of the kingdom expressed and way of eternall life for a confession celebration or rehearsall PSALM CXLVII BEcause Gods prais is so desireable a thing and so comely and God so good and so pleasant for building Ierusalem as a nest for his Saints and a Synagogue of all the Church to salve all their dispersion cure their broken harâ—s bindeing up their grief keeping the number of all his starts ministers in the book of life and makeing a catalogue of them becaus their lord is of great power and of infinite understanding continueing the lowly makeing the weakest to last longest and humbling the wicked and proudest and strongest to the ground for covering the heavens of understanding with parabolicall clouds and makeing lerning to rain on the earth and grass and food for all creatures that call for it and hath his onely delight and pleasure in them that fear him and wait for his kindenes and not in mans desires or humane delights as ps 37.33 Because hee hath made their citty strong gates of salvation by the doctrine of the Prophets to keep it as ps 127 and blessed their children with the comfort of the word of God within it as ps 28.29 and peace and plenty of fine wheat flower in all her borders sending out his word and servants that most speedily runn through the whole land that when a winter season of frost and snow and hard clumpers of ice are cast out to possess the intractable hearts of men to correct the stubbornnes of man and to mollifie their hardnes and to make them more fruitfull and to add strength unto them for increas and multiplication of them hee by and by sendeth his spirit the south and warm winde of his word and thaweth them and they yeeld doctrine that no other nation should know his judgements which follow properly after the commandements as just payments for the breaches of them and a perfect recompens of all mens works giveing them waight for waight and measure for measure Therfor according to ps 92. hee willeth to prais God and chant out his prais and becaus his wisdom in this psalm is so infinitely set out as his speciall property heer hee ascribeth that unto him and willeth that they sing psalms to him with thanks on the harp ps 92 and that Ierusalem and Sion above all should commend and prais him for their so great benefit for the service of him ps 92. Furthermore haveing done with the preacher hee commeth now to the sermon which is righteosnes and this is the content of all the Scriptures and summ of them the word of God and sword of the spirit which hee handleth ps 141· Therfor in this psalm hee reckoneeth the books of the bible as Ovid reckoned the books of Virgill Am. Eleg. 15. then fo this work and authority and first the five books of the Law then the first Prophets conteining Iosuah Iudges Samuel and Kings the charets and horsmen of Israel and lastly the sixteen last Prophets the strong barrs of the citty gates of Ierusalem as ps 127. the garrison of peace in their borders and plentifull provision of chois blessings within it with sweet annotations for mention of them wherein hee sheweth that although God hath given the church the cup of his wrath to taste and sent them the hard weather of his swift judgement by the law of condemnation and makeing their hearts as cold as hard as a stone yet turning the winde about ther commeth a thaw of comfortable doctrine out of the Prophets to save them So that the whole Scriptures and scope of them and the iudgements and prescripts and comfort and salvation beeing onely known unto the Church all the world could not compare with them as ps 47. And heerin is the pleasantnes and sweetnes of the everlasting And this is a most seemly prais and that which best becommeth Preachers and that which they are bound unto Construction Quoph to compass or invireon by the building of Ierusalem by the walls borders and limits that contein them Lam. 3. g. seeing the termination of the word Ierusalem is peace another part of the kingdom Mark the doubling of the word kindes of compassing gathering bindeing and summing or telling c. Scatter Mem waters his saying word prescripts judgements sending drop waters rain thaweth snow frost ice and cold for properties Zain to hear or make to hear by the coactive sens and this is by words of declaration tell number declare all doubled His hearing is by contenting them that call and giveing them dayly food and sustenance of the word Miqra the Scripture and accepting of them Mat. 6.4 to them that hee delighteeth in and wait for his kindenes Mark the doubling and definition bread wheatenflower morsels c. according to Quemach the number of the next psalm which is flower or meal Deuteronomy The confession heer is in all kindes of words of prais and commendation of the eternall in three places of the psalm For his sundry acts of his way of eternall life in sundry manners by Ierusalem for his goodnes to them and especiall regard of them Mark the doubling PSALM CXLVIII IN this psalm because Gods words and commandments have formed them and made them that they are hee willeth that of right and by good reason they should all creatures in the world do his commandment and