth O let him not suffer thy foot to slip nor let him slomber that keepeth thee Behold hee vvill neither slombe◠nor sleep that keepeth Jsrael The ETERNALL that keepeth thee vvill be a Shadovv at thy Right hand that the Sunn smite thee not by day nor the moon by night The ETERNALL vvill Keep thee and preserue thy life from all evill the ETERNALL vvill preserue thy going out and thy comming in from this time and for euer CXXII A Song of Gradations of DAVID I Reioyce-ed when they SAYD to mee Let vs goe to the House of the ETERNALL and our feet shall stand in thy gates ô Jerusalem Jerusalem that is built like a Citty vvell pack together vvith it self Because thither goe vp the Tribes the Tribes of the ETERN and the whole Testimony of Israel to worship the NAME of the Eternall for ther they sit in Trones for Iudgement the THRONES of the House of David wish PEACE with Ierusalem that they may prosper that love thee Let PEACE be in thy Trenches and Prosperity in thy Palaces for my Bretheren and friends sakes I vvish PEACE in thee for the House of the ETERNALL our GOD his sake J vvish thee vvell CXXIII A Song of Gradations VNTO thee I lift vp mine eyes ô thou Dweller in the Heavens Behold as the eyes of men Servantes are to the hand of their maisters as the eyes of a maide to the hand of her Mistresse so are our eyes to the ETER our GOD vntill hee shall Pitty vs. Pitty vs pitty vs O ETERN for wee are very full of Contempt our Soul is to full to it self of the skornfull Contempt of Idle and haughty men CXXIV A Song of Gradations of DAVID NOT for the ETERNALL that was with vs may Israel now SAY not for the ETERNALL that was with vs when men rose vp against vs even then they had swellowed vs vp alive when their Anger burned against vs. Then the waters had overflowed vs and the Current runn over our Soules then had a stream of swelling waters gon clean over our Soules Blessed be the ETERNALL that hath not given vs a prey to their teeth Our Soul is escape-ed like a bird from the fowlers Snare The Snare is broken and wee are escape-ed Our HELP is in the NAME of the ETERNALL the make-er of Heaven and Earth CXXV A Song of Gradations THEY that trust in the ETERNALL are like Mount Sion that shall not be moved but abide for ever The Hills are round about Jerusalem and the ETERNALL is round about his People from this time and for euer For ther shall noe vvicked shaft rest by the Lot of the RIGHTEOVS Because the Righteous set not their hands to any wrong Be good O ETERN to the good and vpright in their hartes and they that turn their crooked wayes let the ETERN make them walke with them that work the sorrow that Peace may bee vpon Israel CXXVI A Song of Gradations WHEN the ETERN brought again the captivity of Sion wee wear like men in a Dream Then wear our mouthes full of LAVGHTER and our tongs with SONETS Then SAYD they among the Hethen The ETERN hath don much among these men The ETERNALL hath don great things with vs and wee reioyce-ed ô ETERNALL bring our captivity again like the Rivers in the South That they that sowe with teares may reap with Songs that hee that went out weeping bearing his seedleep may com againe with SONETS bringing his sheaves CXXVII A Song of Gradations of Salomon IF the ETERNALL build not the house in vaine doe the builders therof labour in it If the ETERNALL keep not the Citty in vain doe the Warders wach It is in vain to you that yee rise vp early and sit down late and eat your meat with cares seeing hee giveth his BELOVED rest Behold children and the fruit of the womb are an hereditary reward of the ETERNALL As arrovves in a strongmans hand so are the Children of youth Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be abashed vvhen they talk vvith their enimyes in the gate
of Great and mervilouse things for his Everlasting Kindenes That by his VNDERSTANDING made the Heavens for his Everlasting Kindenes That streched out the Earth vpon the waters for his Everlasting Kindenes That made the great LIGHTES for his Everlasting Kindenes The Sunn to rule the day for his Everlasting Kindenes The Moon and the Stars to rule in the Night for his Everlasting Kindenes Him that smote Egypt in their first-born for his Everlasting Kindenes And brought Israel out of the mids of them for his Everlasting Kindenes With a stout hand and a streched out arme for his Everlasting Kindenes Him that cutteth the Suph-Sea in partes for his Everlasting Kindenes And brought Israel over in the mids therof for his Everlasting Kindenes And overwhelmed Pharoh and his host in the Suph-Sea for his Everlasting Kindenes Him that led his People in the Wildernes for his Everlasting Kindenes Him that smote great KINGS for his Everlasting Kindenes And slew famous KINGS for his Everlasting Kindenes Sihon King of the Aemorites for his Everlasting Kindenes And Og King of Bashan for his Everlasting Kindenes And gave their Land an INHERITANCE for his Everlasting Kindenes An Inheritance to Israel his Servant for his Everlasting Kndenes Which in our Low estate remembred vs for his Everlasting Kindenes And free-ed vs from our Tormentours for his Everlasting Kindenes Him that giveth bread to all flesh for his Everlasting Kindenes Worship the MIGHTY GOD of Heaven for his Everlasting Kindenes CXXXVII BY the Rivers side of Babel wher wee sate and wept when wee remembred Zion and vpon the Willowes in the middes of it wee had hanged vp our Harpes when as ther our Captivers and Inthrallers Asked vs som mery Songes Sing vs som songes of Zion Hovv shall vvee sing a SONG of the ETER vpon a forain soile If J forget thee Ierusalem let my Right hand forget and my Tong cleeue to the roof of my mouth If J remember thee not and aduaunce not Ierusalem Aboue my cheeffest mirth Remember ô ETERN the children of Edom in the day of Ierusalem vvhich SAYD Downe with it downe with it to the ground with it ô Babel tovvne of destruction happy is hee that repayeth thee fully as thou hast dealt vvith vs. Happy is hee that taketh thy babes and dasheth them against the stones CXXXVIII Of DAVID I Will worship thee with all my hart and set thee out with Psalmes before the GODES I will bow downe at thy Holly Temple and worship thy NAME for thy LOVEING KINDENES and thy TRVTH Because thou hast made thy SAYING great aboue all thy NAME Because thou hardest mee in the day I called and inlargedst mee vvith Strength in my Minde Let all the Kings of the Earth worship thee O ETERNALL when they heare the Sayings of thy mouth and sing of the VVayes of the ETERN for the Glory of the ETERNALL is great Because the ETERN is highe beholdeth the Lovvly and being lofty kenneth a farr If J vvalk in the hart of Distresse that thou revivest mee and settest thy hand vpon the face of mine Enimyes vvith thy Right hand savest mee The ETERNALL that did all for mee ô ETERNALL that thy KINDENES is for ever forsake not thou the Workes of thy handes CXXXIX For the Cheeff of David A Psalme O ETERNALL thou serchest mee and knowest Thou knowest my sitting downe and my riseing vp and vnderstandest my meaning a farr Thou goest round about my pathes and my couching and art vsed to all my wayes for behold ther is not a word in my tong but thou ô ETERN knowest it all thou besiegest mee behinde and before and layest thy hand vpon mee To wonderfull is the knowledge for mee and so highe that I comprehend it not Whether shall J goe from thy Spirit and whether shall J fly from thy Presence If J goe vp to Heaven thou art there if J goe down to Hell behold thou art there If I take the winges of the morning dwell beyond the Sea also thither shall thy hand lead mee and thy right hand seize vpon mee And if J SAY but Darknes shall comprehend mee the Night shall bee Light about mee yea the Darknes shall not darken from thee the Night shall giue light like the day as well the Darknes as the Light Thou obteinedst my Reynes coveredst mee in the belly of my mother I thank thee for because J am fearfully overheeled and wonderfull are thy WORKES which my Soul knoweth right well My FASTNING is not hid from thee which am wrought in Secret and stiched vnder the earth Thine Eyes see my WINDEING vp and they wear written vpon thy book the dayes they wear formed when ther was not one among them And to mee hovv deer are thy thoughtes ô ALMIGHTY hovv mighty are the Summes of them If J tell them they are more then the sand of the Sea All while I am awake I am with thee VVilt thou kill the VVicked that is idlely caried avvay thy Enimyes that stirr and vex thee vvith vvicked ImaginatioÌ„s Yea yee bloody men depart yee from mee Doe not J hate thos that hate thee ô ETERNALL and vex my self vvith those that raise themselues vp against thee I hate them vvith perfect hatred and they are to mee for Enimyes Serch mee ô ALMIGHTY and try mee know the Thoughtes of my Hart and see if ther be any way of Impiety in mee lead mee the way of Eternity CXL By the Cheeff A Psalme of DAVID RELEASE mee ô ETERN and preserve mee froÌ„ all Malicious iniurious men which devise Mischeeff in their hart meditate warrs continually Whose tonges are as sharp as a Sâ—rpents with the poison of an Asp within his lippes O ETERN keep mee from the handes of the Wicked man and preserve mee from all Iniurious ones VVhich devise to destroy my steps surely The Haughty ones hide a trap snares for mee they spred a net by the vvay and set Toyles for mee surely I SAY to the ETER ô my ALLMIGTY GOD O ETER heare the voice of my Supplications O LORD the Strenghth of my Salvation that coverest my head in the day of Battail Graunt not the DESIRES of the Wicked and content not his minde that they be exalted surely O thou my Helmet let the PAYNS of their ovvn lipps ouerheel them let it cast them in the fire
