ouer all Godes VVho hath the discoueryes of the Earth in his hand and the Excellencyes of the Hilles are his VVho ovveth the Sea for hee made it the Dry-land vvhich his handes formed O come let vs bow down and prostrat our selues and kneel before the ETERNALL that hath made vs for hee is our GOD and wee the PEOPLE and SHEEP of his owne hand feeding To day when you hear his VOYCE harden not your hartes as in the PROVOCATION and as in the day of TEMPTATION in the Wildernes VVhich your Fathers tempted mee and tryed mee though they savv my VVORKES Forty yeers was I vexed with a Generation which I SAYED were a people that erred in their hart and knew not my WAYES Which in my Anger I swore should not enter into my REST. XCVI O SING yee to the ETERNALL a NEW SONG Sing yee to the ETERN all the Earth Sing yee to the ETERN and blesse his NAME and Preach his SALVATION from day to day Tell out his GLORY among the Hethen and his Wondeâ—full WORKS among all people Because the ETERN is great and very much to be PRAYSED and to be Reverenced aboue all GODS For all the GODS of the Nations are Idle-Idoles but the ETERN Made the Heavens Worship and Honour is in his Presence and in his Sanctuary STRENGTH MAJESTY Yeeld vnto the ETERNALL yee Nation-familyes yeeld vnto the ETERNALL GLORY and STRENGTH yeeld GLORY vnto the NAME of the ETERNALL Take vp Presents and com into his Courtes prostrate your selues to the ETERNALL in his stately Sanctuary and tremble at his Presence all the Earth TELL among the Heathen The ETERNALL RAIGNETH KING and the whole world shall bee established and not be moved that SENTENCETH Nations vprightely Let the Heavens reioyce and the Earth be glad the Sea his fullnes roare the field leap and all that is in it and the Trees of the wood TRIVMPH SING when hee cometh when hee cometh to IVDGE the Earth that with RIGHTEOVSNES Iudgeth the World and with his FAYTHFVLLNES the Nations thereof XCVII THE ETERNALL RAIGNETH KING let the Earth be glad and the multitude of Ilandes reioyce with a dark cloud round about him RIGHTEOVS IVDGEMENT beeing the Firmnes of his Throne fire shall goe before him and shall flame round about his foes His Lightenings lighten the world that the Earth trembleth to see it Mountaines melt like wax at PRESENCE of the ETERN before the LORD of the whole Earth The Heavens set foorth his IVSTICE that all Nations may see his GLORY let all them that serue Sculptures and glory in Idle-Idoles bee abashed bow your selues downe to him all yee GODS That Sion when shee heareth it may reioyce and all the Townes of Iudah bee glad because of the IVDGEMENT of the ETER Because thou ô ETERNALL art SOVERAIGNE over all the Kinges of the Earth and greatly surmountest overall GODS Yee that loue the ETERN that keepeth the lives of his GRATIOVS ones and delivereth them from the hand of the Wicked hate euill Ther is sown to the IVST and VPRIGHTE minded man a JOYFVLL LIGHT ô yee JVST ONES reioyce in the ETERNALL and celebrate his holly Remembrance XCVIII A PSALME O Sing yee to the ETERNALL a NEW SONG for that hee hath don Wonderfull Works Hee whom his RIGHT HAND and HOLLY ARME hath holpen The ETER that hath made his SALVATION knovvn and reuealed his RIGHTEOVSNES in the sight of the Heathen That hath remembred his Lov Kindenes and Faythfullnes to the House of Jsrael that all the Endes of the Earth haue seen the Salvation of our GOD. TRIVMPH to the ETERNALL breake out aloud and chaunt out Psalmes play vnto the ETERNALL on the Harp vpon the Harp with an inchaunting voice With the shrill soundes of the Trumpet Triumph to the KING ETERNALL Let the Sea and his fullnes roare and the WORLD and all that dwell therin make anoyse and Riuers clap their handes and Hilles also sound out Triumphes before the ETERNALL when hee cometh to Iudge the Earth That Iudgeth the world Iustly and the Nations vprightly XCIX THE ETERNALL RAIGNETH KING inhabiting the Cherubs Let the Nations and the Earth tremble and stoop The ETERNALL that is great in Sion that is highe aboue all Nations let them celebrate his great and reverend NAME which is holly Because thou the KING that loueth JVDGEMENT and STRENGTH confirmest Righte and dost Just JVDGMENT in Iacob Exalt yee the ETERNALL our GOD and prostrate your selues at his Holly foot-stoole Moses and Aaron and Samuel among his Priests and them that call vpon his NAME called vpon the ETERNALL and hee Answered them He spake vnto them in a CLOVDY STILE and they kept his TESTIMONYES and PRESCRIPTS which hee gaue them Thou O ETERNALL our GOD didst answer them and wast a GOD of Pardon to them beeing about to revenge their Heynous workes Exalt the ETERNALL our GOD and prostrate your selues at his holly Hill For the ETERNALL our GOD is holly C. A Psalm of Thanksgiuing SING yee Triumphes to the ETERNALL all the Earth serue the ETERNALL with REIOYCEING and com before him with a cheerfull SONET Knovv yee the ETERNALL is GOD and Hee that hath made vs and vvee are his his PEOPLE and Sheep of his PASTVRE Com vvithin his Gates vvith THANKS and into his Courtes vvith PRAYSE and SET FORTH and BLESSE his NAME because the LOV KINDENES of the ETERNALL is bountifull for euer and his FAYTHFVLLNES vntill all Generations CI. Of DAVID A Psalm I Will sing a Psalme of KINDENES and IVDGEMENT vnto thee ô ETERNALL that when thou shalt come vnto mee I may instruct in the perfect WAY and walk in the soundnes of my hart with in my House I will haue noe naughty thing in my sight to make declineings I hate and with mee it shall not steek A froward hart shall depart from mee and an euill hart I will not know Hee that accuseth his neighbour privily him will I put away who is of high lookes wyde of hart him I cannot abide Mine eyes are vpon the FAYTHFVLL of the Earth to dvvell vvith mee hee that vvalketh in a perfect VVaye he shall serue mee Hee that worketh deceipt shall not within my House and hee that
Satan and mischevous as the Divill as subdole as the Serpent and as holy as an Angel to deceiue the Angells yea yf it were possible the very Elect. Wherfor all his attributes are given in the contrary sens as naked for subdole covered as Gnarum which in this Psalme is remembred Mar and Rang bitter and bad from Merignim This is the fowler Ps. 91. And the schoolfellow Psal. 55. That fetcheth him off and hee shall never know who hurt him so all his wayes and words are bitter and distastâ—full and cut like a rasor and are deadly and mortall because they are fals and deceitfull and damnable Now because to live in fear of such a one is a terrible thing hee complaineth greatly of this terror of an Enimy and prayeth that hee may not live in fear of such a one but that God would preserve his life from such a fear which fear is expressed Ps. 55. It is dolorous and with pangs within one it is as cruell as death it self falling upon one inexorable crueltyes as of death a trembling fear that assailes him and sets upon him and befalls him and buffeteth him as it did Paul Hee is overcom with horror And this is the fear hee prayeth to bee freed of and the Enimy that hee would have terribly cut off by his own wayes and perish by his own traps That the just and plain meaning men that trust in God with great joy may admire and acknowledge his work and prais him Construction Samec to uphold Hee sheweth heer the privative therof and the contrary by the effect of bad tonges that by slander backbiteing scandall overthrow men as a bad report and an ill name doth hange one This they doe with boldnes and assurance artificially and stoutly which is as a kinde of door emptines or opening as for Daleth the second letter The contrary heerunto is fear that hath no comfort or relying Both the letters make Sod a secret or counsel and shew all along so much by the termes and phrases hide snares and serch c. with the contrary So all is secret or pubilique fear or confidence susteining or overthrowing Exodus In the Law all Sacrifice