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B00700	A godly and fruitful exposition on the twenty five psalme, the second of the penteniials [sic]. Seruing especially for the direction and comfort of all persons, who are either troubled in minde, diseased in bodie, or persecuted by the wicked. / by A. Symson, pastor of the church at Dalkeith in Scotland.	Simson, Archibald, 1564-1628.	1622 (1622)	STC 22565.5; ESTC S107781	90,612	198

inuisible walles of his protection so he hath outward defences to maintaine his Church he is master of it yea master builder and sendeth forth seruants whom he strengtheneth for the building of his worke I see many pulling downe the walles yea with Edom in the destroying of Ierusalem crying sacke sacke Psal 137.7 raze raze vp the foundation Few with ●●chemiah mourning for the ruines of Gods house in all parts and helping to restore them Let vs therefore goe to the God of Dauid who albeit he was king of the towne and began to build the citie and walles and laid materials to the Temple yet he knew that the labourers wrought in vaine vnlesse the Lord of heauen builded the citie Lord repaire the decaies of thy Church for thy Christs sake For thy good pleasure He findeth the ground of all that perfection to be in God himselfe and his good fauour and not in men or their merits for as the whole building of the Church is the onely worke of God so is the reparation of her ruines onely belonging to himselfe It belongeth to God to build the Church Men might haue builded with stone and bricke the exterio● walles but it is proper to God to build his spirituall Church And this is a token that God hath pleasure in his Church when he is building it sending good builders materialls of spirituall graces fortifiers as Cyrus and Darius good Princes Nehemiah good gouernours Esdra and good Priests And our obedient and carefull people who do take the sword in one hand and the instrument of building in the other that the Lords Ierusalem may be edified But when his fauour is departed then in his wrath he giueth Princes Gouernours Nobles Preachers and people who striue either to hinder the building or to pull downe the building to build vp Iericho and cast downe Ierusalem Dauid he craueth that God may be fauorable according to his good pleasure for the building of the Church dependeth vpon Gods good will and pleasure who when he liketh his Church can aduance her and when he is displeased with her cast her downe It appeareth euidently now that God is angrie with his Church in all parts of Christendome when he is pulling downe and not raising vp his Church we haue prouoked his wrath against vs and his soule abhorreth our hipocriticall profession and our wicked conuersation Verse 19. Then shalt thou accept the sacrifices of righteousnesse euen the burnt offering and oblation then shall they offer calues vpon thine altar THis is the promise of thankefulnesse to God wherein is set downe a correspondence or restipulation betwixt the people who shall offer sacrifices and God who will accept them And Gods seruice then goeth well when we offer willingly and God accepteth gladly Then Marke the time If our sinnes be forgiuen vs God will heare our praiers Gen. 4.5 when God hath beene fauorable to his Church in forgiuing her sinnes then he will accept the offerings For pray what ye please and distribute to the poore if God doe not like of it all is in vaine Caine offered sacrifices but the Lord accepted them not because he hated his cruell heart Abel offered i● faith and was accepted But how shall ye know if your offerings be acceptable to God seeing there is no fire to fall downe from heauen as that which burnt vp Elias sacrifice ● Ki 18.34 Yee shall know that albeit an elementarie or materiall fire falleth not downe yet the fire of the Spirit falleth on our hearts Nota. the fire burning vp the drosse of our corruptions by vnfained repentance warmeing our hearts with the loue of God kindling our hearts with a zeale of Gods glorie This is the fire which will fall downe from heauen vpon our soules which sensiblie we feele if the Lord heare our prayers The sacrifices of righteousnesse Some expound these offerings to be such as agree to his will I reuerence their iudgement but I see not how that exposition can agree with the text But it may be expounded of that righteousnesse which we ought to doe to our neighbours as we offer a sacrifice of a contrite heart the calues of our lippes by praises and these are the sacrifices of righteousnesse by our hands so that heart tongue hand should be all offered to God for God liketh well of righteous dealing● 〈◊〉 our hand be not defiled with thirst co●●ousnesse oppression which if we sacrifice to Sathan by sinne let vs not lift to God by prayer but lift vp pure hands wash our hands in innocencie and then compasse Gods altar It would seem to be some differenc Obiect wher God said he would haue none of their sacrifices and now they promise sacrifices Indeed if the sacrifices be onely externall Solu what accounteth God of them if they want mercie and righteousnesse for he will haue mercie and not sacrifice Therefore let externall and internall worship be conioyned and then God will like best of it but being seperated from spirituall offerings it is abominable and a burden to the Lord. Which be the sacrifices of righteousnes The alter Iesus Christ by whom we must offer our prayers to the Father The sacrifices of righteousnesse are those which be lawfull and are commanded by God They shall offer calues vpon thine altar The calues are the calues of the lippes the alter Iesus Christ who was both represented by the brasen altar and by the golden ●●lter For no sacrifice or prayer could euer ●●e acceptable to God vnlesse it were offered vpon Iesus Christ for he is sacrificium sacerdes et altare Augustine saith he is the Priest the Altar and the Sacrifice the offerer the thing offered and the altar vpon which it is offered 〈◊〉 All the mosaicall altars are abrogated because the sacrifice is made The heathnish altars haue no place The popish altars are abominable after the apish imitation of the Iewish altars they would offer that incrementum sacrificium missa without any warrand of Gods word It is enough for vs to offer not Christ to the Father but our prayers by Christ to the Father who will smell a sweet sauour of rest of all our peticions and thankes which are presented vpon Christ and for thirst of him Lord keep vs from the altar of Damascus and let vs offer all our offences vpon Iesus Christ with whom we shall be very heartily welcome to God Amen

