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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01235	The priuiledges of the vpright in heart Expressed in brief meditations upon the 84 Psalme: and more particularly vpon the 11 verse thereof. Studied for the vse of the right worshipfull Company of Drapers London By W.F.	Freake, William.	1639 (1639)	STC 11347.5; ESTC S120859	14,597	40

terram universam illuminat saith Musculus upon this place The Sun at his arising pulleth of that sad mantle of darknesse wherwith his absence had clad the Heavens dispelleth the sable clouds of night restoring light and comfort to the whole earth A passage which is excellently described by the Psalmist Psal 19.4 where hee speaks of the tabernacle of the Sunne set in Heaven out of which hee commeth as a Bridegroom out of his chamber A most cleare demonstration of the glorious worke of God in the heart of a Christian so farre as our weake capacities can conceive Qui gratia suae aspectu idem est piorum mentibus quod Sol virtute suâ universo terrarum orbi saith the same Expositor who communicateth not only as much comfort to the souls of the godly by the illumination of his grace but much more then the Sunne doth to the World by the influence of his beames Hence is it that our blessed Lord who by Saint Paul is termed the expresse image of the Father 2 Cor. 4 4. is by Saint Iohn stiled the true light that lighteth every man that commeth into the world Iohn 1.9 And it is a thing wherof you cannot be ignorant that the Sun alone with the brightenesse of his beames though he be but one quite expelleth the darknesse of the night which the Moon and all the Stars are not able to doe without him even so our blessed Lord that perfect Sonne of righteousnesse as the Prophet stiles him Mal. 4.2 by the rayes of his divine light not onely dispels those mists of ignorance wherin all men naturally are inveloped but giveth the true knowledge of that way to salvation which all Philosophy and humane learning could never lead a man unto because indeed as Saint Paul most truly delivers it Colos 2.3 in him alone are bidden all the treasures of true wisdome and heavenly knowledge Again as in our Horizon when the Sunne in our night-time is subterraneous all that light which the Moone or Stars have is borrowed by reflexion from the Sun So in all opinions and doctrines that tend towards Religion if there be any light at all it is by reflex from this Sun of the World our blessed Lord Christ Iesus Most significantly therefore is our God stiled our Sunne and our blessed Lord the Sonne of God that life which is the light of men John 1.4 And most punctually true is that word of our Saviour Iohn 3.20 21. that every one that doth evill hateth this light neither commeth to it lest his deeds should be discovered But he that doth truth commeth to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Vse That we may be perswaded as our blessed Lord hath admonished while wee have this light to believe in this light that we may be the children of light Iohn 12.36 and while we have this light to walk in this light lest darknesse come upon us ibid. v. 35. As never forgetting who it was that said of himselfe what could never be truly said of any but himself Iohn 8.12 Ego sum lux mundi I am that light of the World he that followeth mee shall not walke in darknesse but shall have the light of life So that now you have heard how our God is a Sun now mark how he is a shield also For our God is a Sun and a shield 10. The shield is a piece of defensive Armes appropriated to fighting men And because Christians in the Church Militant have need of protection against the manifold assaults of spirituall enemies the Lord GOD who is a defender of all those that fight his battails is elegantly by the Holy Ghost stiled the shield of his people that put their trust in him David in his greatest extremity at Ziklag when his people upon the spoile therof by the Amalekites spoke of stoning him and the text saith he was greatly distressed yet comforted himselfe in the Lord his God 1 Sam. 306. And trusting to his protection as to his shield and buckler consulted him by Abiathar the Priest and receiving a gracious answer following the directions of the Oracle hee recovered all again as you may reade in the sequell of that Chapter The Lord hereby giving just cause unto David thus to sing in that his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or triumphant song when God had delivered him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hands of Saul 2 Sam. 22.1 at verse 35. Dedisti mihi clypeum salutis tuae Thou hast given mee the shield of thy salvation as Saint Ierome reads it Thus was hee Davids shield A patterne for religious Princes Moses and Aaron in the like distresse when the whole Congregation cryed out to stone them were safe under the protection of this shield and when all humane help failed were rescued by the appearing of the glory of the Lord at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before all the children of Israel Numb 14.10 Thus was the Lord God a shield to Moses and Aaron A patterne for pious Governours in Church or State Abraham in all his peregrinations from Vr of the Caldees unto and in the land of Canaan was safe under this shield even as God had promised saying Gen. 15.1 Fear not Abraham I am thy shield A president for all the faithfull the children of Abrahams saith whether Iews or Gentiles in what distresse soever that can affront them in this vale of tears To shew them that if they trust in the Lords protection in their wayes of obedience they may sing with the Church even when the world saith of them there is no helpe for them But thou ô Lord art my shield thou art my glory and the lifter up of my head Psal 3.2 3. For thou Lord will blesse the righteous and with favour wilt thou compasse him as with a shield Psal 5.12 For why Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him upon them that hope in his mercy Psal 33.18 To deliver their souls from death and to keepe them alive in famine ibid. verse 19. upon which assurance Gods children may sing joyfully as ibid. verse 20. Our soule wayteth for the Lord he is our helpe and our shield Thus have you heard how the Lord is a shield also And yet this is not all the instruction that these words afford us II. For even in this conjunction of the Sunne and Shield is a marvellous comfort laid up for true believers if it be rightly considered Deus Sol illuminationis Deus Clypeus protectionis saith Musculus upon this Text God is the Sun of his Church to enlighten the same with saving knowledge that his people may understand the way wherin hee would have them to walke and to direct all their goings to make good that of the Psalmist Psal 37.23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and hee delighteth in his wayes This Sun alone doth light us into the way wherin