must bee found and perfect and without blemish or any ill thing Lev. 22. Deut. 17.15 heer the most holy and precious service of the wicked is the maiming spotting and staining of all integrity syncerity and soundnes of upright and perfect men And by detraction and defamation to marr their reputation even by transcending and mounting up to their thoughtes their closenes and deep diveing into the conscience and minde of them And slaughter of the tong as Ier. 18. by way of privation a Sacrifice of wrongs or Burnt-offering of dayly consumming greeff molestation and vexation PSALM LXV BEcause God is the onely hearer of prayer hath been reconcileed and pacifyed concerning his flood and inundation of iniquity and trespasses as Psal. 32. which overcame him that all prais and vowes are due to him in Zion hee inviteeth all the world to set out the happines of that habitation the Church and of his Election and the comfortable substance that is had from thence for salvation against the fearfull justice of condemnation hee beeing the trust of all the world by his power the Law walking upon the seas and haveing them under his feet by his unknown steps and sayling through the Law Psal. 77.8.47 c. setleing kingdoms putting down the rageing and wicked nations floodes of iniquity and delighting them that fear him with sending his word among them the River of the Scriptures to water and enrich them to make them fuitfull Hee now prayeth God for the farther propagation of the Church under a form of husbandry That as hee looketh out of the Scriptures upon the earth and it prospereth so that hee would doo all good husbandry upon the ground to make it fit for receiving the seed of the word with mollyfying all hard and savage hartes and wayes of men and sending showers of grace into them Then that hee will bless the begetting and crown all the growth therof with goodnes that his wayes may make the word to flow plentifully in all ignorant countryes called the wildernes that they may bee as well sett as the rest and triumph as well as the rest together Ps. 67. Construction Samec to uphold or sustein The kindes of sustenance heer is forgivenes of sinns and satiety of grace out of the hous of God the trust and susteiner of all the world Who 's indument of strength and might holdeth fast up the hills and beateth down the seas c. by this privation The manner of susteining the erth is by his dayly and plentifull watering of it and provideing of Corn as for the dwellers in it and plantation So that Husbundry mainteynes all as Salomon saith He the other letter signifying behold is all for presence or absence in sight or out of sight or distant and overhealing and that of divers kindes as prayer and prays to God By chuseing and entertaining neerest unto him c. Endes and longinquities c. and make the farthest countryes meaâ—y Ps. 103. thou lookest c. on the earth c. That the erth may be covered with corne and cattell c. that a man can not see the ground reconcileing them and covering of sinns Love couereth a multitude of sinns so the Merceyseat and mans protection is sett over the Law Because the Iustice therof is so terrible Accordingly Seh both the letters of Nasah to lift up or take away or pardon Exodus Ier. 31. and Ps. 50. Lev. 7. you are told what sacrifice hee heer meaneth to wit thanks-offering and vowes for his gratious protection and susteining of him by his mercyfull goodnes out of his word Gods gentle audience forgiveing of sinns and provideing for food and raiment is a most mercy full thing and well deserveth the prais and devotion of all the world and therfor this audience and satisfaction was bidden proper in Zion the place of Gods habitation PSALM LXVI SEeing by fearfull and terrible meanes and by mighty and strange workes by the greatnes of his strength in this Law God hath preserved his Church and subdued his Enimyes and increased his worship trying his people by all manner of tentation troubles the vigilance of his word called his eyes tending them and saveing them to a place of refreshing and with life and rejoiceing in their soules that hee let not their feet bee mooved and overthrew their Enimyes lest they should vaunt over them hee willeth all the erth and all nations to prais their God and to set out his glorious Name for the same because hee himself is ready to pay his vowes in the hous of God haveing obteined the request that hee made in his distress Construction Samec to put upon or hold up by the term put so often used upon or under exalt or putting upon or lay upon or ride upon c. also
out his handy worke Day vpon day and night vpon night it vttereth speech and manifesteth knowledge and in all languages their tonge is vnderstood For their Rulles goe over all the erth and their wordes are heard in the farthest part of the worlde In them hath hee made a dwelling for the SVNN that riseth like a Bridegroome coming out of his Bride Chamber cheerfull like a strong man to runn a race The end of all the Hevens is his going out and his compasse towards the endes thereof that nothing can be hid from the heat thereof The LAW of the ETERNALL is most perfect and converteth the minde his Testimony is faithfull to advise the simple The Statutes of the ETERNALL are plain and cheere the hart The Commandement of the ETERNALL is pure and lighteneth the eyes the feare of the ETERNALL continueth euer cleare the Iudgements of the ETERNALL are true and Iust. They are better to mee then gold yea then much fine gold and sweeter then honny and the dropping of the honny combes Yea by them is thy Servant warned and for keeping of them I haue good reward There is no man that vnderstandeth all his owne faultes wherefoâ—e clense mee from my hidden ones and restrain thy Servant from proud presumptions that they doe not overcome mee That I may be perfect and cleere of much transgression and all my wordes and thoughts be in acceptation before thee ô ETERNALL my Creator and Redeemer XX. For the Cheeff A Psalme of David THE ETERNALL heare thee in thy destresse the CALLING vpon the God of Iacob fortifie thee and send the help from his Holy place and support from Sion and thinke vpon thy meat offerings and fatten thy burnt offerings surely and giue the thy hartes desire and fullfill thy minde That wee may sing out vpon thy salvation and in the NAME of our God put vp our coulours Now I know the Eternall saveeth his anointed by the vertuous salvation of his right hand and heareth him from the heavens of his Sanctuary Som set their mindes on chariots and som on horses but wee make allwayes mention of the NAME of our God the Eternall They haue crouched and are fallen but wee stand vp and are yet remaining The ETERNALL save the King and heare vs when wee call XXI For the Cheeff A Psalme of David O ETERNALL let the King reioyce in thy STRENGTH and be very glad for thy Salvation Thou hast given him what his heart could wish and denyed him nothing that his lips requested Surely Thou hast set before him many blessings and hast put a crowne of fine gold vpon his head and thou hast giuen him the life hee asked of thee long dayes everlasting and perpetuall Great is his glory by thy Salvation worship and honour thou hast layd vpon him because thou puttest vpon him blessings perpetually and makest him cheerfull before thee and seing the King trusteth in the ETERNALL by the Grace of the moste High hee shall not bee mooved Let thy hand finde out all thine Enimies and thy right hand them that hate thee Sett them as a firy oven at the time of thy presence that the ETERNALL in his anger may devour them and his fire consume them Destroy their fruit and let their seed fade away from among men for intending euill against thee and imagining mischeâ—ff beyond their might Set them as a butt and vpon thy string make ready against their facees Be thou exalted ô ETERNALL in thy STRENGTH that wee may sing out thy power and chaunt thy