Cause coheering therunto and belonging to the same PSALM XI HVmility and innocence makes men bold and this maketh the poor to leave themselves upon the providence of God in al distress in the last Psalme Yf men be but a litle tryed how happy are they yf they trust in God and rely on him Ps. 2. and what a defense is hee to all that relye on him as Ps. 18. And this maketh David a moste resolute man that how soever they seek to terrify him with the wicked against him and preparation and readynes of expedition and secrecy against upright mē to destroy and overthrow all good indevours of thē and will haue him to fly and secure him by the hills as birds doe and like unto Lot in distress yet beeing sure that the judge of all the world will doe right his whole rely is on God who in his holy temple and the Sacred Scriptures well seeth the dealing and hath experience of all men And becaus hee approoveth the just and detesteth the injurious the wicked shall taste the cup of his wrath and the just God that loveth uprightnes wil regard him Hee thus relyeth upon his approbation by the word of God and the condemnation of his pursuers by the Terms of just and wicked men and will not hearken to other refuge as Ps. 75. after the Story of wicked Sodom and just Lot Gen. 19. Construction Iadah is to cast or shoot and Aleph is instruction the wicked shooteth at all uprightnes and oppugneth learning to destroye it and God casteth snares and fire and brimstone at him the wicked envyeth the just but God regardeth him by Gods eyes and affection and action is meant kindes of casting The Genesis is the equall division of the 22 letters into radicalls and servils the radicalls are in these Ch t S ph r G z ng T s d q which are the ground-work and m sh h u C l b A I th n in which are the ferviles These are allotted for slavery captivity and stormes of disturbance for desturbing like the wicked and injurious when God hath the just allwayes in his eyes which are the fundamentall Radicals PSALM XII THe true way of Godlynes is Grace and truthe kindenes and faythfullnes fayth and love as Ps. 25. which is the life of a just man the Soul of the law and foundation of the church which flesh and blood can not reveal or make visible to the eyes of man Now in time of Lot when in a citty was not a just family no not ten just persons could be found to redeem it for the abundance of iniquity and Dominion of Sinn that reigned among them hee asscribe-eth it wholely to base people in authority that are full of flattery bragging pride and dissembling of willful riot and churlishnes that will abide no instruction that haue no gentlenes or faythfullnes or honesty in them and this hee maketh also a sorrowfull and a greevous time and a moste improsperous season for good men that hee cryeth God help as yf they wer all gon and eaten out by devourers Ps. 14. Now becaus God hath promissed to saue the church from all kinde of conspiracy spoile and persecution and to hear their cry and that his word is throughly tryed and found never to faile but is above all his service Ps 138. and whatsoever he sayeth that commeth to pass and is made good and confirmed hee prayeth God to preserve the faythfull and the meek from the children of this world And for the purenes and approvednes of this word as Ps. 119. is that hee would cutt of all flattering and dissembling-hollow-harted worldlings and wicked men that thus rise and conspire against the meek Construction The letters are to weep or houl and accordingly the time is lamented and the poor cry when nothing but cruelty and pride and falshood raigneth The Genesis is Moshe ve Caleb seven of the servile letters when no such as Moses for meeknes nor Caleb for fidelity can be found But cruelty and pride and falshood is the property of slaues especially in authority beeing weighed numbred and divided PSALM XIII COuld yee not watch with mee one hower Mē destitute of the Law and understanding therof haue cold and heavy hartes and are so much troubled in adversity with fainting and drowzines that they will not only forsake their freendes but evē thēselues also yf it wer possible without pursueing in a litle extremity David by looseing the way of God often looseth his courage looseth the feeld and flyeth and is overcom and ashamed and hee is in great sorrow and distress God is angry with him the Scriptures turn away their face they will not abide him becaus hee hath neglected them and cast his wordes behinde him as Ps. 50. they think not on him they care not for him they neither esteem him nor succour him The waters therof bear him not but hee sinketh when hee walketh upon them Now becaus this is a persecution of ignorance and a distreess of negligence hee prayeth for Gods loveing countenance again toward him his comfort and succour and repairer of him as Ps. 51. that as the eye is the light of the body and the purenes of the Commandement of God giveth light to the eye Ps. 19. so that God would instruct him in the pureity simplicity and singular cleernes of the Law to saue him Lest hee should fall a sleep in sensuality and dye in trouble and perish immortally by tentatiō While his afflictors vaunt greatly and rejoyce of their prevailing and his fall by them that his hart may confidently rejoyce in the wonted way of his salvation and hee may sing of Gods grace and loveing kindenes that hath don so much for him And so as light delivereth out of Darknes Ps. 97.36 So out of his intolerable greeff and sorrow hee calleth for the compassion of his God the eternall trusting wholely upon his grace and loveing kindenes to revive him Construction Jag the letters 13. are to greeve hee complaineth of his greeff in all kindes and desireth to be eased that his enimyes may not rejoyce and hee may sing for the goodnes of God unto him The Genesis is Ethan A I Th and N the declineing of the future tens in the beginning of the word as in the first letters of the fower first wordes and the fower admirations together shew Ethan signifieth strong and hard Ier. 5. such as was the hand of his enimyes upon him PSALM XIV THe harts of men are full of evill and a generall madnes sweyes them while they live By their workes you shall know them Lay them to the Law Ps. 15. and wher is one good or kinde or faythfull man Ps. 12 Bring them to the word Ioh. 1. and doe they not all stink and favour of corruption for ill dealing shew them the Scriptures and consider the body of them and goe they not clean contrary and turn quite an other way doe they not al rebell abominably in
to keep him from falling as Ps. 15 and beeing sure by these graces hee shall not dye till hee bee perfect in the way of life and see the full Ioy and pleasures of the word and sweet exposition therof by the Ministry the Kingdom of Heaven a celestiall government and Ioy of the holy Ghost ps 49.27 hee is made exceeding merry therwith and accounting all other invocation or relye intolerable hee will have all his welth and good and delight and pleasure whatsoever to be nothing in respect of God and this his Name and way of Salvation Ps. 4. And becaus his whole relyeing is upon God and hee is a Saviour of all them that relye on him Ps. 17. and this is all his way of Salvation and becaus hee will haue no other God nor worship nor esteem any thing in the world but him he prayeth to bee preserved by him And this from preserving the tree of Life Gen. 3. And so purgeing himself of all idolatry vain triumphing pride glory and reioyceing in worldly things and relying whole-ly vpon God and makeing divinity his portion and is counselled by his word and preferreth his Law Ps. 127. hee is greatly cheered and is throughly confident of all preservation and of a long and pleasant life that is ever before God propounded by his Ministry called his right hand in his church as Psalm 73.110 Construction The two letters pointeing at Jehovah shew absteining from all strange Gods and also his Ioy in the Ministry hee taketh Iad a hand in all his senses for might welth Sorrow place lot or quarter of inheritance to counsel teach and maintein and the right hand for promotion Vau is taken privative with negative signes that though the signification be craveing as is the term hook or crook yet by construction it is sayd as wel to leave and let goe as to hold as both are the propertyes of a hand also Genesis The kindes of quiescents are many as welth and pleasure and delight and Ioyes and counsell and instruction from God They are for his harts ease like a Mariage day Gods word gives him all content by the Ministry his right hand in which words the Name of the Eternall so sweetly resteth and that without deficiencey For hee refuseth all the contrary with note of deficients as Iod in Iissarowni and Nun thrise with bal. And thus by avoyding of Defection hee mainteineth the Quiescents PSALM XVII LAy up for your selues treasure in heaven wher neither moth nor canket corrupteth nor theeves break through and steal David observeth from Samuel that moth-eaten and rusty imagination of Saul how hee robs God of his honour by his disobedience and the worm of his corrupt conceit that all together neglect his commandement and break it to have his own will and pleasure fullfilled for som respect that hee graved to himself and worshipped by his estimation of the goodly things of the world Princees and fatlings Which becaus it is rebellious transgression and a willfull offense against the Law of God not to obey the word of his mouth but to bee bewitched with his pleasure and to make an Idol of his will and marking this well hee excuseeth himself of counterfeiting in his prayer or dissembling in his request unto God but that all is according to justice and equity and that hee will bee tryed by God that seeth all Therfor hee requesteth ernestly that his steps may be kept still in the Law of righteousnes Ps. 16. that his feet slip not into the wayes of them that fall and that hee follow not a king or please a multitude in doing of evill and for this hee justly prayeth unto him that is saviour of all by his ministry that rely on him Ps. 18. and hee haveing repose-ed all his treasure in God his undefiled way of righteousnes Ps. 16. that hee will hide his grace-es and favours from them that rise against him and that hee will keep him as watchfully as the eyelid saveth the sleepy eye Ps. 77. and protect him and save him by his truthe called the shadow of his wings Ps. 91. from all his wicked enimyes that spoyl him Ps. 12. and his ill wishers that on every side lay siege for his life that haue greasy thoughtes and proud words and watch as greedily and as privily to overthrow him as a lion for prey Now his life beeing in hazard thus among his opposits that haue their bellye 's full of the treasure and blessings of this life and spare for their children after them that have their portion and delight therin that are their own carvers in this world and worship