wherof was Ierusalems unhappinesse Luke 19 44. And knowing the same wee may labour to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance before our Candlesticke be removed out of its place But I insist no longer upon this first observation I am yet but in the way to our text 2. Whereas in the fourth Verse of this Psalme David describeth the blessednesse of such as dwell in the house of God because they have daily opportunity to prayse him as those Priests and Levits who by his appointment were to minister before the Lord in his Tabernacle I Chron. 16.4 5 6. concerning whom in particular the Hebrew Rabbins understand these words to be spoken It may serve to shew us the duty and dignity of the Ministers of Gods word what their chiefe care should be even to attend upon God in the duties of their holy Function for the glorifying of his Name by the winning of soules what their dignity is in that they are permitted to frequent Gods house day by day and there to sing prayses unto his holy Name that by this double meditation they may be every day put in mind Hoc agere to doe that wherunto they are appointed without giving themselves liberty to follow the pleasures or profits of this bewitching World 3. Whereas it is said in the fifth Verse that the man is blessed whose strength is in the Lord and in whose heart are his ways which the Hebrew Rabbins understand to be spoken of the people of Israel in generall who placed the strength of their confidence in the protection of the God of Israel and set their mindes upon those ways which from each quarter of their Land tended towards the place where the tabernacle was pitched Wee may learne where the confidence of a Christian heart should be placed namely in the Lord his God whom the Psalmist so confidently stileth his rocke his fortresse his deliverer his God his strength in whom hee would trust his buckler the horn of his salvation and his high tower Psal 18.2 4. As also whereas it is said Blessed is the man whose strength is in the Lord and in whose heart are his ways It may serve to teach us that if we expect protectiō from God as our strength we must be mindfull to keep our selves in the ways of God and to have them still in our heart That precious promise which God maketh of preservation by the Ministery of his holy Angels is to those onely that minde the ways of God Psal 91.11 Mandabit Angelis c. He shall give his Angels charge over thee to keepe thee in all thy ways not in thy by-ways which are of thine own chusing but in thy right wayes as of Gods appointing And this is the reason as most of the Fathers conceive why the Devill when he tempted our blessed Lord with this Scripture Math. 4.6 left out that clause in viis tuis 5. In which ways albeit they lye through the valley of Baca the vale of teares yet they that minde the way to Gods Tabernacle even therin shall finde many sweet refreshments Verse 6.7 That they faint not thorough thirst they shall have wels of water and the rain shall cover their pooles wels of water but of their own digging They must use all good means afforded unto them and then the Lord from Heaven shal rain upon them he shall comfort them with the dew of his grace hee shall powre upon them the continuall dew of his blessings Wherwith being supplyed in their journey they shall walk from strength to strength till every one appeare before God in Sion Verse 7. Et hic quoque succurrie gratia diuina saith Musculus on this place Herein the grace of God prevents and assists them so abundantly strengthening those that minde this way aright that no difficulty in passage no violence of opposition can any way take them off but doth rather inflame the heate of their courage making them constant unto the end and their abilities both of knowledge and practice growing by the daily use they have therof so that they walke from strength to strength untill they appear before God in Sion 6. Great cause therfore have we every one of us to pray with the Psalmist upon these grounds of Meditation as Verse 8 9. Oh Lord God of hosts heare my prayer give eare ô God of Iacob Behold ô Lord our shield and look upon the face of thine anointed Oh look upon the meritorious intercession of thine anointed thy Christ our Redeemer and for his sake give us strength and grace to finish our course in thy ways that we may appeare before thee in Sion 7. And that for these two Reasons which our Psalmist addeth First Because a day in thy Courts is better then a thousand elswhere and I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God to have imployment there in the meanest office that may entitle me Gods servant upon grounds of just relation then to dwell at freedome and libertie in all height of pleasures in the tents of wickednesse as ye have it in the words next before my text That is the first Reason The second Reason is in the words of my text wherunto the way hath brought us in a direct course now at the last upon which by Gods blessing wee will be bold now to enter having the doore orderly opened For the Lord God is a Sun and a shield c. And here according to the division of this Verse I begin with the subjectum the partie spoken of which is Dominus Deus the Lord God 8. The great Lord Paramount of Heaven and earth by right of Creation the God of Iacob as hee is stiled Verse 8 the GOD of his Elect and chosen people Israel the God of all true believers the children of Abrahams faith of what Nation soever that the Sun shineth upon This is he for whose Tabernacle David so longed before whom all the travailing Israelites were carnest to present themselves at the end of their journey as their God in whose presence is the fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore Psal 16. last verse And well might they long to appear before such a God in Sion in Sion the beauty of the whole earth as he speaks elswhere Psal 48.2 in Sion where God appeareth in perfect beauty Psal 50.2 where was that beauty of holinesse mentioned 2 Chron. 20.21 such a beauty as could not be so sufficiently conceived nor expressed in any termes sutable to our capacity as by this Metaphor of the Sun in his strength and therefore hee saith Dominus Deus est Sol. 9 Obser A figurative speech a Metaphor as Rhetoricians call it but a most significant one if rightly understood fully expressing that what the Sun the publike eye of Heaven is to the World the same is God to the soule of every one that longeth after him with Davids affection Sol ortu suo coeli tristitiam discutit noctis tenebras fugat