worthynes XXII For the Cheeff vpon Ajeleth Hashahar A Psalme of David MY God my mighty God why hast thou left mee and art farre from my Salvation considering my roaring My God I cry all day and thou answerest not and all night and haue no attendance and thou the Holy one that inhabitest all the PRAYSES of Israel In thee our Fathers trusted and thou reskuedst them to thee they cryed and were delivered in thee they trusted and were never abashed But I am as a worm and not a man the skorn of men and the basest of all the people every one that seeth mee mocketh mee and they lett passe with their lips wagging their heads Hee trusted in the ETERNALL let him reskew him let him deliver him because hee hath delight in him Because thou wast my creeping out of the belly and my trust vpon my mothers brest vpon thee was I cast from the bearing and thou hast been my MIGHTY God from my Mothers womb ô bee not thou farre from mee when my destresse is at hand and there is none to help mee Many mighty bulles of Bashan inviron mee about they com with open mouthes vpon mee like roaring and preying Lions My bones are fallen out of ioint my hart is like molten wax in the midle of my bowells and I am powered out like water my virtue is as dry as a sheard and my tong steeks to my iawes and thou puttest mee even in the dead dust For a company of malitious doggs are come about mee and like Lions teare mee hand and foot They stand looking on mee while I tell all my bones they divide my clothes among them and cast lotts for my garments but thou ô ETERNALL be not farre from mee make haste to help mee ô my MIGHTY-ONE Deliver my life from the sword and my solitary soul from the doggs save mee from the Lions denn and from the Vnicorns hornes receive mee I may declare thy Name to my Bretheren and in the midle of the congregation praise thee All yee that feare the ETERNALL praise yee him yee that are of Iacobs SEED glorifie him and all yee the SEED of Israel stand in aw of him For he doth not despise nor disdain the MISERY of the afflicted nor hideeth his face from him but heareth him when hee cryeth vnto him From thee shall bee my Praise in the great Congregation and I will pay my vows before them that feare him that the lowly ones may eat their fill they that seek him praise the ETERNALL that your harts may be refreshed perpetually Let all the endes of the erth haue minde to com to the ETERNALL and all families of the Hethen worship before thee For all KINGDOM is the ETERNALLS hee rulleth the Nations Let all the ashes of the erth worship and eat and all that are going to dust and they whose liues haue no
speaketh falshoods shall not bee established in my sight I will soon dissolve all WICKED ones of the earth wheÌ„ I shall cut off from the Citty of the ETERNALL all Workers of Greeff CII A Prayer of the Poore when hee fainted powered out his Complaint before the ETERNALL O ETERNALL hear my PRAYER and let my SHOVTING come vnto thee Hide not thy FACE from mee when I am in Distresse turne thine eare vnto mee and heare mee quickly when I CALL Because my dayes are consumed in smoke and my bones on fire like a brand my hart is strooken and withered like an Herb that I forget the eating of my meat By my loud sighing my bones steâ—k vnto my skinn I am like an OWLE of the Wildernes and a skrich OWLE of Waste place-es I am like a folitary bird watching vpon the House top All the day doe mine ENIMYES revile mee and my DEFAMERS coniure against mee That I eat Ashes like bread and mingle my drinke with Teares because of thy fomeing Indignaton for thou hast cast mee away My dayes are like a declineing shadow and I am withered like an herb and thou ô ETERNALL remainest for ever and thy REMEMBRANCE for all Generations ô vp and haue MERCY vpon Sion for the SETTIME is come to haue COMPASSION on it because thy Servantes like the stones thereof and hold the dust thereof gratious That the Heathen all Kingdomes of the earth may fear thy GLORYOVS NAME ô ETERN ô let the ETER that hath built Sion appeere in his GLORY regard the PRAYER of the SHAKEEN not despise their Prayer That this may be written for an other generation and that the People to be borne hearafter may prayse the ETERN O let the ETERNALL look out of Heauen his holly HIGHTH and look down vpon the Earth To hear the Prisoners groneing and to let a brode the CONDEMNED to tell out the NAME of the ETERN in SION and thy PRAYSE in JERVSALEM vvhen the Nations and Kingdomes are gathered together to Serue the ETER Hee that beat dovvn my Strength in the vvay and shortned my dayes J SAY O my ALLMIGHTY GOD take mee not avvaye in the midst of my dayes and thy yeers dureing all Generations O thou that vvast before the Earth vvas founded and the Heauens the vvork of thy Handes vvhich shall perish and thou shallt remaine and they all shall goe old like a Garment and thou shallt shift them and they shall be put off like clothes and thy yeers are neuer consumeed let the Children of thy Seruantes abide still before thee their Seed bee established in thy PRESENCE CIII Of DAVID BLESSE the ETERNALL ô my SOVL all my FORCES blesse his holly NAME ô BLESSE the ETERN ô my SOVLE and forget not his GOOD DEEDS That Pardoneth and healeth all thy greevous Iniquity that Redeemeth thy life from the Pit Gardeth thee with KINDENES and MERCY that Supplyeth thy youth with the Goodnes of thine ORNAMENTS as an Egle reneweth her self The ETERNALL that doth Just IVDGEMENT to all the oppressed and maketh his Wayes knowen to Moses and his Excellent WORKES to the Children of Israel The ETERNALL is mercifull gratious and patient and of great KINDENES hee vvill not striue perpetually nor keep contention for euer hee hath not don vnto vs according to our sinnes nor bestovved vpon vs according to our Jniquityes but as the Heauens are highe aboue the Earth so excelleth his KINDENES ouer them that fear him As farr as the East is from the VVest so farr hath hee put avvay our Transgression from him As a Father hath Mercy vpon his Children so hath the ETERNALL mercy vpon them that fear him Because hee Knovveth our CREATION and is mindefull that vvee are but Dust. A Sorrovvfull Mans dayes are like grass as a flovver of the Feeld so hee florisheth but the VVinde passeth ouer it and neither hee nor his Place is any more to bee discerned But the LOVING KINDENES of the ETERNALL is from age to age vpon them that fear him and his RIGHTEOVSNES to their childrens children to them that keep his COVENANT remember to doe his VISITATIONS The ETERNALL that hath confirmed his THRONE in Heauen and his KINGDOME in all Domination Blesse the ETERNALL yee his ANGELS that haue mightey Power to doe his COMMANDEMENTS and to hearken vpon the VOYCE of his WORD Blesse the ETERNALL all his EXCERCISE-ERS and MINISTERS that doe his will Blesse the ETERNALL all his WORKES in all places of his Dominion BLESSE the ETERNALL ô my SOVLE CIV BLESSE the ETERNALL ô my SOVL ô ETERN my GOD thou art exceeding great and CLOTHED with REVEREND MAIESTY Putting on the LIGHTE as a Garment and spreading the HEAVENS as a Couertain That maketh his CHAMBER FLOORES vpon the vvaters and his RIDEING vpon the Cloudes and goeth vpon the VVINGES of the vvinde making the VVINDES his MESSENGERS and Flameing fire his MJNISTERS That founded the Earth vpon her stayes that it can not be mooued vvorld vvithout end VVHOM the Deep couereth like a Garment and the VVaters that did stand aboue the Hilles but at the chideing VOJCE of thy THVNDER they make haste to flye the Hilles ascending and the Beaches descending to the Place vvhich thou hast founded for them and hast set a bound that they shall not passe nor return again to couer the Earth That sendeth the Springs into the Brookes running betvveen the Hilles that vvater all the beasts of the feeld the vvilde beasts breake their thirst by vvhich the birdes of Heauen haue their dvvelling and charm out of the thick boughes That from his CHAMBER FLOORES vvatereth the Hilles that vvith the fruit of thy VVORKES the Earth may be satisfied That make-eth grasse to spring for bease and herbes for the seruice of Men that hee may bring foorth bread out of the Earth vvine to cheer a Sorrovvfull-mans hart to make a gladsom Countenance vvith oyle and bread to sustein a sorrovvfull-mans hart that they may bee satisfied vvith the Ceders of Libanon the Trees of the ETERNALL vvhich hee hath planted VVher the birdes doe make their nestes and the Firr Trees are the House of the Stork the highe Hilles are for the Roe-deer and Rockes a succour for the Cunnys Hee made the Moon for Seasons the Sunn to knovv his going dovvn thou puttest foorth Darknes and it is Night VVherin
