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A52303	David's harp strung and tuned, or, An easie analysis of the whole book of Psalms cast into such a method, that the summe of every Psalm may quickly be collected and remembred : with a devout meditation or prayer at the end of each psalm, framed for the most part out of the words of the psalm, and fitted for several occasions / by the Reverend Father in God, William ... Lord Bishop of Gloucester.	Nicholson, William, 1591-1672.	1662 (1662)	Wing N1111; ESTC R18470	729,580	564

vigour thy growth And because the Prophet in the beginning of the verse spoke of Gods people of their holiness their willingness methinks it is most consonant to the drist of the Text to expound these words of their Regeneration also of their increase of their growth in grace and the causes of it the Word of God and the operation of his Spirit which as I said is the dew But I leave to every man to take for his guide in this case either the Ancient or Modern Divines Now I go on with the Psalmist 2. The Prophet having foretold Christs Kingdom The second part Christ a Priest now descends to predict his Priesthood under which his Prophetical Office may well be implied for the Priests lips were to preserve knowledge Ver. 4 and the people were to require the Law at their mouth Now that no man ever doubt that the Messiah was to be a Priest at his coming God hath confirmed with an Oath with an irreversible Oath 1. The Lord sware His Word had been enough but for Assurance 1 Confirmed by an Oath he hath given his Oath Beatos nos quorum causa jurat Deus sed miseros nos sine juranti quidem credimus It seems that in the Priesthood of Christ lies the main weight of our Redemption that God takes an Oath to assure us he should be a Priest that he should be a King that he should be a Prophet he swears not though he was to be both but he secures to us this Office because nor his being a King nor Prophet could have redeemed us had he not been a Priest to offer himself to dye to intercede to satisfie Gods wrath for us 2. Sworn he hath and he will not repent This is also added for our greater assurance Sometimes we shall read in Scripture of Gods Repentance 2 Of which God repents not as in the case of the old World in the case of Nineveh then he was to do justice and to destroy which Isaiah calls opus alianum But now he was to save the World by this Priest his Son and he takes an Oath to do in and he repents not nor ever will repent of it His sentence for judgment is ever conditional and then he is said to repent when he executes it not his words have not the effect Non affectu vertitur sed avertitur nostra penitentia orationibus But his Decree for mercy is absolute as it was here he will not repent nor alter the thing gone out of his lips 3. The matter of the Oath followes 3 The matter of the Oath Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedech Not a word here that ought to pass without a Note 1. Thou is emphatical Thou Davids Lord art a Priest and none such a Priest but Thou 1 Thou art a Priest 2. Art For this Priest was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am and then it might rightly be said of him Thou art 3. A Priest whose Office thus the Apostle describes Hebr. 5.1 To be a person taken from among men yet ordained for men in things pertaining to God that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity 4. 2 For ever For ever They truly viz. Aaron and his Successors were many Priests because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death but this man because he continueth for ever hath an unchangeable Priesthood Hebr. 7.23 3 After the order of Melchizedech 24. 5. After the Order that is the Right the Law the Custom the Tradition or Rites 6. Of Melchizedech which is opposed to the Order of Aaron he was not then to be a Priest after the Order of Aaron but by a former and higher Order The difference betwixt the Aaronical Priesthood and Christs the difference lies in this 1. In the Constitution of him to the Priesthood He was made with an Oath and so were not any of Aarons Order This Saint Paul observes Hebr. 7.20 21. 2. In the Succession In Aarons Priesthood the High Priest being mortal as he began so also he ended he dyed and another succeeded But this Priest after Melchizedech had no Successor as Melchizedech he was without father on earth without mother in heaven he had neither beginning of dayes nor end of life Hebr. 7. 3. Melchizedech was King and Priest and so was Christ Aaron a Priest only 4. Aaron and his sons offered up Oxen Sheep first for their own sins then for the people Levit. 16.6 But Christ being holy blameless undefiled Hebr. 7.26 offered not any Sacrifice for himself but for our sins Isa 53.9 5. Aaron was a local Priest tyed to the Temple at Jerusalem a Priest of one people but Christ an universal Catholick Priest a Priest for all persons all places John 4.21 6. Aaron anointed with material Oyle Christ with the Holy Ghost Luke 4.18 21. 7. Aarons Priesthood temporary Christs for ever The difference betwixt his Priesthood Christ a Priest having the characters required by St. Paul and that of Aaron is evident though then no such Priest yet a Priest and according to Saint Pauls definition Hebr. 5.1 2. 1. A Priest is to be a person taken from among men a man then he must be though a select a choice man every man not fit for the Office and so was Christ a perfect man 1 A man 2. Ordained yet a choice man one of a thousand Cant. 1. 2. A Priest must be ordained by God For no man takes upon him that honour who is not called by God as was Aaron so Christ glorified not himself to be made an High Priest but he that said unto him Thou art my Son 3 For men this day have I begotten thee Hebr. 5. 3. The High Priest was ordained for men in things pertaining to God for men he is ordained that he may plead their cause to God to be their Advocate Mediator Interpreter and Reconciler in all those things in which men make their Addresses to God or God is to signifie his Will to them And so was Christ for he is the Advocate the Mediator for his people he reconciles man to God he interprets his Will to us by preaching the Gospel to the poor 4. 4 To offer sacrifice The High Priest was ordained that he might offer Gifts and Sacrifices for sins Their Sacrifices were the blood of Bulls and Goats which could not take away sins But as a Priest Christ offer'd also a Sacrifice a Sacrifice of blood but far more precious than that of Beasts being himself and his own blood Ephes 5.2 Hebr. 9.26 Hebr. 10.10 11 12. 5. 5 Compassionate The High Priest must have compassion on the ignorant and on those that are out of the way And such a Priest was Christ For we have not an High Priest which