the work of their own handes and their wicked inventions becaus they be enimyes of God that with his sword and his power hee would stand before him make them stoop beat him down and deliuer him seeing when hee awakes and beholdes in righteousnes but the image of Gods Law called his countenance and hath a perfect understanding therof hee hath enough and is satisfyed and hath all hee looketh for with full contentment Construction It beginnes with the letter Zain to hear and therfor hath all the words of that sense comming together in divers places The other letter Iod or Iad a hand reacheth all over the Psalme in the attributes wayes and exploites of the wicked and also salvation by Gods right hand and by his sword and his hand from all such bothe the letters make Iez to sprinkle for the proud aspersion of the wicked Genesis For defectives hee sheweth his own syncerity that his mouth and his hart agreeth and hee abandoneth the way of ravenous incrocheing and defective men which he maketh the moste prosperous in this life which doth most spoyle The token of deficients bal thrise repeated mortall men twise They are counted dead men and deficient that haue their part only in this life The wordes of deficiency that in minde cast about to destroy c. His quiesciencey is in the image of God PSALM XVIII THe full assureance of understanding and the riches therof is to know the Mystery of God the father and of Christ in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge Thou art my beloved sonn in thee I am well pleased in the last Psalme 17. hee prayeth hartily for the heavenly light and revelatiō heerof and in this Psalme hee seeth the effect of his prayer The heavens open the spirit of meeknes descendeth after affliction and hee becommeth wise Psal. 119. th after a sea of troubles whē hee is baptized and haue passed through fire and water and cō to refreshing Ps. 66. and seeing hee is saveed for putting all manner of rely and confidence in God and God heard him and is angry with his enimyes and commeth with a mighty rage and terror secrecy and swiftnes against them and bringeth him out of affliction and releaseth him to shew his love unto him and that hee should not call upon God in vain that keepeth his wayes but
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.
LEt your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven Hee that honoureth father and mother more then mee is not worthy of mee and the honour of Parents is the fulfilling of the Law and Commandements of God Which is heer don by praying for the king the preserver and defender therof And this maketh the womb happy for bearing and the paps for giving suck Hee that in his distress calleth upon God doth glorify God and hee it is that shall be set in the way of Salvation Ps. 50.91 and see his fill of dayes with all contentment Ps. 21. And therfor becaus the King is father and mother in this sens for fostering and mainteyning as well as God and his Law for creating it may well be sayd fear God and honour the King for fear God and keep his Commandement and honour thy father and mother and hurt not thy neighbour for an only religious and a devout man Now with great devotion hee cryeth God save the king and prayeth for him That God would honour him with all salvation and giue him all his requests hee glorifyeth God by calling upon him in distress and that the Kings religious service of God may comfort and succour him in all distresses that the whole church may sing and display their coulours for his salvation With this conjecture and note of assureance therof that the calling upon God standeth in more steed and is more victorious to prolong his life and mainteine his inheritance then Chariots and horses as is seen For the service of God is the honouring of father and mother and the calling vpon him the onely help to prolong their dayes And for this they bless the King and pray for him for the mainteining of a right ministry Construction The name of the letter being Caph a hand hee worketh upon all the propertyes from holding apprehending or conceiving The word Iagnan is made to hear and this goeth through the Psalme thrise used Fortification help and upholding giveing offering and erecting filling all work of the hand and the right hand for the Ministry caph also is to crouch Genesis The Quiescency the staff and stay and salvation of the King is in the calling upon God and remembring of his Name as Psalm 18. therfor is Name so oft repeated also Wherby they hold abide and stand upright and haue their fill of harts ease and rest consultation and request fullfilled with all contentment The word salvation 4. times repeated Which is a royall quiescencey when the contrary trust and all vain confidence shall allwayes crouch and haue defeat So as the King standes by the Ministry his salvation and safe standing is in the perfection therof The crouching which is another sens of Caph and falling is the signe of Deficiencey the Vowells by the Grammarians Elias and others are called Kings which may be sayd to call upon the letters Iehova for to them the quiescents haue relation respect also and are for a recreation or restauration of mankinde PSALM XXI THe strongest hold lasteth longest so the Kings dayes and inheritance is made everlasting for sticking to the strength of the Ark of God Ps. 68.59 and the life and righteousnes of the law that is in it From whence hee hath his Dominion and crown of Glory and honour and worship and all blessings that his hart or lips can desire as Ps. 8.3 and is cheeâ—ed and whet on with the joy of his countenance Ps. 4.41 That for his fayth and love to God Gods loveing kindedenes shall lengthen his dayes a thousand generations against all reproche ps 4. Highth and depth is not discerned a farr no more is the hart of a king by his people that they should be angry with him And becaus fooles bolts are soon shott and easyly slay with reproche Ps. 14.15 and put out his light and extinguish his glory by Ignominy Ps. 4. The Church willeth the King to bee glad and rejoyce in God and to bee thankfull to the power of his Law and Love for his Salvation They pray that Gods power and his Ministry called his right hand may ever finde out all his Enimyes and them that hate him by his Iealousy and burn them with his firey presence like a furnace Ps. 58.83 and anger them with the opening of the word and consume and devoure them by laying the Scriptures before them and makeing them as a butt to shoot at And that God would bend the Scriptures at them and aime at their face-es to destroy them to the third and fowerth Generation for angring of him and his Anoynted for endevouring and attempting evill against him and diviseing mischeeff that they could never atchive an Imagination impossible to Kill him That Gods strength may bee extolled and his excellent power and virtue bee sung out in Psalmes and commended Thus hee thanketh God for his mighty and unspeakable blessings upon the King with a presumption that hee shall never bee stirred becaus hee trusteth in the Eternall who of his loveing kindenes defendeth them that trust in him Ps. 18. and findeth out all his enimyes and destroyeth them that the church may haue matter to sing Praises and commendations of him when the King is safe and they are poseed or oppose-ed by the word of God and as it wear slayn by Objection Construction The letters are interpreted Caah or cavah to be obscure and dark and troubled First in the contrary sense as of his countenance that it be lightsom and to be in sight thou hast set before him c. makest him cheerfull before thee c. at the time of thy presence c. a but c. bend against theiâ— faces c. Cavah to burn To make them black with wrath as a firey oven put them out of the sight of men and of the world by destruction and obscure them Such is the repetition of the sense and words also to make it cleer Genesis His Glory and honour and worship and prosperity and length of dayes beeing all that hee can desire is The Kings quiescency Ioy and delight is in the Confidence and preservation of the Eternall without defect let the King rejoyce in thy strength c. And seeing hee trusteth in the Eternall c. Bee thou exalted in thy Strength O Eternall c and for Constancey put them as a crown c. thou puttest upon him c. Set them as a firey Oven c Set them as a butt which is to plant fast and so oft repeated that whether for the quiescent or Defective it be firm The constancey of the Letters of Jehova or Ehevi the letters of the quiescents is great delight and ornament to vowels that call on them PSALM XXII IN the last Ps. 21. the King by trusting confidently in the eternall and the supremacey of godlines and excellencey of the promiss Ps. 138. And soveraignty and way of love is sure of salvation And this is his