the kingdom of heaven for the righteousnes and peace and salvation therof For this hee sheweth all kinde of of rejoycieing approoving therof amendment of life and a welcom singing leaping daunceing vaunting of all creatures and boasting and publishing therof which is the meat offering in his courtes at Ierusalem the joy of all the earth for the raigning of righteousnes and of the word And so commeth the kingdom of heaven to bee meat and drink by joy in the holy ghost and a heavenly delight in the power and glory therof the prevailing of the word in man and the lustre of a godlye life Mark the wordes and the insisting theron For Vav a crook or to take hold hee dealeth by the contrary to give and offer and bow unto and doo reverence and worship and tremble by the word yeeld c. Take up presents c. Mark the iteration Tsav of Tsivvah both the letters signify commend commaund or bequeath or send to the same purpose for the comming of the kingdom for which wee pray Math. 6. As all kingdom is with power and strength and commande Ps. 68. Numbers The wildernes heer is the wilde nations and marches of the Heathen wher the word of God and this Kingdom of a godly man is to bee preached and published all abroad to setle them in a sound doctrine that they may never bee moved more What a delight they have to entertain it what a rejoyceing and a welcom is at the comming of righteousnes Is. 52. when the nations bee conquered by it and the church increased mark the doubling of the word Hethen Nations familyes people c. what a God hee is in respect of their Idoles that is so to bee commended mark the charge bless him preach him tell out his glory c. And this for true and righte Iudgement the stay of the whole world Mark the doubling again PSALM XCVII THe kingdom of heaven of righteousnes and of God is not with outward observation but hee reigneth in darknes with a cloud about him in a dark and obscure stile of speaking that his Enimyes may not perceive him For right judgement and understanding of the minde is his Throne and the fire of the Law hee sets before him that burns round about his foes The flashes of his lightnings make all the earth afrayed and the hartes of great kingdomes the Mountains of the world to melt as wax at his presence and to becom soft and yeeld unto him And his Glory beeing like the heavens putteth down all idolatry and bragging worship and saveth his gratious ones from the wicked and to preserve their lives by forsakeing of ill by that subintellectuall light which is preached unto them And for these benefits may the Ilandes rejoyce and triumph keep holy Sabbath for the peace that preserveth their trade Mount Sion and Iudah for his Iudgements and advauncement of their God aboue all the Godly for their preservation and the just for light and understanding Construction Tsade for meat or food which is the delight which they have in the Kingdom of God and raigning of righteousnes by preaching and instruction of the Sabbath that all the earth may bee glad of And also for Gods excellent Iudgements of Zion Ps. 19. to rejoyce in Another part of the kingdom of God is his judgement and punishment sevenfold upon his foes when hee teacheth the Godly and his deer ones how to save their lives and this by fire work of his wrath out of the Law before him according to the letter Zain for sevenfold Mark the doubling of both partes of the throne the one part is of justice and of light and the other of darknes and of firey judgement The buissines of rejoyceing is all over light to the righteous and judgement upon the wicked that the earth tremble at Mark all the repetitions and relative speeches for that Numbers The wildernes heer is Gods Enimyes opposed to his beloved and deer ones and the Idolaters of the Nations and Image-makeers they are the cheeff that bee daunted and abashed at his Glory inviteed to his worship for his excelling of all Gods for judgements beeing Lord of all the earth Mark the relation and repetition between light and darknes God and Idoles rejoyceing c. And this for the glory of the kingdom PSALM XCVIII WOnderfull strange workes of salvation hath the Everlasting wrought by the Dexterity of his holy ministry and his righteousnes in the Law called his right hand and holy Arm even in the sight of the heathen which hee fullfilled in carrying them through the sea and drawing them out of mighty waters as Ps. 18. beeing kinde and faithfull to Israel that all the world have taken notice of the salvation of their God Therfor now they are to sing a new song unto him And that with all solemnity and greatest triumph that can bee before their king with Iubeling and chaunting psalmes and sonets with hart and musicall voice with shrill soundes of trumpets that the sea and all that is in it the world and all the dwellers in it rivers and hills and all creatures wher ever men goe may thunder and sound out Echoes of Ioy and gladnes and rejoyce and keep holy day before him hee commeth to judge the earth that judgeth all justly divideing the word Construction Tsade for meat or food They are fed with the great joy of his salvation by revelations and cleer interpretations of his mysteryes and hid things of the word Act. 14. Ier. 15. At his comming and raigning with righteousnes Eph. 3. and a cleer judgement within them Wherto all the world ought to bee obedient they are made wise unto salvation and to judge right with in them selves His food of mercy and truth they live by Mark the repetition salvation wonderfull work and reveled made known remembred and see relatives Mark the doubling of all the words reacting his prais joy The two letters Tsach cleer or to cleer Is. 66. by loudnes shrillnes plainnes c. the letter Cheth for fear is spareed becaus of the insisting upon rejoyceing the contrary Numbers The wildernes is implyed by the Heathen the endes of the earth and the confuseed world and her inhabitants that before the comming of the word unto them were without God in the world or any true judgement unto salvation to delight in Mark the repetition word judge justly c. They must needs therfor greatly rejoyce at the comming therof PSALM XCIX HOw bewtifull are the feet of him that preacheth good tideings and bringeth news of peace and salvation in his lips Now Righteousnes raigneth in the Ministers the Angels and Cheruâ—s woe bee to the Gentiles and nations of the Heathen And while God is so great in Zion and so farr exalted above them they were best to incline to his Kingdom and worship his Name that is so great so reverend and so holy For all the strength of a Kingdom is the lovâ—ing of Iudgement and prepareing