the Ark or else by the setling of it in the Temple by Solomon to foretel the Ascension of Christ into heaven who was the true Ark of the Covenant and the Propitiatory Then there was a Jubilee and so there must be at the remembrance of this It contains a Prophesie of Christs Kingdom and it hath two especial parts First Christs ascension typified An invitation to sing praises to Christ Secondly The reasons that perswade to it 1. Vers. 5 The Ascension of Christ is under the Arks ascension typified Verse 5. God is gone up with a shout His invitation to praise God for it the Lord with the sound of a Trumpet 2. Upon which he invites that we do that at this feast which was then done Vers. 1 viz. That we clap hands and sing praises That this be done 1. Cheerfully O clap your hands for clapping of hands is an outward sign of inward joy Nahum 3.19 2. Universally O clap hands all ye people 3. Vers. 6 Vocally Shout unto God with the voice of melody 4. Frequently Sing praises sing praises sing praises sing praises vers 6. And again sing praises vers 7. It cannot be done too often 5. Knowingly and discreetly Sing ye praises with understanding know the reason why you are to praise him 3. Now these reasons are drawn from his Greatness and his Goodness 2 The reasons to perswade to it 1. He is Great He is the Lord the most high 2. Terrible 3. A great King over all the earth All power at his Ascension 1 God great given to him in heaven and earth Vers. 2 2. He is a Good God Vers. 7 1. In collecting his Church by subduing the Nations 2 Good and that in four respects not by a Sword but by his Word and Spirit by which he would subdue their iniquities the iniquity of the Jew first Vers. 3 and then of the Gentile For the Law was to come out of Zion and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem To the discipline of that Religion and Service which we profess both were to submit and therefore both might well be said to be subdued to us and be brought under our feet Vers. 4 2. In honoring and rewarding his Church He shall chuse out an heritage for us even the worship of Jacob whom he loved 1. His Church was his choice A chosen generation a select people 2. His heritage for he will dwell among them and provide an inheritance for them blessings on earth and an inheritance in heaven 3. This is the worship and glory of Jacob of Jacob after the Spirit the Kingdom Priest-hood and all the promises made unto Jacob and the Fathers being theirs 4. The cause His love only He chose Vers. 7 c. because he loved 3. In increasing and amplifying his Church God is the King now of all the earth not of the Jews only For he reigneth over the heathen also He sits upon a Throne of Holiness rules by his Holy Word and Spirit making them Holy who were unholy 2. Yea and a willing people also For the Princes of the people are gathered together even the people of the God of Abraham 4. In protecting his Church whether by himself Vers 9 or by the Princes he raiseth up for her defence For the shields of the earth belong unto God Princes and Prelates are shields of the Church but God is the chief He is greatly exalted The Eucharistical Prayer collected out of the forty seventh Psalm O Lord God who hast exalted thy Son Iesus Christ with great Triumph into the Kingdom of heaven we beséech thée leave us not comfortless but send to us thy Holy Spirit to comfort us and exalt us to the same place whither our Saviour is gone before And thou O blessed Saviour Vers. 5 who when thou hadst finished our Redemption on earth didst ascend to the beaven in great glory and Majesty Vers. 2 and satest down on the right-hand of thy Father and art become the Lord the most high terrible and a great King over all the earth receive the petitions of thy humble Servants present them at the Throne of Grace and make intercession for us Subdue the people by the power of thy Spirit Vers. 3 and bring the Nations under thy féet by the sharp edge of thy Word Cause those who are yet strangers and aliens from thy worship to fall low before thée and perswade all those who are yet afar off to come néer and to embrace thy Gospel and the truth and equity of thy Law The time was Vers. 4 when in Judah only God was known and thy Name was great in Israel it was the excellency of Jacob which thou didst love but now thou hast merited Vers. 7 and art ordained to be the King of all the earth since therefore thou hast chosen these also for thine inheritance Vers. 4 reign thou even over the Heathen Vers. 8 and subduing their iniquities sit upon thy Throne of Holiness among them O happy day Vers. 9 when not the meanest and lowest but the greatest and the noblest when the Princes of the people shall be gathered together and be united to the people of the God of Abraham being all worshippers of the same God professors of one and the same Faith and partakers of one and the same mercy For then should the name of our God who is truly the shield and defence of his people be greatly exalted in the earth The praises of our God should then be in our mouths Vers. 7 and with-wisdom and understanding should we sing our Psalms heart and hand affections and work being every way agréeable to our Psalmodie O Lord infinite and wonderful are thy wayes and works toward the children of men but the work of Redemption by the blood of thy dear Son farre excéeds them all For this love for this mercy O work upon our hearts to sing praises to thy honour our tongues to sing praises to thy glory our lips to shout with the voice of melody O all ye Saints of his Vers. 1 Clap your hands for joy shout for triumph sing praises to God Vers. 5 sing praises sing praises to our King sing praises Let hands and tongue and works and words be ready prest to sing praises to the God of Jacob. Amen PSAL. XLVIII 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 UNder the Type Jerusalem is set down the happiness of the Church which is alwayes protected by Gods favour Three parts there are of this Psalm 1. The excellencies and priviledges of the City of God from vers 1. to 4. 2. A Narration of a miraculous deliverance she obtain'd and upon it the Terrour that fell on her enemies from vers 4. to 8. 3. An Exhortation to consider it and praise God from vers 8. to 15. 1. The first part He begins with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised Great in himself Vers. 1 and greatly to be praised for all things in all