set forth his prais out of heaven in the highest as ps 92. and that hee willeth his angels and ministers of his church and all the army of them beeing the whole hoste of heaven and heavenly sanctuary to doo And out of the earth all the instruments and organs of his wrath ps 72.18 that are his executioners as in the Revelation that they prais him the great mountains and kingdoms of the world the most glorious trees and liveing creatures to prais and commend his creation and the installing of man to a second and a better wisdom of repentance and amendment of life and reformation and regeneraon of the Church of God that bringeth still their salvation and all sorts of people to doo the same Becaus his name onely is to bee exalted and his worship spread above and over all the earth and the heaven and all â—lements psal 68. for exalting the church For now is salvation in heaven by a cleer judgement and separation of the clean from the unclean and just to life and the unjust to damnation by his message of ill angels ps 90. the whirling and side-long wheeles of Gods angry judgement Is. 5. Ezek. 10. Like tempestuous whirlwindes from the creation Gen. 1. That all the starrs of the ministry should prais God out of the Scriptures in lofty stiles for their glorious creation and limitation from the Law even the angels that sail above the heavens in the waters therof as Abraham Isaac and Iacob and the tribes Moses and Aaron and the Levites and all low degreees of creaâ—ures either by sinne or destiny to prais him
of Wicked men shall perish CXIII PRAISE the ETERNALL Praise yee ô Servantes of the ETERNALL praise the NAME of the ETERNALL let the NAME of the ETERNALL be blessed from this time till for euer from the Riseing of the Sunn to his Goeing downe let the NAME of the ETERNALL be praised The ETERNALL that is highe aboue all Nations and his GLORY is aboue the Heauens VVho is like the ETERNALL our GOD that hath his Dvvelling a highe in the Heauens and humbleth to look vpon the Earth That raiseth the empty man out of the dust and setteth vp the Needy from the donghill to make him sit vvith Prince-es and vvith the Principall of his People makeing the barren vvoman to inhabit the House and to be a joyefull Mother of children the ETERNALL be praised CXIV WHEN Israel came out of Egypt and the House of Iacob from the Barbarous People and Iury was his SANCTVARY and Israel his DOMINION the Sea saw and fled and Iordan turned back The Mountaines DAVNCE-ED like Lambes and the little Hilles like yong Sheep What is the matter with thee ô Sea that thou fledst thou Iordan that thou turnedst back yee Mountaines that yee daunceed like Lambes and yee little Hilles like yong Sheep For the Presence of the LORD tremble ô Earth for the Presence of the GOD of Jacob that turneth the hard-stony rock into springing vvater pooles CXV NOT vnto vs ô ETERNALL not vno vs giue GLORY but vnto thy NAME for thy LOVEING KINDENES and thy TRVTH Wherfore should the Hethen SAY VVher I pray you is their GOD and our GOD is in Heauen doth vvhatsoeuer hee pleaseth Their Images of siluer and gold the work of mens handes haue mouthes and speak not they haue eyes and see not and eares and hear not and noses and smell not and wag not with their handes nor walk with their feet they haue noe talk in their throates So be their makers and euery one that trusteth in them Israel trust thou in the ETERNALL whose help and Defence hee is Thou House of Aaron trust yee in the ETERNALL whose help and Defense hee is Yee that fear the ETERNALL trust yee in the ETERNALL whose help and Defense hee is That the ETERNALL that remembreth vs may blesse hee may blesse the House of Israel and blesse the House of Aaron and blesse them that fear the ETERNALL small and great That the ETERNALL may ad abundantly vpon you vpon you and vpon your Children bee yee the blessed of the ETERNALL maker of Heaven and Earth The Heavens of Heavens are the ETERNALLS and the Earth hee hath giuen to the Children of men the DEAD shall not praise the ETERNALL nor they that are gone into SILENCE Therfor wee will blesse the ETERNALL from this time and for ever The ETERNALL be praised CXVI I Loue the ETERNALL because hee hath hard my VOYCE of my SVPPLICATIONS and because hee hath turned his eares vnto mee in the dayes of calling The snares of death had hold of mee and the torments of Hell came vpon mee and I found greevous misery And I CALLED vpon the Name of the ETERNALL J beseech thee ô ETERNALL reskew my Life And the ETERNALL that is GRATIOVS and JVST and our GOD that is moste MERCIFVLL the ETERNALL that preserveth the simple ones VVhen I vvas vtterly spent holpe mee Turne to thy REST ô my Soul for The ETERNALL hath don BOVNTIFVLLY for thee For thou hast released my Person from death mine eyes from teares and my feet from Scatering that J might vvalke before the ETER among the liuing I beleeved for I SPAKE when I was exceedingly afflicted and I SAYED in my hast All men are lyers What shall I RETVRNE to the ETERNALL for all his GOOD-TVRNES bestowed vpon mee J vvill take the CVP of SALVATION and make Invocation vpon the NAME of the ETERNALL I vvill