thy Lipes are povvred full of Grace therfore thy GOD hath blessed thee for euer Gird on thy Svvord vpon thy thigh like a valiant man gird on thy VVorship and thine Honour Ride thou vpon the VVord of Truth and meek Iustice increase thine honour thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things For by thy sharp Arrovvs in the hart of the Kings Enimyes the people shall fall dovvn vnder thee Evermore thy THRONE is GOD and the Septer of VPRIGHTNES is the Septer of thy KINGDOM Thou lovest RIGHTEOVSNES and hate-est WICKEDNES therfor thine own GOD hath annoynted thee with the Oyle of Ioy above thy fellows The edges of all thy Garments don with Myrrh and Aloes out of the Ivory closets of Minni doe delighte thee Kings Daughters are in thy dignityes and at thy right hand doth stand thy Bedfellow all in fine gold of Ophir O Daughter hearken well consider and turne thine Eare and forget thy Nation and thy Fathers House the King shall be in Love with thy Bewty be thou Lowly to him for hee is thy Lord the rich men of Tyre shal intreat thee with Presents The Kings Daughter is moste Glorious vvithin vvith her clothes of golden Imbrodery of Needlevvork shall shee be brought to the King after her the virgines that be her companions shal be brought vnto thee vvith ioy Mirth shall they be brought flovving into the Kings Court. In steed of thy Fathers thou shalt haue sonnes to set Princees in all Countryes Therfore I will make thy Name a Memoriall in all Generations for the people to Publish confesse thee for evermore XLVI A Song for the Cheeff of the Sonnes of Corah vpon Alamoth GOD is our stronge RELYE ready Helpe in distresses Therfore wee fear not at the CHANGE of the erth At the mooveing of Mountaines into the midle of the Sea at the Rorering and boyling of the VVaters nor at the Shakeing of Mountaines vvith the Pride thereof Surely His holly chanells doe cheer the Citty of GOD and delighterh the Dwellings of the HIGHE GOD is in the middest of it it can not be stirred GOD will help it betimes before the morninge springs The Hethen raged and the Kingdomes weare in a commotion Hee vttered his VOICE and the Earth melted The warlike ET is with vs the GOD of Iacob is our RELEEF surely Com and behold the miraculous ACTS of the ETERN what Desolations hee hath made in the earth Ceasing tho wars vnto the end of the erth that Shivereth the bowes and cutteth the speares in peeces and burneth the chariots ìn the fire Hold your handes know that I am GOD and will be exalted in all Nations of the worlde The warlike ETERNALL is with vs the GOD of Iacob is our RELEEFF surely XLVII A Psalm for the Cheeff of the Sonnes of Corah ALL people clap your handes triumph vnto GOD with a loude voice for the ETERN is a dread SOVERAIGNE and a great KINGE over all the earth Hee hath subdued Diverse people vnder vs and Nations vnder our feet and chose vs our INHERITANCE the very Pride of Iacob surely GOD the ET is gon vp with the shrill sound of the Trumpet ô sing Psalmes to GOD ô sing Psalmes to our KING because GOD is KING of all the Earth sing a MASCIL Palme GOD SITTETH vpon his holly Throne and Raigneeth over the Heathen the Principall people are gathered together but because the DEFENSES of the earth are GODES The People of Abrahams GOD is much preferred XLVIII A Psalm-Song by the Sonnes of Corah GREAT is the ETERNALL in the CITTY of our GOD his Holly HILL very renowmed Mount Sion the Citty of the great KING on the North side standing faire and lofty the Ioy of all the earth GOD is certainly her DEFENSE in her Battelments For behold VVhen Kings vvere assembled they passed by at once vvhen they Savv they mervilled they vver terrifyed and astonied ther a trembling took them and a Paine as of a vvoman in travaile of child vvith an East vvinde thou brakest the Ships of TarShish According as wee have heard and SEEN in the Citty of our GOD the warlike ETERNALL GOD will establish it for ever surely Wee think thy LOVEING KINDNES is with in thy Temple ô GOD thy NAME and thy PRAYSE is over the endes of the worlde for thy Righte hand is full of IVSTICE Let Mount Sion reioyce and all the Townes of Iudah be glad for thy JVDGEMENTS Goe round about Sion and compasse it and tell her Towers think vpon her Trenches consider her Platformes that you may tell it to another Generation for this shall be our ONELY GOD for evermore Hee hath brought vs over Death XLIX For the Cheeff of the Sonnes of Corah A Psalme HEARKEN hither all yee Nations and hear this all yee that inhabit the Continent Every Human wighte aswell rich as poore my mouth shall speak WISDOM and my hart think of VNDERSTANDING I will turn mine eares to a PARABLE and open my RIDLE vpon the Harp VVhy should I FEAR in dayes of Misery vvhen the Iniquity of my heeles is round about mee Men trust in their vvelth and glory in their great riches no man shall redeeme his Brother nor giue a price to God for him the Redemption of their liues is so deer that hee should stay for ever and liue continually and and not see the Pitt Hee see-eth that VVisemen dye and that Bruteish Sots doe perish together and leave their vvelth to others They think theire Houses shall indure for ever and their Dvvellings for all Generations and call them by their Names vpon their Landes but Man lodge-eth not in Honour and is ouercom like vnto Dumb Beastes This their VVAY is a Sottery to them and they that com after them vvill vvellcom it vvith their mouthes Surely They shall lye like Sheep in the Pitt Death shall devoure them straightvvay they shall haue Dominion over them And the Pitt shall vveare out their shape as soone as they be from their dvvelling house in it But GOD vvill redeem my life from the Brinck of hell because hee hath accepted mee surely FEARE not when a man goeth rich and the Glory of his house groweth great for
winges when I remember and think on thee vpon my bed in the Waches how thou hast been my HELPE My SOVLE cleeveth after thee thy righte hand holdeth mee while they that seek my LIFE are vnder the Earth and are shaken and com to nothing they that prouoke the KING by the sword are becom meat for foxes and let the KING reioyce in GOD and every Devout man glory in him because the mouth of them that speak Treason is stopped LXIV For the Cheeff A Psalm of DAVID O GOD in my Complaining hear my VOYCE Preserue my Life from Dread of the Enimyes hide me from the secret counsell of Naughty men and from the Conuent of them that be vvorkers of Greeff vvhich vvhet their Tonges like Svvordes dravve their Arrovves BITTER vvords priuily to hit the PERFECT man they shoot at him on a Suddain and fear not VVhich comfort themselues in an ill matter vvhich reckon to hide Snares and SAY Noe man shall see them they make a vvonderfull serche to finde out VVronges and the Invvard Thoughtes of a Man and the Bottom of his Hart and so let GOD shoot them and Soudain Arrovves be their strokes And let their ovvne Tonges that offend him fall vpon themselues that all may start that look vpon them and all men be afrayd and declare GODS VVORKE and consider and Lerne his DOING That the IVST man may REIOYCE in the ETERNALL relyeing in him and they Glory that are of an vpright minde LXV A Psalm for the Cheeff A Song of David FOR thee ô GOD abideth PRAYSE in Sion to thee be all Vowes performed ô thou that hearest PRAYER euen to thee let all flesh com for thou reconcile-est our Trespasses and pardonest the Iniquityes that ouercame mee HAPPY is hee whom thou chuse-est and entertainest to dwell in thy Courtes to satisfye vs with the GOODNES of thy House and Closet O Holly one Fearefull things shouldest thou Answer vs in IVSTICE O GOD of our SALVATION the TRVST of all the endes and Longinquityes of Land and Sea With the Girdle of his Power and EXCELLENCE which fasteneth the Hills and stilleth the proude waves of the Seas and Roaring of the Nations and the Inhabitants of the Endes and Issues of Morning Evening which are afrayed of thy Signes thou make-est to Triumph Thou lookest on the Erth and makest it runn full of water O GOD thou greatly inrichest it with Rivers thou prepare-est their corn for to that end thou ordeynedst it O wet her furrowes break her clodes dissolv it with Showers bless her Chisming crown the yeer with thy GOODNES that thy cart routes may flow with fatnes and drop Dwellings in the Wildernes and the Hills gird on Gladnes and the Plaines put on sheep and the Vales be clad with corne that they may triumph and Sing LXVI For the Cheeff