of Lamed for rarity by repeating the words Chaunt unto the Eternall That Glory may chaunt thee out c. For the lerned priestes Gods holy ones and gracious ministers Is. 42. the grace of Doctrine beeing a lively and a lightsom thing as ignorance is wrathfull and horrible Genesis Dagesh tephereth Dagesh of glory in beged cepet and Raphe As in thes wordes that Glory may chaunt thee c. And in thes words thou didst heale Tirpaeni Which Dagesh is used for sweetnes of sound in the oration and this Dagesh is only in six letters dagesht and six undagesht according to the six tribes on either shoulder of the Ephod wherin the priest was to Minister PSALM XXXI HAveing seen the goodnes of the Eternal wich hee trusted verily to see as Ps. 27. To wit his wonderfull kindenes that hee was at liberty among his Enimyes and that in a strange and strict citty Gath and sheweth the benefit therof and teacheth it as in Psalm 34. A B C. by his valiant waiting who giveth thanks for his deliverance for fearing the Eternall and that hee was not cutt off from the sight of God but had his request to inioye his service Now in great perplexity by his fals accusers and beeing mightily broken through iniquity for their privy plotting for his life by all manner of false reportes and violence hee prayeth for his own deliverance by this Argument first by the righteousnes of the Eternall and for his Name righteousnes sake which should lead and guide him aright to salvation Secondly to the Eternall his strength his fort and Garison becaus hee commended and committed his life into his handes with his whole trust and rely upon him And thirdly that the Eternall was a God of truth and that hee could not abide vain falshood but did put his trust only in the Eternall And against his Enimyes thus that all arrogant fals lofty proud and spitefull speakers against the Iust may haue an everlasting silence below and be dumb in the ground And seeing thes are the just rewards of the Eternall hee comforteth them that wait on him in hope that hee shall never be ashamed therof shewing in this Psalm what is his whole rely and confidence what is his Rock and Garison and fayth and beleeff and the first Article of his Creed even to beleeve in the truthe the Word Ps. 120 45. the God and power therof And to trust therin for Salvation and to committ him self wholy therto to bee redeemed by the knowledge of the Law and confidently trusting to work out his salvation by the obseruing therof And this is that which maketh him fayth full and patient and long suffering and constant and not faint in distersses and miseryes but to be of good cheer and of good comfort becaus God will strengthen their hartes with his Goodnes Exod 33. Construction· Lamed and Aleph lerning instruction for the strength of the Law Ps. 29. which is heer defineed and determined to bee Iustice Love and truth which is the firmnes of their faith and boldnes hope and patience and comfort of the beleevers and therfore called the church and the foundatioÌ„ and the Rock and stroÌ„g-hold for the sure preservation redemption and safe cariage of life unto salvation of them Math. 16. This is the spirituall rock that refreshed the whole campe which rock was Christ 1 Cor. 10. c. The brest plate of righteousnes that imboldned him Ephes. 1. as is seen by the doubling of thes wordes relying trusting and committing of him self in all kinde of distresses This is formed from Exod. 33. wher it is called Gods presence favour goodnes and glory and rock and safety by using the same termes as after a perfet modell also for Lo of Laah to be dissolved and deficient as hee was Genesis The term hiemanti in grammer to beleeve And heerby the Eternall preserveth the faythfull that are well fed with the word and wear this confidence and soundly payeth the wicked proud and contemptuous persons with destruction The word hasah to rely alludeth to hosen the fortitude the stones of reputation and hasin the strength of the Eternall Ps. 89. The number to the 12. dagghesfoâ—tes or hazakim sh q t s t s n v z l i m h. For comfort of the hart and confirming the minde That the minde be established in all good Doctrine in thes wordes hizkois lebhabhchen make strong your minde bee yee of good cheer and couragious PSALM XXXII HAveing felt the hevy hand of God upon him and the parching of his wrath by his trobles foâ— all his trespass sinn deceipt and iniquity which letted his Prayer and the happines of his forgivenes Ps. 65. After his confession and prayer to him hee counselleth the Godly to pray in time and conveniently left in time of inundation of trobles called waters Ps. 120. they finde impediment and harder entertainment And for this caus hee prayeth to his Defence the Eternall for preservation from Distress and to bee regarded by the Eternall his righteousnes for direction and righteousnes Who answereth yf they bee not Asses and will understand his Eye shall tend him and teach him his way And wher sorrows belong to the wicked his loveing kindenes shall inviron him about If you haue ten thousand Instructors yet you haue but one father and who can forgiue sinns but God only even the Allsufficient father of instruction The Law that bindeth and looseth saveth and condemneth The ever wakeing Eye of the Law shall tend them and advise them and teach them instruct them So they bee not like Asses and dull headed and except they will not lend their eares to understanding that for acknowledgeing their sinns they may be forgiven remitted and saved And thus by fayth are the righteous saved and blessed from the Mercy seat Exod. 25 26 27. In judgement remember Mercy wher Iudgement is expressed by the hevynes of Gods hand as love covereth a multitude of sinns S. Pauls rule So at the Mercy seat Attonement and reconciliation was to be made for all As Lev. 16. after confession The Mystery whose sinns are covered and condemnations wipeed out from kipporeth which is to cover or a Covering by all allusion As the mercy seat is over the Ark and Mercy rejoyceth over Iudgement and loveing kindenes shall be round about a faythfull man and they that cry for Mercy heer shall be rescued and let escape damnation as the goat c. Lev. 16. From hence was Moses admonished Num. 7. Construction Lamed lerned Lerning is still a guard to a wise man to keep him from sinn And what a great felcity is it to be found faultless or cleered by the word of God to beware of trespass and to see the way to Grace I will wise c. Beth is a house by his hideing and preserving or protection for favour and kindenes the walles of Salvation the good Edification that is dayly about the Iust. So the tractable are edifyed and the
reconcilement between the word and the faythfull beleevers for the mutuall love of wedlock and chastity and continencey in religion by an Emblem of an eternall comfort and a pleasant love song or Epithalamion most sweetly That as Mariage make-eth glad and mery hartes that they bestow their hartes and delightes and whole love one upon another so that the Church should have none other God but one And to this purpose hee handleth both partes of the Ephithalamion which sheweth to bee more glorious and more virtuous then the earth can bear yet occasioned by Salomons Match with Pharohs daughter And beginning with the Groom hee makeeth him the fayrest and best spokeen of all men becaus by his gracious cariage hee got worship and honour from all men and is blessed of God for ever And this is his Cincture and strength and virtue Ps. 111.145 that makeeth him like a Giant or a worthy Ps. 19.89 Hee makeeth him also a Knight that is mounted upon victorious Truthe and caried with meek Iustice with true humility to ride prosperously That insisting and insideing heerupon his Ministry and right hand may teach him terrible things and from hence to steek his Enimyes to the hart And with sharp and keen words subdue the people under him Lastly hee makeeth him a King that hath none but God for his Throne and rest and confidence for soundnes of Iudgement and defense of religion as Psalm 89. And his Rod of Iustice gets him a crown of rejoyceing and anoyntment above his fellowes from his very God that hee serveth The pretious matter hee had to write of His clothes are all perfumed with lovely cariage and sweet behaviour to make him delectable and amiable before the Queen and her women all in Gold and perles the lovelynes of the church for pureity of religion and cleernes of doctrine to delight him And now haveing runn through all the kindes of fansyes and bravery of the word of God of Christ the Law and the Bridegroom that can move love or affection to allure the Church to his society and familiarity and to woo them hee passeth to the other part of the Epithalamion of the Bride the Church how shee might possible stirr the love of Christ unto her And this is all by her inward service of him her allegiance and obedience to him to forsake father and mother and all the world for him to subject herself only unto him And bow unto him and follow him whither-so-ever hee goeth And this is the bewty of the Bride that winneth her Husband and this is the cariage that shall get her honour and presents and exaltation from the richest even her Humility Besides the Bride hath no outward glory nor pompe neither is the churches bravery in visibility or worldly Eminencey but is both secret and sacred and moste spirituall and inward to make it the more worthy the more pretious the more optative expetible and desireable so that as shee is inwardly moste glorious and rich so the bravery of the Church and riches of religion is only in the depth of the spirit and divine wisdom and secrecy of understanding moste maydenly chaste and holy Which being of a pure conversation shall bee reveled and brought unto Christ with a train of pure virgines and undefiled Saintes the Catholick Church which is holy by the mysteryes of godlynes And the better to affect him they shall com flowing to his court with all alacrity and cheerfulnes to pleas him The end of all is that in steed of Abraham Isaak and Iacob his fathers the principall men of religion by this affinity and union ther may bee propagated a stemm of princes out of their children they beeing becom one flesh to rule all nations to make his Name a famous memoriall in every generation for the people to worship for ever For his defense and deliverance And this is a great secret concerning Christ and the Church for the convoy of the Church to the service of God shewing their God and King and Defendour and Conductor As the Poet hath Hector and Andromache for the Generall and his host Construction Mem waters peoples and Nations and kingdoms c. Throne for kingdom Name for kingdom as in the Lords prayer By the repeating of the eternity of both This Throne is for ever c. And thy Name and fame I will make remembred by the people for ever and ever c. as Ps. 145. For the property of water thes wordes doubled the Queen and her women shall bee brought flowing and com unto the King c. and unto his closset c. He for the bravery of his presence the choisest presence Mem and He for Meh what for the definition being a good matter and his work of the King his mariage beeing the best for the Ioy therof And Mahah to linger mentioneth the expedition as swift c. flowing c. Exodus The Passover of the Queen to the King and their famous Issue for ever as before The Name of God and the Termn King is heer confounded as Ps. 95. 2. Kings 18.19 c. by definition the King is called a God as the poet called Augustus c. Elohim beeing taken vocative but in the greek it is doubtfull Heb. 1. as both vocative and nominative PSALM XLVI WHer God is present and people well advised ther wanteth no redy help in distress so the Church of God haveing allwayes the Ark and the doctrine therof called the river-chanels of the citty by them to instruct them fear nothing Though the rageing Hethen called the roreing sea set upon them and though the Kingdomes called the mountains shake with their proud invasion and many Kingdomes overthrowen by it and great alteration be in the world yet they assure themselves Ierusalem cannot be stirred becaus God their Ark and confidence is in it and will help them early before the Enimy be up beeing sure by the word the God of warr is with them and will releeve them That useth to make strange work in the word as Ps. 76. to cease warrs and make them hold their handes that hee himself onely may bee exalted A virgin shall conceive and bear a sonn and thou shalt call his Name Immanuel All the Churches conception is peace and the childe that is born is wonderfull for counsel and the prince of peace and hath all the government to himself as a God of valour and father of eternity And this is the God of Iacob that is all their Munition the God of hostes that is allwayes with them by their confidence in the wisdom and righteousnes of the Law And in all their distresses they call upon him as Immanuel and in all commotions for the God of Iacob the God of war and prince of peace their safegard and whole relye Beeing perswaded of present help from him becaus they see by the Scriptures what wonderfull debate hee hath quieted and the strife and contention hee hath ceassed and the peace that hee hath made