pay my VOVVES to the ETER yea in the Sighte of his People the death of his Saintes beeing deer in the sight of the ETERNALL O ETERN I BESEECH thee because I am thy Servant I am thy Servant and sonne of thy Handmayde loose my bandes that I may Sacrifice SACRIFICE-ES of Thanks-offering and make Invocation vpon the NAME of the ETERN and pay my Vowes to the ETERN in the sight yea of all his people in the Courts of the House of the ETERN and in the mids of thee O Ierusalem praised be the ETERNALL CXVII PRAISE the ETERNALL all yee Nations commend him all yee People for his passing LOVEING KINDENES vpon vs and the TRVTH of the ETERN that is for euer The ETERNALL be praised CXVIII WORSHIP the ETERNALL because hee is GRATIOVS For his Loveing Kindenes is for euer Let Israel SAY that his Loveing Kindenes is for euer O let the House of Aaron SAY that his Loveing Kindenes is for euer O let them that fear the ETER SAY that his Loving Kindenes is for euer Out of my Affliction I Called vpon the ETER the ETER heard mee at large The ETERN is with mee I am not afrayed vvhat man shall doe vnto mee The ETERN is with mee among my HELPERS and J doe look vpon my foes It is better to RELY on the ETERN then to put any TRVST in man It is better to RELY on the ETERNALL then to put trust in Principall men For all the People came about mee and in the NAME of the ETERNALL J cut them off For vvhen they compassed mee yea and had be set mee rounde about in the NAME of the ETERNALL I cut them off They came about mee like bees but they vvent out like a thorn fire and in the NAME of the ETERNALL I cut them off Thou hast cast mee sore downe and I fell and the ETERNALL hath holpen mee My Confidence and Sonet shall bee the ETERN that hath been my SALVATION a loud VOYCE of SALVATION in the TABERNACLES of the RIGHTEOVS The right hand of the ETERNALL hath done valiantly the right hand of the ETERN bee exalted the right hand of the ETERN hath done valiantly and while I liue and am not dead I will DECLARE the DOOINGS of the ETERNALL The ETERN corrected mee sorely yet gaue mee not vnto death open yee righteous gates I may enter in by them and worship the ETERNALL This is the Gate
With speaking against it or denieing it Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass or invireon for the kindenes of God that doth allwayes stand about the faithfull and protecteth them and helpeth them and comforteth them that trust in him Ps. 32.33 Quotou they are yrksom lothsom and tedious as are the Images that ther is no use of For ther is no light in us but in the Law of God that is the makeer of heaven and earth See the repetition God thrise for the opposeing of Imagees God can doo all things and they nothing Eternall for affection and preservation of the whole church Trust help and defense c. Prais Iah 15. by the works of Iehovah and for the spirit therof that images have not Ps. 135.149 Deuteronomy The reciteing and Rehersall heer is the generall blessing of God for his grace and the wonderfull light of his truthe through faith Mark the repetition Israel Aaron and all that fear God bless Eternall twise abridged Jah for Jehovah heaven upon you twise c. For multiplyeing of his grace for ever And this serveth for an admiration of the wonderfull way of God Imagees and dead men can say nothing to it it belongs to the liveing to register the Acts of the Eternall That they may bee of blessed memory and have a fruitfull posterity Consider the infinite increas and fructifyeing in Egypt Deut. 10. Num. 2. According to the Name of Ioseph in phrase of adding as Act. 2. And his blessing Gen. 49. Deut. 33. As the like is in the next of Iosuah in phrase of saveing Dealing upon the story as it goes PSALM CXVI THis psalme is joined to the former by shewing why the Name of God should bee so glorifyed above all as Ps. 92. And the effect of calling upon him for at what time so ever hee calleth in what distress so ever hee bee and whatsoever hee requesteth it is readily graunted and hee is heard and reveeled When for misâ—rable distress and greeff the very pangs of death and the grave had fallen upon him and had hold of him as Psal. 18. that hee doubted of life and hee was quite exhausted and spent as David Psal. 142. hee prayeth for life and hee was holpen that is the Everlasting that is just and kinde in all things of his wayes and works and preserveth the simple ones by his word as Ps. 19. saveed him When hee was so spent with affliction and misery that no promiss of life or salvation could possess him or comfort him and all that was promissed was incredible unto him and seemed unpossible and yet for the deer respect of his saintes hee savâ—ed him delivering him from death and pain and wandering to walk before God and his Saintes in immortality For this grace hee professeth the love of God and willeth his minde and soule to bee content and at quiet and throughly satisfyed and take rest seeing God hath dealt so bountifully with him as nothing more is to bee demanded nor any thing can bee a sufficient reward for his good turns so doubled and trebled upon him Therfor hee will take the Scriptures the book of the