A Psalm Song SHOVT vnto GOD all the Eearth SING PSALMES of his Glorious NAME set out his Glorious PRAYSE SAYE vnto GOD How fearfull is thy doing by thy great STRENGTH are thine Enimyes subdued vnto thee all the erth doe worship thee and make Hymnes vnto thee they chaunt out thy NAME surely Com and beholde the WORKES of GOD hee hath terrible INVENTION for the Children of men hee turneth the Sea into Dry Land that they went over the River on foot wher wee reioyced in him Hee rulle-eth the World by his EXELLENCE his Eyes wach over the People and let not the Rebellious exalt themselue Surely Blesse our GOD yee People Sound out the VOICE of his PRAYS that hath put our Soules in LIFE and not suffered our feet to slipp For thou hast prooved vs ô GOD and tryed vs like Silver thou hast brought vs into the Toyle and pressed our Loynes thou hast made men ride ouer our Heades vvee haue gon through fire vvater and thou broughtest vs out to a REFRESHING and I vvill goe into thy House vvith OFFERINGS I vvill pay the my Vovves vvhich my Lips opened and my mouth SPAKE in my Distresse I vvill offer Offerings of Rams fat and Incense vnto thee and I vvill Sacrifice Bullocks and Buck-Goates surely Com hearken all yee that fear GOD and I vvill TELL you vvhat hee hath don for mee I Cryed vnto him with my Mouth and he was much exalted vnder my tonge If I see any molestation in my hart the LORD hear mee not J assure you GOD hearkened to mee and hard the VOICE of my PRAYER Blessed be GOD vvhich put not avvaye my PRAYER nor hath taken avvay his KINDENES from mee LXVII For the Cheeff in Song Musicque A Psalme Song GOD be gratious vnto vs and blesse vs and LIGHTEN vs with his COVNTENANCE surely that they may knowe the WAYE of SALVATION among all Nations of the world that the People may confesse thee O GOD that all People may confesse thee That all Nations may Reioyce Triumph that thou Iudgest the People and leadest the folke rightely and discreetly surely That the People may confesse thee ô GOD that all People may confesse thee Our own GOD blesse vs that the Earth may giue her Abundance of increase GOD blesse vs that all out-coastes of the Earth may fear him LXVIII For the Cheeff of DAVID A Psalm Song LET GOD arise and let his Enimyes be skatered and they that hate him flee before him Drive them away like smoke and as wax melteth before the fire so let the WICKED perish before GOD. That the RIGHTEOVS may reioyce that they may leap before GOD and REIOYCE with ioy ô SING vnto GOD CHAVNT out his NAME strew vnto him that ride-eth in the Deserts and in his NAME ETERNALL vawnt and skip before him A father of the fatherles and a Husband of the Widowes is GOD in his holly MANSION hee teacheth to keep house alone hee bringeth out the Restrained in to commodious places but the wayward ones abide still in Droughth O GOD when thou wentest out before thy People when thou marchedst in the Wildernes surely the Earth shook in Sinai and the Heavens dropped from the very GOD of Israel thou droppedst liberall showers ô GOD thou confirmedst thine Inheritance when it was weery thy Congregation dwelt ther ô GOD and thou didest PROVIDE for the Oppressed My LORD gaue his word and ther
GOD haste-en to mee and thou my HELP and RESCVER ô ETERNALL make noe tarying LXXI IN thee ô ETERNALL doe I RELYE let me never be abashed by thy RIGHTEOVSNES deliver mee and RESCVE mee turne thine Eare to mee and SAVE mee Be thou my strong Hold to receiue mee allwayes and being my ROCK and GARISON send out to save mee Rescue mee ô GOD from the hand of the WICKED and from the gripes of the levened WRANGLER For thou art my HOPE and TRVST ô my LORD ETERNALL from my youth Vpon thee was I layed from my Mothers belly and thou wast my TAKER from her Bowels and my PRAYSE shall allwayes be of thee I am a Wonder to many that thou art my strong RELYE and that my mouth is dayly full of thy PRAYSE and DECENCYE ô cast mee not off in time of old-age nor forsake mee as my strength faileth Because mine Enimyes SAY of mee and the Observers of my Life are consulted together SAYING GOD hath forsaken him Pursue him take him for ther is none to deliuer him ô GOD be not farr from mee ô my GOD make haste to my HELP that they may be quite abashed and they that are against my Life and they that seek my hurt may put on REPROCHE and SHAME And I will allwayes WAITE and put more continually to all thy PRAYSES my Mouth shall dayly declare thy RIGHTEOVSNES and thy SALVATION For I know noe Number of them I will come with all my MIGHTE and make Mention of thy singular IVSTICE O my LORD ETERNALL O GOD thou hast taught mee from my youth and hitherto to set foorth thy mervillous WORKES and also at my old-age forsake mee not till I TELL of thy MIGHTY ARME to all Generations to come and thy RIGHTEOVSNES O GOD to the Highest VVhat great things thou hast don O GOD that ther is none like thee VVhich hast shevven mee many Distresses and EVILLS and come again and reviue-ed mee and come and took mee vp out of the Deepth of the Earth Thou hast turned about and comforted mee and increased my GREATNES manifold And I vvill set out also vpon my VIOL Instrument thy TRVTHE ô my GOD and vvill SING PSALMES vnto thee on my Harp ô Holly ONE of Israel My Lips shall triumph vvhen I SING vnto thee and my SOVLE that thou hast redeemed and my TONGE shall dayly talk of thy RIGHTEOVSNES Seeing that they are abashed and confounded that sought my Hurt LXXII For SALOMON O GOD giue thy IVDGEMENTS RIGHTEOVSNES to the Kings sonne that hee may SENTENCE the Lowly people with Righte Iudgement that the Mountaines and Hills by IVSTICE may bear PEACE for the people that hee may quite the Lowly people and save the Children of the Poore and beate down the Oppressour that with the Sunne Moone a Generation of Generations may fear thee That it may com downe like Raine vpon the Aftermath and dropping Showers on the Land That in his dayes the RIGHTEOVS may flowrish and much PEACE as long as the Moone lasteth And that hee may RVLLE from Sea to Sea and from the River to the vtmust Land That the Savages may bow and his Enimyes lick the Dust the Kings of Tarshish and of the Ilandes render Presentes the Kings of Sheba and Seba offer Rewardes and that all Kinges of all Nations may worship him and serve him because hee deliuereth the Poore when hee shouteth and the Oppressed when he hath no Helper because hee haâ—h pitty vpon the Empty and Poore man saveth the Liues of the Poore and Ransometh their SOVLES from GVILE and INIVRY their blood being deer in his Eyes That he may dayly BLESSE him and allwayes Pray for his Life and giue him of the Gold of Sheba That the fruite of a little feeld of Corn on the hill TOP may shake like Libanon and that they may flowerish out of the Citty like the grasse of the Earth That his NAME may be in the Sunn and spring for ever That all Nations may BLESSE themselues in him and call him HAPPY Blessed be GOD ETERNALL the GOD of Israel that only doth MERVILLOVS things and Blessed be his GLORIOVS NAME for ever and let his GLORY be plentifull in all the Earth INDEED and INDEED The Prayer of David the Sonne of ISHA are ended THE THIRD BOOKE LXXIII A Psalm of ASAPH TRVELY GOD is good to Jsrael hee is good to the pure mindeed for I freated exceedingly at the vaine glorious fooles vvhen I savv the Peace of the vvicked and my feet vvear allmoste gone and my footings even quite confounded because their death hath noe coÌ„streints it is free from bandes they are not Plagued vvith the paines of vvreched men therfor Pride inuirons them and the very habit of Iniury doth couer them Their eyes are euen out vvith fatt and they haue vailes ouer their hartes they speak putrifyed speeches of the naughtines of their misdealing they speak a highe and set their mouthes in the heauen and their tonges goe in all the earth and they say How doth GOD know or is ther any knowledge in the Soveraigne Therfore let his people