Name and goodnes that attended Moses Exod. 33. against them because they were opposite PSALM LV. BEeing in a mighty agony for the rebellion of his sonn Absolom and revolting of his privy counseller Ahitophel his usual companion as Ps. 62. of which hee could not beware because of trust nor bear it and for the seditious trechery of the Citty and lamentable and mischevous deceipt that Ierusalem was full of the mischeeffs in their dwelling houses which was intolerable when they strike hand beeing secure and perform not and speak fair wordes and cut his throat whom hee was now fallen foul on David prayeth for speedy conveiance out of it into the wildernes from the hurly burly of it and by the wings of a dove which hee makeeth his providence upon the Eternall in whom hee trusteth to whom hee greatly complaineth upon whom hee allwayes calleth for deliverance for confusion of their tongues for unjust contention That they may swallow their tongues and eat their own threatnings That they may feel death and hell in their lives likewise and torments by a pit of destruction And as they are Murtherers and Traitors and shorteners of life so that they may not reach out half their time that hee may have peace for the warr they make him And this hee prayeth the Almighty that is allwayes present with them and knoweth their mindes to answer them their dissembling beeing unanswerable by man His request in this Psalme is deliverance from guile and injury the breed of deceipt and corruption and viperousnes which is contention and strife and that by degradation in bodyes politique from the highest to the lowest In the Citty it is every wher upon the walles in the streetes and in their dwelling houses and among freendes as falshood in fellowship continually Vpon the walles they are traitors in their streetes cousseners and in their houses hypocrites and with their freendes dissemblers and fals bretheren shewing that no watch is sufficient against these as Psal. 127. and no Enimy so dangerous Therfor all day long hee teacheth to watch and pray to bee defended from them and Especially from fals companions which are moste mischeevous hard to bee avoyded Thes doth Christ call ravening wolves in sheeps clothing that the subdolity of Serpents nor innocencey of dooves can beware of though the one bee wise the other God defendes This is frameed from the subdolity of the Serpent that was a lyer and a murtherer from the beginning Gen. 3. By expressing all the propertyes and partes of knavery and wickednes and is the corruption spoken of Psal. 52.53 Construction Nun defective for the whole defect of the Citty which hee sheweth the policy shall bee overthrowen Hee telleth of his defect Complaineth unto God upon the letter and term He behold for presence loe the open and plain man Vpon the contrary hee prayeth God not to conceal himself c. hee would lodge in the wildernes c far enough off his neer companion that knew his counsell c. dissimulation and God that inhabiteth presence hee that presenteth himself unto God God will mainteyn him the just shall never fleet away c. Thes all bee kindes of presence what neerer than his great agony and fear that hee was dayly put in by them And such a lamentable state it is that hee so damneth to hell and destruction and bewaileth Nah from Nahah to lament consider the wordes complaining and crying out repeated c. Exodus Offer your presents to God cast your providence upon him c. your sacrifices of prayer and faith unto him Hos. 12. your dayly oblation evening and morning and at noon like himself Alway present him put him in minde and call on him for a kinde of presence sacrifice Object your faythfullnes your prayer offer righteousnes and hee will sustein and releev you and you shall never be cast away nor rejected Gods Name heer is the God of peace by the opposition of the Termes peace and warr repeated PSALM LVI FOxes have holes and the birdes of heaven have nests but the sonn of man hath no place to rest his head Whither shall David fly hee is every wher beewrayed and Saul is at his heeles driveing him at last into the net hunting him into his Enimyes handes Hee that so often and so sore daunted the Phelists his sore-est Enimyes as Ps. 9.10 27. must now fly for succour to them What a case was this wher they hold counsell of his fidelity and seek his life to suppress him But in distress hee is made resolute by the word of God Therfor hee is thankfull for his deliverance out of his fear when hee cryed and prayeth God to pitty him The form is from Gen. 3. I will put Enimity between thee and her and between thy seed and her seed hee shall bruse thy head and thou shall hurt his heel The strife is his serpentlike Enimyes are innumerable and shall never rest afflicting greeving and tormenting of him and perpetually strive to oppress him and dayly contend for the upper hand of him And shall allwayes watch his heeles bee still pryeing at his cours and cariage of his life to cast him and destroy him as Psal. 17. And such is the snakynes of Saul and viperousnes of the Phelists for secret mischeeffs and privy conspiracy against him beehinde his back his hunting of him lying in wait for him whithersoever hee goeth thus doth the serpent his Enimy tread upon his heeles and hurteth his life and letteth his way How can a maÌ„ goe when his Enimy treds on his heeles yet for all this hee is not afrayd because of his trust in God which hee thanketh his word for of any thing they can doo unto him But prayeth God to beat them away for their molestation And dash them and throw them down by his angry countenance and consider with what greeff and how often hee had been forced to fly and remember it At which mone and complaint and cry unto God and his faith in him and his word hee seeth his Enimyes turn back hee presumeeth then that God is with him that with his presence hee hath now broke-en the serpents head as Psal. 9.48 by turning his Enimy from his purpose that made head against him Thus to make the Enimy to turn head and the serpent to creep into his hole again is sayd to break or bruse his head or frustrate his devises as Ps. 74. The mystery is seen by and between the report and bringing again of thes wordes In God I put my trust I fear not c. His dayly contention and his trust in God The matter is his faith which hee obteineth by the light wisdom of the word presence of God That cutteth off the fingers of the wicked and makeeth them loose their hold and disappointes them and continueth moste liâ—â—ly from Psal. 52.54.55 and is able to knock his mightyest Enimyes in the head and confound
man unto eternall life is by the Promiss which is holy of things unseen gracees and mercyes of God and forgivenes and a better and an everlasting life by fayth and hope and this knoweth no man but the holy spirit of God in man And thus is faith the rock to build upon as divers times in the word wherby hee payeth every man according to his work and judgeth all men according to their minde As the minde is conteined in the body so the Promiss is the soul of the Law and as wee are forbid to care for the body so the church is commanded to provide for the soul to cast them selves upon God to seek contentment by a gratious government and let all rudiments goe And this is his sure rock of victory and of salvation even his faith Construction Heer Samâ—c is taken passively also shewing his relye repose and trust and the strength of his support which is God The weaknes of the pâ—oples confidence that trust in the vanity of misgotten riches or in the falshood of Man Ps. 146. Beth a house they thrust hard at him and set upon him to overthrow and beat down all his riseing and his exaltation and dignity of his hous and to ruine all his repose by falshood which is a kinde of dwelling of the minde Sab to compass or inviron Gods wall about him which is his kindenes grace favour Ps. 21. cannot bee beaten down it is so strong And this confidence deceiveth no man but payeth every man for his travaile Exodus Hos. 12. The people play the crafty merchants in sacrificeing their misgotten welth and set their mindes wholely therupon for their salvation wher their faith is reprooved Beeing in an opposite cours to the sacrifices of righteousnes Ps. 4. faith of David which is counted righteousnes so hee dealeth by privation Every one that worketh righteousnes is accepted with God c. Marke the repetition of termes concerning all pointes God his rock and trust PSALM LXIII ASk and you shall receive and seek and you shall finde and knock and it shall bee opened unto you In the Last Psalme 62. hee sheweth that his life is sought by flaterers and dissembling hypocrites that use smooth wordes and have throtes like open graves and wicked and corrupt thoughtes to devour him and gape wide to receive him as Ps. 5. wher hee casteth off his confidence in Man for vanity and welth that