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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50049	Annotations on five poetical books of the Old Testament (viz.) Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles / by Edward Leigh ...	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1657 (1657)	Wing L985; ESTC R12549	255,543	192

saluti prospexerit desideriis illius sanctis satisfecit PSAL. VII CUsh the Benjamite Cush that is an AEthiopian or Blackmoor Saul so called for his black and ill conditions otherwise he was an Israilite of the Tribe of Benjamin Because saith R. David Kimchi in loc he carried himself as an AEthiopian as the AEthiopian doth not change his skin so Saul did not change his hatred toward David Vers. 7. So shall the Congregation of the people compass thee about It is an allusion unto the manner of the peoples compassing the Mount of God and the Tabernacle in the wilderness Vers. 12. If he turn not he will whet his Sword he hath bent his Bow and made it ready There is mention made of two sorts of weapons which in the battels of old time did the greatest hurt to the enemy the Sword and the Bow the Sword when he was at hand the Bow when he was far off PSAL. VIII Verse 2. OUt of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength Not only the providence of God in new-born babes framing them in the belly providing nourishment for them when they are born and making them to suck the brests but also the giving of saving knowledge to some of them in their tender years is able to refute all Atheists and profane despisers of the glory of the Lord. Dickson Some apply it to the preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles and Ministers of the Gospel Strengthen their mouths in confession Luke 21. 25. In prayers See Revel 11. 5. 6. The cry of a childe moves the bowels of a father The enemy All imployed by the Devil And the avenger The Devil principally he sins properly out of revenge to God Vers. 3. The work of thy fingers Not the works of his hands but of his fingers to note his singular industry his exquisite workmanship and art and also his special love and care over these works Vers. 4. What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the son of man that thou visitest him He speaks of Christ as Mediator See Heb. 2. 5. 〈◊〉 Not as the day-spring from on high doth the earth Luke 1. 78. but as if a great Prince should go into an Hospital to look on a loathsome diseased creature Vers. 5. For thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels and hast crowned him with glory and honour It is spoken of Christ as the Apostle expounds it Heb. 2. 6 7. Who was a little time lower than the Angels so it may well be rendred in respect of his sufferings and death See Junius Or he was made a little lower than the Angels in taking upon him our Nature The Angelical Nature being higher than the Humane as considered in it self Vers. 6. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands It is not spoken of Christ as God so he had a natural Kingdom but this is by donation Christ as Mediator PSAL. IX Verse 10. ANd they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee Know thy name spiritually experimentally especially his Goodness Power Faithfulness and Wisdom See Isa. 30. 18. Vers. 13. Liftest me up from the gates of death Natural Spiritual and Eternal Death Vers. 16. The wicked is suared in the work of his own hands Higgaion Selah Goliah was killed with his own Sword R. David Kimchi Christs Justice hath two acclamatory Notes Higgaion Selah the like is not found in all the Scripture as worthy both of present admiration and perpetual Meditation Selah is used ninety two times in Scripture as these joyned here signifie extraordinary praise joy meditation Vers. 20 Put them in fear O Lord that the Nations may know themselves to be but men That is weak mortal miserable in Hebrew Enoch given to every man for his dolefull state and mortality Psal. 8. 5. PSAL. X. Verse 1. THis Psalm is in the Greek version a continuance and part of the former ninth Whereupon the account of the Psalms following doth in the Greek books and such as follow them differ from the Hebrew the 11th Psalm being reckoned for the 10th the 12th for the 11th and so forward Yet to make up the number of 150 Psalms they divide the 147 into two Likewise the 114th and 115th Psalms they make one and the 116th they part in two Ainsw Vers. 1. Why standest thou afar off O Lord Heb. Why wilt thou stand This form of expostulation implieth an earnest prayer Lord stand not far off Why hidest thou thy self Heb. Why wilt thou hide viz. thine eyes as Isa. 1. 15. Vers. 3. And blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorreth He thinks him not blessed because he doth covet but because he hath the things he longs for Or it may be read and so is by Ainsworth The covetous blesseth himself he abhorreth the Lord so in the Margent sometimes expresly he sets his heart against God ever interpretatively Vers. 4. God is not in all his thoughts Or all his thoughts are there is no God Nullum esse Deum hae sunt omnes cogitationes ejus Jun. The Text will bear both He studieth Atheism as Psal. 14. 1. Vers. 5. As for all his enemies he puffeth at them The gesture of one contemning and refusing a thing with pride as Mal. 1. 13. Vers. 11. He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten Oblivio reminiscentia sunt rerum praeteritarum All things are present with God Vers. 14. The poor committeth himself to thee That is his wayes and soul. Vers. 17. Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble That is of humbled persons and them which are in distress either of body or minde Thou wilt prepare their heart thou wilt cause thine ear to hear That is he prepares our hearts to put up our desires and layes a command upon his own ear to hear PSAL. XI Verse 1. FLee as a Bird to your Mountain This noteth his danger who was hunted as a Partrich on the mountains 1 Sam. 26. 20. and his fear as in Isa. 16. 2. Vers. 3. If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do That is Laws are nothing worth See Psal. 82. 5. Gr●tius Vers. 5. His soul hateth That is Gods soul doth hate see Levit. 26. 11. When the Hebrews would express a thing highly they say my soul Saw ye him whom my soul loveth Cant. 6. My soul rejoyceth in God my Saviour said the blessed Virgin Luk. 1. Vers. 6. Upon the wicked That is the hypocrite He shall rain snares Some expound it of ensnaring the conscience Fire and brimstone Such was the wrath that fell on Sodom and the Cities by it Gen. 19. 24. and figureth the vengeance of eternal fire Vers. 7. For the righteous Lord loveth righteousuess Loveth vehemently righteousnesses Heb. Inward and outward righteousness all manner of righteousness in all the actings that is righteous persons the Abstract for the Concrete and in the plural