Law of the promiss of the Covenant and all the doctrine called the book of salvation and from thence throughout them all wassail and call upon the Name of God Ps. 119. Q. and sacrifice his devotion in Sermons of Thanks unto him in presence of all his people in witnes therof and willeth him to bee praised And as hee is his Minister and servant at his right hand and sonn of his handmaid the Church hee requesteth that hee may bee loosed and at liberty to doo the same accordingly Now seeing God calleth his sonn the Church out of Egypt heer is likewise their invocation the mercey of God upon them in redeeming them from sorrow and bringing them home to Eden their promissed rest of Canaan the gift of the Nations and their contentment and love and thankfullnes for the same to the study and contemplation of the Law of God for the love therof For their continuall succour and satisfaction safe conduit and comfort by the righteousnes and glory and pureity therof as Ps. 19. recovering them even from the chaines and thralldoom of ignorance and pit of despaire by his miraculous grace and reconciliation to serve him in all perfet knowledge and understanding in the Church and Paradise of God for ever wherto they are also thankfull and devoteed above measure And seeing all thes may well content hee willeth his soul to turn to her rest shewing how bountifull God hath dealt with him and resolving to pay ample vowes for the same Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to invireon or compass is heer dilateed by snares and torments and bonds and misery strict affliction and with releas and deliverance the opposit terms Iod a hand for death and hell and bondes that apprehended him and had hold of him Vav a crook hath the same sens but by way of saveing redeemeing and deliveringe and pulling him out of the snares and grave of affliction c. Hee would fain bee loosed that hee might serv him becaus hee is his servant See the repetition The three letters make Quaju they vomited hee dealeth on the contrary which is his love and good digestion of the good turns and merceyes of God upon him Which agree well with the godly by their deliverance when they call upon him Ier. 25. in so much that they mean to make him recompense by the thankfull service of him The Mercifull Eternall Jah the Name of Iehovah is fifteen times repeated Hee dealeth heer upon Ghimel as in the 103. And Iah and therfor ther want three verses of the A B C. Mark diligently the repetition and the kindes of instruments Deuteronomy Hee will call and speak and preach much of the Name of God and celebrate and proclaim his wonderfull merceyes by daily service offering and sacrifice for a recitation For hee redeemed them from slaveish death of Egypt and satisfyed them and gave them rest by Iosua by phrase of helping or saveing Mark the words Name Call beseech death liveing bountifull good turns Eternall for merceyfull Gratious invocation servant pay vowes in the sight of his people doubled in the place of rest Heb. 4. They make earnest heer of their delusion of Pharoh by their excuse of departure Ex. 4.5 c. PSALM CXVII THis Psalme by grace in the last psalme reaching to the kindenes and truthe Psal. 115. for which Gods name is so laudable and glorious and so to psal 92. wher it is to bee chaunted out for it and seeing it lighteth upon a seventh and therfor to require a rest as also for sanctification of the seventh yeer after the forty from Aegypt with a Sabath work of rest for the land according to the 47. dayes rain before the entering the Ark also for the number of the subdueed nations beeing seven which the loveing kindenes of God and his faithfullnes overcame and the strength
by subjection and the kings and judges in the person of Adam reigning and ruleing over all things liveing and therfor were they to prais him Young men and maides becaus hee was created male and female Old folkes and children by their fructifying and multiplication of a godly seed from the word Increas and Multiply And in this becaus Israel was best entertained and the nearest people to him and had all preferment that his worship and exaltation of his name should in no wise bee neglected of them his Saints for ever Construction Quoph to compass or to inviron as with the cloke of prais Is. 61. from all his creatures and his dwelling in praises and inhabiting of them Ps. 22. that all his works and especially his people Israel and his messengers neerest about him for his exaltation of them should inviron him with prais Apoc. 19.4 Mark the words highthes hold up above exalt doubled Iehovah only Mem waters The name of the Eternall to be praised before and above heaven and earth and all the most commendable things of the world becaus they were made and exalted by him Hee worketh upon the term Iehovah By all the moods and tenses in the Hebrew how hee was imperative future and infinite and never preterite and transitory according to the present tens Hove Jehovah hee shall bee and remain for ever in his works and decrees ps 119· and therfor is called Eternall The waters all kinde of nations kindes and degrees Mark people heaven earth