groweth by wrong hee counteth nothing worth to save him and therfor relyeth wholy upon the strength of the kindenes and mercyes of God Heer they seek his life with the sword and hunt him into holes and corners of the earth and in this for playing the foxes with him hee prayeth that foxes may prey upon them and baite upon them in the ground and that hee may bee mery and have good cheer in the hous of God as Psal. 23 and be ravished with his glory and releeved with the living waters of his mercy which hee counteth better then life that hee may bless and prais his Name for ever and all their treacherous mouthes may bee stopped That this may bee hee knocketh at the word of Grace beeing athirst in the wildernes for waters of the scripture to refresh him Which wildernes hee maketh his solitary bed as often as hee awakes and thinks on him then to call upon him That hee himself may rejoyce in God and all may boast and glory to bee sworn in him Construction Samec again for the function of Godlynes the work of relyeing dayly adoration and admiration of his strength and glory and commendation for his grace as thanks of triumph after great good cheer of his mercyes dayly conversation and comunication with him Ghimel for Ghamul a wainling as hee was from all his affections in the wildernes Sag both the letters to depart or goe back This sense shineth through the whole Psalme beeing contrary to Appetition longing and adheering which is the whole tenor therof Zeph. 1. mark the report of the phrase Davids seeking of God and his Enimyes seeking of him Exodus The first of Zephany also shall shew what sacrifice the Lord will somtime have and what sacrifice is heer ment by the fullnes of the termes and sense of this psalme in it destruction of them that turn from the Lord and them that seek him not That they that play the foxes and betray him may have a foxes part in the wildernes Eze. 13. their trecherous mouthes stopped in the earth God will have his sacrifice aswell of his own sworn children that depart from him as of them that be devoted to other Gods and have never yet served him He will serve him self out of all sortes when he ordeineth a destruction PSALM LXIV COnsidering the deadly fear of persecution which David felt as Psal. 55. the sharpnes and egernes of his Enimyes dayly plots and secret conspiracy for his life to kill a just man without fear and to compass it suddainly by means not to be descryed nor discovered by any eye by deep prying into his hart and all his wayes rekoning that none can see them hee prayeth to bee delivered from this horror And as Servantes make their quarell their maisters so David concluding that they conspire against God belyeing him because hee seeth all their dooings and giveth warning in the hart by som passion and light of every action hee prayeth that God may give them a just recompens by this meanes of their own inventioÌ„ That their own reckoning may fall upon them that their own tonges that belye him may bee true upon themselves to strike them sudainly that they never see the stroke till it light upon them and they feel it to destruction That the very standers-by man perceiue the plain judgement of God upon them and that the just may rejoyce and glory in their relying in him O full of all subtilty the childe of the Divill and Enimy of all righteousnes This is the man hee feareth this is hee that hee cryeth out upon to bee defended and his life to bee preserved from That hee fall not into his handes whom hee describeeth by his practise and combination the secret pryeing and conspiracy against him and creeping into his bosom to beguile him by plotting and consulting against him as the Hethen doe in the same termes Ps. 2. This man is above all the Enimyes in the world to bee feared Ps. 55. This man keeps him company to Church and home prayes with him and eates with him and lernes with him and holdes with him as yf hee wear of the same religion and Diet with him and all to devour him What beast or fowl is so wilde or so vigilant to look to his life that dayly conversation will not tame and beguile and in time secure him Against such a one a man hath need to bee awake and watch early and late and at noon day Ps. 55. mischeevous greevous hurtfull and moste dangerous men As great Enimyes as
dead in sorrowfull lives buryed deeply in distresses and covered with wrongfull oppression shutt up from their freindes and acquaintance by remotenes and terriblely amaseed by affliction and Gods angry terror upon them Now how can they confess him aright as Psalm 86.137 and shew his kindenes and faithfullnes among the Destroyers and make his Miracles plain among them that understand nothing or manifest his Iustice wher it shall not bee remembred For this hee prayeth aloud in the night as Psalm 134. And holdeth up his handes and calleth dayly for salvation and redemption with early shouting and praier for the same to wit their return to Ierusalem to prais him counting all placees els in the world but an absolute state of death whersoever they were captiveed Construction Pe a mouth mouth to mouth or face to face for manifest as by prayer and Oration to God Affliction is the contrary for obscureity signified by the whole nature of the grave and dead men What theyr estate is mark his presence in these words before thee praying shouting and cryeing and calling confess told manifested Gods wrath remember And a miserable estate is compareed to a grave for all propertyes So his life is full of all evills none evill escapes him Hee is at the mouth of the pitt expireth Hee is dead slain weak out of minde cutt off in the deep in the dark in place of destruction land of forgetfullnes out of his acquaintance in abhomination shut up for ever In wrath hee rejects and hides his face Hee doth no wonderfull and secret thing his mercey is not revealed Cheth fear prostration and breaches amaseed terrors terrible passions oppression c. Bothe the letters spelt make Pach a Governour Duke or Prince Neh. 5. according to Ie. 48. also a snare which for his adversity hee maketh death and the grave as Ps. 18. Leviticus Nehemiah chap. 5. sheweth by useing the like wordes of this Psalme that hee is the Cryer and Governour and cheeff Prelate heer meant haveing the like occasion in the behalf of the church PSALM LXXXIX THe faithfullnes and kindenes and justice and judgement of the Everlasting by which the heaven and earth and all thrones are built and preserved must bee for ever sung And happy are the people that can delight and bee merry in the presence and light of the Everlasting beeing exalted by him Wher hee hath ordeined the sounding out of his Name And that ther is none to bee comparâ—ed either in heaven or earth to the Eternall for his warlikenes for might or counsell or terror for beating down the proud Nations and scattering of his Enimyes Now haveing exalted David and covenanted with him and sworn that his Throne shal be for ever and his seed after him and that hee would so strengthen him that no enimyes should hurt or oppress him and that hee would make him as deer as his Eldest sonn and give him a supremacey above all the kinges of the Earth and that hee would never take his kindenes from him onely correct him with â—odds for transgression of his Law Now hee noteeth that the Enimye hath the advantage and rejoyce God is angry and breaks his covenant Ierusalem is takeen and layd desolate the crown of his Anointed is cast on the ground the church is in captivity even in their prime their swordes nor their hartes have any edges to battell and his Throne is overturned and hee is abashed and is a reproche to his neighbours and prayeâ—h that hee would no longer now hide his face in his angâ—y dealing thus against them but remember what stripes they bee able to carry and not to make an end of them in his wrath but let them see his salvation in time and redeem them and to think of what continuance they are seeing oppression makes an end of the strongest and what was their Creation worth wâ—thout Redemption and think upon his kindenesses again and faithfull covenant to David and consider all his wayes after this correction and the Reproche that the church putteth up at the handes of thes great Nations their Enimyes that cannot abide his steps Construction Pe a mouth for all kindes of speech covenant swear confess triumph sing be mery with exalt speaking saying falsifying of promiss violating of covenant breaking his word changeing the thing that is gon out of his lipps lying reprocheing c. covenant law Iudgements prescriptions commandements his word or mouth Kindes of mouthes the edge of the sword the hand of hell or mouth Ps. 141. gaps in hedges and breaches in walls thou hast broken down all his walls c. Tet dirt or clay as beating for dust his throne is down and his garland and crown and all his exalting defiled in the ground and abaseed and all Kingdom and honour in the dust and shame and reproche to cover it His song is the Merceyâ—s and miraculous dealing of God and his truthe in promiss which is all his way Ps. 25. his mighty way of salvation rule and assistance See the repetition of kindenes and faythfullnes and wonders for kindenes and walk of divers writeing to bee noteed Mark the eternity and throne of God wher hee sitteth in his word which is his mouth for ever world without end for the wisdom and uprightnes therof Iudgement and Iustice. Leviticus The Seed of the woman shall crush the serpents head Ge. 3. Michael the Archangel of the covenant is cheeff prince and prelate heer Da. 7.10.12 Zac. 3. Ap. 12. Iude. Like Immanuel Is. 7.8 Nu. 13. as by Gods Name of might and strength to help and rule and commande El and Chasin Iah c. Mark the admiration who among the children of the Gods c. who is so mighty a God c. So Mi Ca El signifyeth who is like God Deut 33. cheeff in the congregation and counsell of the holy ones Hee beateth down the grown seas and lofty billows and heads of the Enimyes By his ministry called his Arm and right hand and strength therof which is called his help For this help hee peeked David out of the people to conquer the Enimyes one that no Serpent could prevent Ge. 3. The seed of his doctrine shall bee for ever Mark for the creation of the church the woman out of the Mans side from â—ll the wordes repeated build help before or for finde Enimy for serpent c. beguile c. onely the serpent shall reproche his steps and blaspheme or hurt his heeles Mark still the repâ—tition THE FOVVERTH BOOK PSALM XC COmpareing the age of man with the age of the Church they finde the ods to bee infinite not a wakeing in the night to a thousand yeers which they call but a shower of a sleep that they were in God before the creation and hath lasted ever since without extinguishment His servants bee brought to a few and pounded to dust but hee reviveeth them with sonns and daughters and when they flowerish moste their youthfullnes in iniquity angreth God