come hither and plenty of water shall be wrong vnto them behold these wicked men gett all the prosperity in the world Truely in vain doe I cleer my hart and wash my handes in harmlesnes and am dayly plagued and haue Correction every morning If I say I will Speak like them Behold I doe renounce the generation of thy children and I made reckoning to knowe this and it seemed paine vnto mee vntill I came into the Sanctuary of the Almighty and vnderstood their later END Certainly thou puttest them in slippery place-es thou make-est them fall into Traines How are they as in a moment wasted spent and fearfully consumed Like a dream of one vvhen hee avvaketh ô my LORD thou marrest their Image in the riseing And I was with thee like a brute beast with a sower hart and my reines pricking and knew nothing and I beeing continually with thee thou heldest mee by my right hand and ledest mee by thy counsell and after entertainedst mee with GLORY Who haue I in heaven but thee and in the erth I haue none with thee to delight in all my residue is don and GOD is my hart my very haâ—t pinn and portion for euer And I because loe thy far-absenters perish and thou destroyest every one that whooreth from thee
haue made the carcases of thy Servants meat for the fowles of Heaven and the flesh of thy Gratious ones food for the beasts of the erth They haue shed their blood like water round about Ierusalem and ther is none that buiryeth them and wee are a Reproche a Laughing stock and a Mocking stock to all our Neighbours round about vs. O ETERNALL wher to wilt thou be angry for euer how lōg shall thy Ialousy burn like fire ô powre out thy hot Wrath vpon the Hethen which know thee not and vpon the Kingdoms that call not vpon thy NAME Because it hath eatē vp Iacob and they haue made his goodly dwelling desolate Remember not our former Iniquityes but set thy mercyes quickly before vs for wee are greatly waste-ed Help vs ô GOD for the GLORY of thy NAME and deliuer vs and make reconciliation for our sinnes for thy Names sake Why shall the Hethen SAY Wher is their GOD Let him be known manifestly among the Hethen before our eyes a Revenge of the blood of his Servantes that is shed Let the Prisoners groneing come before thee and according to the greatnes of thine ARME restore thou them that are condemned to dye And to our Neighbours turn into their bosomes seven times ô Lord their Reproche which they have reproched thee and wee thy People and the sheep of thy pasture will publish and tell out thy PRAYSE for ever yea for all Generations LXXX For the Cheeff vpon Shoshannim Edbuth A Psalm of ASAPH O Sheephard of Israel hear vs thou that conductest Ioseph like a flock of sheep Inhabitest the Cherubs SHINE out Rouse vp thy STRENGTH before Ephraim Benjamin and Manasses and come and help vs. Guide vs O GOD by the Shineing of thy COVNTENANCE we may be safe O ETERNALL GOD of hostes How long wilt thou FVME against the PRAYERS of thy People thou feedest them with bred of weeping and make-est them drink with abundance of Teares Thou settest vs a Taunt for our Neighbours and our Enimyes make a Mock at them O GOD of Hostes Conduct vs by the Shineing of thy COVNTENANCE wee may bee safe Thou remoovedst a VINE out of Egypt and expelledst the Hethen and plantedst it thou madest a clean riddance before it and madest her rootes take root fill the Land and the hilles wear covered with her Shadow her branches beeing like mighty Ceders her short bowes and sucking shoots shee reached out to the Sea and to the Rivers Why hast thou broke-en down her hedgees that all Travailers doe curss her The Savage Swine out of the wood and the wilde beestes of the feeld waste it and devoure it ô GOD of Warr com look vpon I pray thee out of Heauen and behold and visit this Vine the Stock which thy right hand hath planted and vpon the SONNE which thou hast confirmed to thy self which are burnt with fire as of a purgeing and perish with thy chideing Countenance Let thy Hand bee vpon all human men of thy Right hand which thou hast confirmed vnto thee that wee may not slip back from thee quicken vs to call vpon thy NAME ô ETERNALL GOD of Hostes Guid vs with the Shineing of thy COVNTENANCE that wee may be safe LXXXI For the Cheeff vpon the Git Instrument A Psalm of ASAPH SOVND out to our MIGHTY GOD of STRENGTH Sing aloud to the GOD of Jacob take vp the Psaltery and take the taber the sweet harp and the Viol and at our feast-dayes in the new-moones appointed blow the Trumpet for that was a prescribe-ed custom of the GOD of Iacob vnto Israel hee set it a TESTIMONY in Ioseph of his going out against the Land of Egypt I heard Lips that I knew not hee whos shoulders I took from the burden and his handes went from the basket in distresse thou didst call J released thee I answered thee in secret thunder tryed thee at the waters of Meribah surely Hear O thou my People of Israel and I will protest of thee if thou wilt hear mee that ther bee no strange GOD within thee neither wilt fall down to worship any forain GOD I the ETERNALL thy GOD which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt open thy mouth wide and I will fill it But my People Israel would not hearken to my VOYCE nor consent vnto mee and I let them goe in the torment of their mindes and walk in their own counsells If Israel had hearkened to mee and had walked in my wayes J would had soon abased their Enimyes and layed my hand on their foes The Haters of the ETERNALL had been devoteed to him and their time should had lasted for Ever and hee would had fed him with wheaten flower and I would had satisfyed thee from the Hony rock LXXXII A Psalm of ASAPH GOD standeth cheeff in the Assembly of GOD and is IVDGE among the Godes themselves Why will you doe wrong JVDGEMENT and accept the face of the vvicked ones Surely Iudge yee the Empty and the fatherlesse the oppressed and poor-man with Iust IVDGEMENT Free and deliuer the Empty and Needy out of the handes of the VVicked But they know nothing nor vnderstand any thing they walk in darknes that all the foundations of the Erth are moved I sayd Yee are Godes and I call yee all the Children of the Most Highe but like men shall yee dye and fall like any one of the Prince-es Vp thou O GOD and Iudge the Earth for thou hast inheritance in all Nations LXXXIII A Psalm Song of ASAPH O GOD bee not thou silent hold not thy peace nor sit thou still ô ALLMIGHTY one For behold thine ENIMYES that hate thee make a noyse and hold vp the head they take crafty counsell against thy People and consult against thy Preserved They say Come let vs cut them off from a Nation that the NAME of Israel bee never remembred more for they consult in their mindes together and make a Covenant against thee The Tabernacles of Edom and Moab and the Ismaelites and them of Hagar Gebal and Ammon and Amalek and Phelistia with the Inhabitantes of Tyre yea Assur also is ioyned with them and wear a helping Arme to the Children of Lot surely Doe thou to them as thou didst to Midian as thou