c. The name is six times for six dayes work Hee is to prais the name of Iehovah and that hee doth in the term Hu the affix of Iehovah as Elihu Abihu which two letters in number make iust the repetition of the word prais Heth to prostrate is implyed in the adoration and exaltation and worship of him and casting down their crowns before him Apoc. 4. Quemach meal for all sorts Persius sat 3.5 Deuteronomy Infinite praises and worship is due to him for leaving so many commendations behinde him in his works of all sorts ps 11 1. and this must needs bee confessed a work of great mercy and kindenes also and way of eternall life PSALM CXLIX NOw that the judgement may bee the cleere hee maketh this Psalme a copula or Medium suitable to the former last gon before To tell this judgement was the work of all the Prophets untill Iohn and then this kingdom was takeen by violence and force and men pressed unto it So that now after all places of invention hee now commeth to a collection or syllogizeing of the whole work by the judiciall part for ever unconfuteable That God that made the world should judge the same by sound confirmations consequences and proprietyes and rightes and lawes according to the power of his name Eloah and Elohim of Alah to swear to doo judgement and justice and right and to perform the oath which hee sware to bee a perpetuall redemption to his Church Psal. 110. and a glory to his people Israel with a reprooveing of all injury and injustice of the reprobate So the end is com the end is com as the Prophet sayth and Satan with all his perversity and adversity with all his malice and falshood and subdolity and treachery is judged and the day of wrath is com and hee is discovered and overcom and cast down and condemned for his cotinuall persecution of the Church For this benefit they are greatly to prais his name and sing Psalmes to him in honour of his name make invocation therupon that hath don all for them for reprooving confuteing and tormenting all their adversaryes and cheeff of them and that the Saintes for this peace should leap up in their beds for joy and make a glorious exaltation and triumph for this great day of victory and salvation with accents of exaltations and highe prayses of God and choise songs in their throats and a sharp sword in their handes lyeing by them to shew their meanes of deliverance and courage and valour and preparation of the word of God their defendour that whispers in the ears of all men and warneth them Heerto belong the fignified vertues in the apparell of the Priesthood that they may bee happy whom the Eternall the God of justice chargeeth not with iniquity Psal. 32. So that now it is in vain for to strive as Psal. 2. or the Kings and heades to think of casting away the cordes and bandes of their yokes of subjection to the Church for hee hath appointed his King over Sion and his horn and his anoynted and his prais as Psal. 141.92.86 God hath still favoured them that fear him and planted a gardine of pleasure for them that hee hath begotten a paradise of safety and salvation for his children and hath appointed his Angels and Ministers to pitch about them as Ps. 34. King of Iacob Is. 41.43 Ier. 8. to keep and preserve the way of righteousnes in this life the tree of their lives in holynes And with this grace hath God clotheed his saintes while their Enimyes are judged as ps 2.92.79 and for this ornament and Paradise and comly weed of salvation the skinn that covereth all nakednes that hath no cloud of shames upon it no spot or wrinkle in it Eph. 5. That his saintes should prais him in their congregation with a sonet of all confidence as ps 118. Construction Quoph to compass or inviron as the gratious ones Israel and the children of Sion in praising of him with Ioy in the holy Ghost another part of the Kingdom ps 145. in commendation of Iah their King and makeer Is. 53.22.41.43 Ier. 8. ps 29.48.24 by the spirituall and gutturall sound and prononciation of Iehovah psal 115.135 For every Law must have a King Jehovah calamity Jad a hand He the coactive conjugation of Hiphil working salvation and revenge Mark the words gratious ones and saintes maker work and fullfill Mem waters people heathen nations Kings Nobles c. The calamity and captivity of them and cutting them off and wearying of them according to Quamat to bee wearyed or dissolved Iob 16.22 Jah is intimated By exaltations in his Throat is the aspiration of He meant beeing a gutturall letter so is Iod signifyed by sword for hand ps 17. And thus hee is taken for maker King and God and Almighty and Revenger So they have the name of God or God in their throat and in their hand Mark all the words of Ioy rejoyceing and prais according to it and the repetition upon all Is. 45. Deuteronomy By all kindes of rejoyceing for their salvation the glory of their Kingdom 145.111.112.45 for his notable acts and the majesty of his name Jah in them in makeing and governing and saveing of them in beeing kinde to the kinde c. as psal 18. And this prais is also a good confession or rehearsall of his grace in the other Psalme his works and frame of the world set him out in