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
invadeers Like the frozen and setled ones Zeph. 1. The despisers and deriders Iob. 12. Ne. 4. Mat. 6. Luc. 16. Pro. 30. Caph of Caphaph the second letter to bow oppressed made to stoop bowed Ghimel the third letter reward the giveing of grace and countinance for their waiting as fit gifts for children And this as it is the work of the eye Prov. 30. So hee that dwelleth in the heavens the great regarder and great derideer is prayed unto Psal. 2. Maâ—k the repetition through out agreeing Deuteronomy Hee that prayeth unto God doth glorifye God Psal. 50. hee that commeth unto God confesseth that God is his praying for countenance is as much as confessing and publishing of his grace and repeating of his eternall life and everlasting way and wonderfull work of salvation Thes 15 Psalmes have a figurative excellence in them Is. 38. returning and reciteing and climeing higher and higher to heaven and understanding by words PSALM CXXIV MOnt Sion was the glory of Ierusalem and the Musitians the glory of Sion as Psal. 87. and thes Psalmes the glory of the Musitians The mery songs of Sion which they so much longed to hear and inquireed for in Babilon Ps. 137 by which men are sung alive again from death every Psalme beeing a step from misery and a step to honour and that of the Kingdom of heaven from the greatest ignorance and darknes to the greatest knowledge and light Heerby the Apostles sing open the prison doores and sing off the bandes of their feet for the word of God is not bound Psal. 68. Act. 16. 2. Tim. 2. and take the keeper prisoner For heer is a new earth a new citty and a new Sion and a new tabernacle of God with men and a new and a heavenly knowledge in man a new man which captiveeth all power and can not bee captiveed The fruit of the spirit beeing in all goodnes righteousnes and truthe sendeth out such hymnes and Psalmes and spirituall songes of thanks of melody in their hartes for salvation that maketh all manner of subjection captivity and bonds and imprisonment tolerable God is ever good unto his people and ever neer his elect as Ps. 73 to glorify his chosen as Psal. 84.86 when all the troubles and malice and anger in the world aros and kindled against them And hee cracketh all the building and plots of the Enimye by his goodnes kindenes when hee is called upon as Ps. 118. After long waiting as Ps. 40. and great affliction as Ps. 90.109 when the people of God bee even eaten up alive with reproche and scornful biteing and defamation at the handes of the proud at last God useeth to bee good and gratious and mercyfull and comfortable unto them by takeing theÌ„ out of thos lions jawes which in long gapeing get the cramp and neuer close again And though a world of nations like stoods of Enimyes set upon them yet ther is that dullnes in their understanding and sottery in proceeding dissention and division and imperfection in the manifacture of their cordes which they lay that they are soon brokeen for the devill beeing author of confusion of discord they no better agree one with another then they agree with the Church and their work is soon destroyed For the works of discord are not stâ—ong nor durable And thus ofteÌ„ times by the muteny of the Enimye the Church is safe as in Aegypt Assur Babilon c. Absolom c. wher the salvation of the Godly is out of the sight of the wicked and they have a miraculous deliverance and all by their invocation and calling upon the Name of God and serving of their Creator as 92. which in due time heareth yf they faint not And this is the Experience and hope which they have by patience wherby this Psalme suiteth with the former Construction Quoph of Jaquaph to inviâ—on is of the compassing of the Eâ—imy by the abundance and inundation of them compared to the swelling of Iordan and the proud warrs of the men of Adam their invasion Ios. 3. of the Church Iob 22. Ps. 42.116 Ier. 12. Ion. 1. The opposition is Gods present assistance and standing to them and with them by his existens and name Iehovah And about them in helping Rom. 8. Consider the first and last wordes doubled Caph for bowing down and pressing of the Enimye in captivity by snares and waters to wit the 70 of Babel See the affecting of Iod with Zain in Azza and in Zedonim to be multiplyed for 70. as Zain Gnain Ps. 25.34 Daleth a door is Gods discipline and remedy as the Medes and Persians to dissolve the captivity of the Babylonians Mark the repetition to all Deuteronomy Thes songes of return bee sufficient confâ—ssion of Gods mercyfull and miraculous deliverance which hee would have the Church still in minde of and to use them for repetitions as beeing so much bound for their salvation to him PSALM CXXV THey that beleeve not shall not bee established Righteousnes and God and the Kingdom of God is the same thing for other gifts of government are conteined in it Ther is no stedfastnes but in justice nor any trust or beleeff or assurance but in the everlastingnes therof becaus for this are Gods people immutable and immovable haveing the light of the Law and the glory therof shineing about them to guard them for ever That ther shall no wicked dominion Lordship or punishment rest wher the righteous dwell becaus they doo not wrong as Psal. 15. and that the wicked doo overgripe themselves that medle with them and are forceed to loos their hold and releas their captivityes Therfor hee that seeketh righteousnes seeketh all and hee that seeketh it findeeth all It is found in the Law called the face of God as Psal. 24. that pure Israel only seeketh and is blessed therwith The Church now prayeth for judgement favour to the upright strait and plain mindeed men and condemnation to the variable and crooked and declineers in hell with the mischevous and evill dooers as Ps. 5. That Israel may once have peace and the Ark have rest and the Church never faile Mat. 16. Construction Quoph the compassing heer is in the term about as the hills and the eternall Existence God doth guard his people by his providence the wicked shall not rest among them for fear of corrupting them the confident and faithfull shall not miscarry no more then hills or rockes Mat. 16. and this is the Eternall presence of God the faithfull according to the third letter He behold and the absence of the wicked that must not com nighe the Righteous The faithfull are defineâ—d good and upright strait and direct in their harts against declineers and benders and wrong and crooked wayes and this for Caph to bend or crook also So the cherishing of the good and the banishing of molesters is the way of peace Caph a hand or a shaft or rod as of the wicked Mark the
aspireing and ambitious appetite 1 Ioh. 2. not fit for a scholler Lamed and Alâ—ph for learning and instruction they make Lo not so that hee is no such but humble and a reformed man meek and docible fit to attend doctrine and the pleasure and kindenes of God He is not carried away with pride and worldly pleasure but is content to be taught as a childe his A. B Ce. Is. 28. and so hee sheweth by a double mention of the first letters of the rew And is contented with the things revealed Deut. 29. And so hee would have Israel to bee perpetually All the three letters make Quala to dis-esteem as hee was vile in his own eyes Mark these words repeated soul waiting not c. and words varyed high lofty great hard opposed to tame and plain and wained c. as Aspireing to contentment Deuteronomy All waiting of Israel is for grace and kindenes and performance of promiss to such as bee fitt and adopted and chosen c. while Israel serveth c. PSALM CXXXII THer is a majesty of Godlines ther is a heavenly countenance of pure religion but zeal and devotion make the dignity therof that a man may be found approoved and in all pointes perfect and holy before God Which is heeâ— shewed by Davids vow and the Lords considering both that is the place that David so devourly sought for and found the Lord so much delighted and affected And becaus their affections so met and their harts so well agreed and because God promissed to David all benefit of salvation from Sion by the Priesthood and aflowershing and a lerned and a dureing estate of the Kingdom yf hee kept his covenant and that hee will victuall the citty well with the word of God Psal. 81. and confound his enimyes therwith till they blush and retire therat hee prayeth God now to take his rest upon his holy hill and by the strength of his Law Ps. 99. the Ark of judgement and right to send it that the Priests may preach righteousnes Ps. 40. and the people doo all worship and the queristers sing out aloud holy holy holy and highly sanctifye the God of Sabboth with all habit and behaviour of holynes That the anointed may never remove or turn back again but seek unto their patience and faith and love and spirituall knowledge provide for all their wants that nothing may bee wanting but that they may overcom in their triall and bee refreshed in the paradise of God bee made Kings and weare the crown of Eternall life and be fed with the scriptures and to receive holy names in the book of life never to be blotted And reign over nations bee like everlasting pillers in the temple with new names of their new creation graven upon them sit in the throne of Godlynes blessed with all dignity and honour by thes keyes of knowledge that open all undeniable truthe shut the mouthes of fashood that bindeeth the divill and Satan hand and foot in his arguments and casteâ—h him into utter darknes and giveeth cleer light to them that sit in darknes and that hee would dissolve the chains of ignorance of them that walk in absurdity and redeem them and save them