learning but doe neuer attaine to the power of godlinesse and his couenant to giue them vnderstanding His couenant is specially mentioned Doct. because the Iewes brag of the couenant made to Abraham their Father Gods couenant belongeth to such as feare him Iohn 8.33 But here he declareth to them that they haue no title to the couenant except they feare God The Iewes bragged that they were descended of Abraham but Christ sends them to their father the deuill because they follow his manners and are murtherers Therefore there is no part in the couenant to those who haue not the true feare of God VERSE 15. Mine eyes are euer towards the Lord for who will bring my feet out of the net NOw he doth apply the benefits of God which generally were propounded to the Church to himselfe as he began the Psalme so he ends it with a prayer for his deliuery from his enemies In this Verse hee perswades himselfe by faith that God will set him free for as saith the Text his eyes are euer towards the Lord that is he depended on God as the eye of the handmayd is towards her mistresse This he testifieth when he saith Psal 123. Psal 121. And I lift vp mine eyes to the mountaines my helpe commeth from thee O Lord for thou wilt deliuer me who trusts in thee Note Men may looke for helpe at the hands of men but in vaine But God will not frustrate the expectation of his owne which should make vs not to turne our eyes from him seeking helpe from Aegvpt Wee cannot at one time looke vp to heauen downe to hell or the earth no more put our confidence in God and man Next ye see that if we desire to get deliuery we must in al our actions set him before our eies direct all our actions to glorifie God and edifie his Church Psal 16.8 I haue set the Lord alwayes before my face for he is at my right hand therefore I shall not slide Will God defend an vnrighteous man who aimeth not at Gods glory but his owne designes Note If thou haue him before thine eies then will he stand at thy right hand to maintaine thee He will bring my feet out of the net Comparison He compareth his estate to a bird insnared in the fowlers net for his enemies were fowlers their engins were nets himselfe was the poore bird circumnened The Churches enemies vsing subtilties to intrap her The Church hath many enemies but none are so crafty as these fowlers fraud and craft is a marke of Gods enemies they imitate their father the deuill who is a wily Serpent and more subtile then any beast of the field Gen. 3.1 Let Christians haue their conuersation in heauen God will breake the snare Thirdly let Christians be birds that as they haue their chiefe abode in the ayre so we may haue our conuersation in heauen as they fill the aire with their sounds so let vs praise God Fourthly Gods children may be ensnared but God will breake their nets and deliuer them as Paul Silas and Peter out of prison Acts 16.26 for that which seemes impossible to men is possible with God Psal 124. Simil. Man is as the bird escaped out of the snare of the fowler for as the bird compassed cannot deliuer it selfe no more can man escape their attempts by his owne strength but onely by Gods power VERSE 16. Turne thy face vnto mé and haue mercy vpon me for I am desolate and poore HE thinkes in aduersity that God turnes away his face Doct. whose presence to a creature is as the turning of the Sun vnto the earth Aduersity makes mē feare Gods absence He craueth mercy oftentimes in this Psalm acknowledging that to be the fountaine from which all blessings flow to him Doct. this argument is taken from God himselfe Gods mercy the fountaine of all blessings The next argument from his misery For I am desolate and poore This is the obiect of Gods mercy Doct. vpon vvhich it must worke as the vvounded Iew was an obiect of the Samaritans mercy Misery the obiect of Gods mercie How would Gods mercy be knowne if man had no misery How would the Physitians skill be tried if not by the patients diseases Luk. 10.33 How would the liberality of Princes their Iustice be notified Simil. but by the pouerty of their subiects and their distresses VERSE 17. The sorrowes of mine heart are enlarged draw me out of my troubles THe sorrowes of mine heart are enlarged Doct. God hath many meanes to humble the sonnes of men God multiplieses sorrowes because wee multiply sinnes and namely he turnes their ioy of sinne into sorrow the right sorrow whereof the Lord send vs. God multiplies sorrowes because we multiply sins Dauid found a cause of sorrew in euery thing he gat from God for his brethren enuied him 1 Sam. 17.28 and 18.9 2 Sam. 6.20 and 15.31 his father in law Saul persecuted him his vvife mocked him his familiars and companions deceined him his children pursued him the Ziphims and the Lords of Keilah betrayed him 1 Sam. 23.12 and 26. 1. and 29.4 the Philistims reiected him The ioies which God propineth vs with are as so many roses but in the bottome of them are enclosed as many thorner to pricke vs Simil. As Paul was pricked with the messenger of Satan 2 Cor. 12.7 lest he should haue beene exalted through the great reuelations So if we found not some discomfort in euery creature we should be bewitched with the delight thereof that we could not settle our affection on God And therefore God peppers euery pleasure and giues vs some soure sauce thereto Exod. 12.8 as he gaue soure hearbs to be eaten with the Paschal Lambe Draw me out of my troubles Doct. Many are the tribulations of the righteous If the pleasures of this world were not painfull we would too much delight in them but the Lord will deliuer him out of them all God vseth to draw them by which hee would testifie that it is a work of Gods power to deliuer the innocent as Dauid deliuered his fathers sheepe from the Lyon and the Beare and the vessels out of the hands of a strong man VERSE 18. Looke vpon mine afflictions Psal 34.11 1 Sam. 17.34 and my trauell and forgiue all my sinnes THere he acknowledgeth the root of al his troubles to be sin Doct. for which he craueth mercy at God The root of all our trouble is our owne sinne Ye may see here that sin toucheth him so neere the heart that he cannot find ease but in the remission thereof Sin is sweet in the mouth as honey Simil. but it is in the womb as grauell Pro. 20.17 There is no venome in the affliction but sinne so being quit of sin he esteemes nothing of the affliction Sin is