Construction Quoph to compass or inviron by his affliction and his vow of absteining from rest and fasting from so great an appetite to finde an entertainment and contentment for the great Pastor of Israel Lev. 23. Is. 58. also clothing or indueing Iob 19. Is. 61. Lamed doctrine from Beth-lehem and Sion wher the poor have their fill of bread Ier. 50. of righteousnes salvation perpetually preached and praises Beth a hous dwelling habitation place of rest footstool c see the doubling of the words and the synonimyes throughout appetite affliction and satisfaction is all Deut. 12. Hee reckoneth heer all the kindes of rests that can bee imagined because it is Gods rest and that by doubling the word Tabernacle hous bed sleep dwelling habitation footstool right doctrine a joyfull Ministry their Anoynted throne meat and bred of salvation a flowrishing crown their anoynted and shame to their Enimyes neither is hee unmindefull of the Quiescents grammaticall as in the word Jvva hee desired doubled Deuteronomy Sion is the place hee hath chosen to be served and glorifyed in Deut. 2. for a perpetuall countenance to his elect and a shame to their foes yf they observe his word and keep his covenant the life therof shall bee their life for ever Deut. 32. and they shall not bee stirred PSALM CXXXIII THe Church beeing setled in a quiet conscience and haveing a peacable Kingdom within them hee now commeth to the admiration of the goodnes and the benefit the glory and the sweetnes of it Wher hee makeeth the subjects all of one degree wher ther is no difference between the servant and the sonne male and female servant and servant far or neer ther beeing one maister and father and reconcileer unto all for they are both by grace and both by adoption nor between Iew and gentile bond or free for ther is a redemption from bondage and a freedom from servitude to which as well they in the house as out of the hous are predestinated â—o becom all alike the children of God beeing led by the spirit of God And thus Christ was before Abraham and thus Abraham rejoyced to see his dayes by haveing the same Kingdom and religion in his bosom So that ther is no priority or preheminence heer to take place and as they are all children and sonnes of God by faith so they are all heires and all part-takeers of the Kingdom and blessednes therof as they have been part-takeers of the suffering belonging to it And therfor are they called bretheren for all have one and the same birth parentage haveing the same conceites dooing the same workes leading the same lives minde the same thinges knit together all in one minde beeing of the same study affection the same indevour the same subjection and the same protestation and this in the same service of God the father and maister in all holynes and rightheousnes when all their hartes agree in all things and God with them how admirable indeâ—d may they say is their dwelling together It yeeldes a sweet prospect for how sweet are the sermons of righteousnes that flow over the Priests lips and drop down his beard and the gift of grace and the indument of them that runneth down all the coat of Levi from highe to low even to the skirts and the doctrine that falleth upon them as the dew upon the grass Theâ— is no ointment so sweet and good nor rain so pleasant as thes savery showers of heavenly understanding and spirituall blessings and everlasting life when as from hill to hill one hart lendeth another grace and knowledge and peace joy eternall in a quiet minde Construction Quoph to compass so the band of fraternity Za. 11. and vnity of religion Lamed the
mighty hand and long reaching arm all the wonderfull works in the world of his goodnes and his mercey Psal. 23. and his everlasting Kingdom of kindenes and compassion in cutting off the ungodly and saveing of the Church in thinking upon them in their low estate and setling them in their enimyes land and provideing food for all flesh the unperishing food of his word the searching wherof is the bread of eternall life and an everlasting nuriture So the wicked are visited justly for ignorant worship and workmanship to the sowerth degree of the ungodly and disobedient but his mercy is to last for thousands even for ever to the Godly and obedient rebellion against the word beeing a sinn of witche craft and transgression moste wicked idolatry Ther was no imagination presented or propounded with it but that all tricks formes and fansyes of man wear vain and hatefull and abominable Psal. 119. S. For this Godhead of understanding beeing the God of all possiblity and to whom nothing is impossible or hard but all his wayes are secrets and miraculous in the eyes of man wherby all was made and facioned and revealed preserved and maintened and by perpetuall judgement defended and saveed how absurd then is the imploreing of sensless aide against all rule of creation and against the Kingdom of grace prayed for Yf hee doth the things which no man els doth why beleeve they him not yf not for his own sake yet for his works hee ought to bee beleeved in and trusted unto Therfor that they worship that wonderfull Creator defender and preserver the God of heaven that made the heaven and the earth the sea and all fountains for his infinite works of mercey grace and compassion in his Kingdom by his heavenly light of wisdom reason and knowledge invented disscerned and brought in frame and not so placable Gods of their own makeing wherin against all reason and understanding the Creature is set in place of the Creator and a man worshipeth what hee will and contenteth himself as hee will which is moste monstrous For this invention yeeldeth no correction nor amâ—ndment and is no part of the Kingdom prayed for seeing no obedience is due to the work of a mans own hands no more then the father should obey the childe or childâ—en lay up and provide for their parents Therfor who so ever receiveth not the Kingdom of God as a litle childe for correction and obedience hee shall not enter therinto Construction Quoph of Jaquaph to compass by kindenes ps 32. worship and adoreing of the ministers tormentors the contrary Lamed for lerning the word of creation and preservation The Eternall his existens is of so great extent and power and wisdom by his ministry that it maisters all the gods and kings and lords of the world Deut. 10. Ex. 34. The divers vowelling of Iehovah used but once all the psalme intendeth but rule and might and mercie ps 102. repeated according to the letters Iehovah twenty six times Vav a hook or crook hee brought them out c. hee freed them from c. Lord and worship agree Ier. 22. Ps. 8. Mark the repetition The three letters make quolo his voice or word as Ps. 29. Deuteronomy the Ministers are set to prais and bless and worship 1 Cro. 16. so in the last psalme and this the Eternall is the mighty Actor of salvation by his grace Mark the first and last words and the continuall burden of the song for a rehearsall Gods kindenes twenty six times repeated according to the number of 26 made up just by the letters of Jehovah PSALM CXXXVII IN this psalme the Iewes shew care in pleasing God rather than man their Creator Redeemer and Inductor rather than their captiveer and suspender for either they will not sing at all and hang up their harps or if they will have them to sing it shall be that which they have little pleasure to hear for fear of takeing Gods name in vain and transgressing his will in vain rejoyceing in their heavy season against their harts or makeing their enimies mery with their sacred and good things which God would not allow of So that after they have made it a hard thing to sing for people in their case and harder to rejoyce with holy songs of Sion and that they did not think it meet to sing thes holy things among such houndes in a strange and an enimies land yet that the name of Sion and fame of Ierusalem may not be forgotten by them they take down their harps and apply their fingers and looss their tongs from the rooffs of their mouthes to shew that all their joy and delight was in Ierusalem and not with them all their song is nothing but a bitter prayer to God for a terrible revenge and payment upon them That as the Edomites incouraged to destroy Ierusalem to the ground to the utter ruine and desolation of it and no less could content them and the destroying citty Babel performd as much that now God would remember all their dealing and make them happy that should require them treble ps 94. with a merciless revenge and destruction uppon them that ther may be no mercy to the merciless or their children but that it may pleas God to dash them all in peeces against the stones with an utter confusion and destruction of them And this lest they should transgress the third commandment and displeas their God at their enemies request to use his name unprofitabely and deserv new punishment and disobey his known will and be worse beaten than before after their return home And becaus all pleasure is a kinde of idolatry but the true and only worship of God they will not pleas themselves nor their enemies with one word of their lips ps 16. nor shed one drop of prais or sacrifice any commendation to them at all Construction Quoph to compass Captiveers Inthraulers hanging takeing Lamed lerning his tong and hand shall be disused and all cunning forgotten Babel is repeated for a town of confusion and destruction of learning Gen. 11. IerusaleÌ„ for perfection alludeing to both mount Sion opposed to the rivers also So weeping and mirth remembring c. by Zain to hear by singing Song the sens rule of relation as the eares are the daughters of songs Eccl. 12. they shall be happy that pay theÌ„ with coÌ„fusion that seek it Obadiah mark the repetitioÌ„ you shall see the A. B. C. confouÌ„ded also by words of purpos under words of song which is also vers he conceals a return or torment Deuteronomy Singing is heer the act of repeating for a memoriall It shall be life eternall to punish persecutors So he hath still minde of his wonderfull way of salvation mark the repeating of these words happy repay dealt down with it c. PSALM CXXXVIII HEaring is the way to Christ and Moses and the Prophets are the Doctors to draw men unto him for they shall be all taught of God
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