all vvilde-beasts creep abroad the young Lions roaring for Prey to seek their meat from the Almighty VVhen the Sunn riseth they are couched together in their dens that man may goe foorth to his vvork and to his Husbandry till the Euening Hovv many are thy VVORKES ô ETERN all that thou hast don by VVISDOM the Earth is full of thy Indevour The great and vvide reaching SEA vvher are creeping liuing Creatures small great vvithout number VVher Ships doe goe and LEVIATHAN that thou hast formed to sport therin vvhich all doe hope vpon thee to giue thē their meat in his time Thou openest thy hand and giue-est them and they gather and are vvell Satisfied Thou hide-est thy FACE and they are astonyed thou take-est avvaye their breth and they yeld vp the Ghost and turn again to their Dust. Thou sendest out thy SPIRIT and they are CREATED again and thou Renewest the face of the Earth That the GLORY of the ETER may be for euer and the ETER REIOYCE in his WORKES which looketh vpon the EARTH and it trembleth and toucheth the MOVNTAINES and they Smoke J will sing Psalmes vnto the ETERN my GOD as long as I live and because my SPEECH of him is sweet I will REIOYCE in the ETERN That VVicked Sinners be consumed out of the Earth and be no more therin BLESSE the ETERN ô my SOVLE the ETERNALL be PRAYSED CV WORSHIP yee the ETERNALL CALL vpon his NAME make KNOWEN his EXCELLENT ACTS among the Nations sing Psalmes vnto him and speak of all his Wonderous Works Boast yee in his holly NAME Let their hart bee meery that seek the ETER Inquire for the STRENGTH of the ETERN and euermore seek his FACE Remember the WONDERFVLL MIRACLES which hee hath don the STATVTS of his mouth yee Seed of his Servant Abraham his chosen yee Children of Iacob The very ETER our GOD his STATVTES are in all the Earth The Word of his COVENANT which hee REMEMBRED for ever and commanded to a thousand Generations which hee made with Abraham and his othe vnto Isaac and made it stand for a DECREE to Jacob and to Israel an Everlasting COVENANT SAYING Vnto thee will I giue the Land of Canaan the line of your Inheritance When they wer small of Number and few and Strangers in it When they went from Nation to Nation and from one Kingdom to another People Hee Suffered noe man to oppresse them and REPROVE-ED Kinges for them Touch yee not mine ANOYNTED doe my PROPHETS no harme When hee called a Famine vpon the Land and brake all the Stay of bred hee sent one before them evē Ioseph that was sold for a slaue whose feet they hurt in the Stocks that the iron went to his Soul Till the time the WORD of the ETERNALL came and his SAYING tryed him the King sent to loose him and the Ruller of the People to inlarge him and made him Lord of his House and Ruller ouer all his Provision To instruct his Prince-es in his will and to teache his Elders wisdon When Israel was com into Egypt and Iacob was a Strange-er in the Land of Ham and his People were very fruitfull and hee had made them stronger then their Besiegers hee had turned their harts to hate his People and to conspire against his Servantes Hee sent Moses his Servant and Aaron whom hee chose that they might bring among them word of his Signes and MJRACLES in the Land of Ham. Hee sent darknes and made it dark and they disobeyed not his commandements hee turned their Waters in to blood and killed their fish their Land crauled full of froges in their Kings Chambers Hee commaunded and Swarmes of Flyes and Lice came in all their borders hee gave them showers of haile and flameing fire in their Land hee smote their Vines and their Fig-trees and broke the Trees of their borders Hee commanded and ther came Chafers and Caterpillars innumerable and did eat vp all the green grass of their Land and devoured the fruit of their Ground And smote all the first born of their Land the Prime of all their Strength and brought them foorth with Siluer and Gold and not one feeble Man was among their Tribes Egypt vvas glad of their goeing out because their Terror vvas fallen vpon them Hee spred a Cloude for a VAJLE and fire to giue Lighte in the nighte They requested and hee brought Quailes and satisfied them vvith Bread of Heauen Hee opened the Rock and the vvaters issued out and rann like a Riuer in the Dry place-es for hee Remembred his Sacred VVORD vvith his Seruant Abraham and brought foorth his Chosen PEOPLE vvith Joy and TRIVMPH and Gave them the Countryes of the Heathen and the paines of the Nations to possesse That they may keep his PRESCRIPTS and obserue his LAVV. The ETERNALL be praised CVI. PRAISE the ETERNALL GOD ô Worship the ETERNALL for his GOODNES and because his LOVEING-KINDENES is for euer Who is ther that can Particular out his VIRTVES sound out all his PRAISE HAPPY are they that obserue RIGHTE and hee that doeth IVSTICE at at all times ô ETERN think vpon mee and visit mee with the favourable SALVATION of thy People that I may ioyfully look vpon the JOY and WELTH of thy chosen People and be come an Actor of thy PRAYSES with thine INHERITANCE VVee haue Sinned vvith our Fathers and don frovvardly and vvickedly Our Fathers considered not and thought not vpon thy vvonderfull and great KINDENESSES in Egypt and they Rebelled at the Sea-side by the Red Sea and for his NAMES sake he saued them to make knovvn his VIRTVE hee Rebuked the Red Sea that it vvas dry as a vvildernes and lad them in the DEEPS And Saued them and quit them from the hands of their Heynous Enimyes and the vvaters ouervvelmed their Besiegers that not one of them remained And they beleeued his VVORD and sung his PRAYSE They soon forgate his DOINGS and attended not to his COVNSELL and longed a longing and tempted the ALMIGHTY GOD in the vvast VVildernes And hee gaue them their Request and hee sent a REPJNEJNG in their mindes and they freated at Moses in the Camp and at Aaron the Holly one of the ETERNALL that the Earth opened and svvallovved vp Dathan and ouercouered the Assembly of Abiram and fire kindled in their Assembly and the Flames burnt vp the VVICKED ONES They made a Molten Calf
vpholder of all that are falling a setter vpright of all that are declineing The eyes of all vvaite vpon thee and thou givest them their meat in his Season opening thy hand and satisfying every Living Creature freely The ETERNALL is Iust in all his Wayes and Kinde in all his Workes The ETERNALL is Neer to them that call on him to all that call vpon him Faythfully Hee vvill doe the Will of them that feare him and hear their Shouting and save them The ETERN that keepeth all that love him and destroyeth all the wicked let my mouth speak the PRAISE of the ETERNALL and all flesh blesse his holly NAME forevermore CXLVI PRAISE yee the ETERNALL my SOVL praise thou the ETERN I will praise the ETERN and sing Psalmes to my GOD as long as J live Trust yee not in Prince-es nor in any childe of man in whom ther is noe Salvation whose breth goeth out and hee returnes to his owne earth in that day his thoughtes perish Happy is hee whose Help is the GOD of Iacob and his Hope is vpon the ETERN his GOD the make-er of Heaven and Earth and the Sea all that is in them And that keepeth Faythfullnes for ever That doth right the oppressed and give bread to the Hungry The ETERN that looseth them that are bound The ETERNALL that openeth the eyes of the blinde and setteth vpright them that are bowed down the ETERNALL that loveth the Just. The ETERNALL that keepeth the Strangers and mainteineth the Fatherles and the Widow and overâ—hroweth the way of the Wicked The ETERNALL thy GOD ô Zion raigne for ever for all Generations The ETERNALL bee praised CXLVII PRAISE yee the ETERNALL and chaunt thou out our GOD because hee is good pleasant and his PRAISE is comely The ETERNALL that built Jerusalem and gathered together the Scatered of Jsrael that healeth the broken harted and bindeth vp their sores that Telleth the Number of the Starrs and calleth the Names to them all Great is our LORD and of great Power and of his Vnderstanding ther is noe declareing The ETERNALL that advaunceth the Lowly and humbleth the Wicked to the ground Sing yee Psalmes of Thanks Offering to the ETERNALL our GOD vpon the Harp Which Covereth the Heavens with cloudes and prepare-eth rain for the Earth That make-eth the Hilles to Spirt out grasse giveth the bease their food and the young Ravens which call Hee hath not delight in the Valiantnes of a Horse nor hath liking in the Legs of a man The ETERNALL like-eth them that fear him and Waite for his Kindenes ô Ierusalem commend the ETERN and praise thou thy GOD ô Zion Because hee strengtheneth the bars of thy Gates and blesseth thy children vvithin thee and setteth Peace in thy borders satisfyeth thee vvith vvheaten flovver that sendeth his Saying to the Earth and his Word runneth moste speedily That giveth Snovv like vvhite vvool and scatereth hore-frost like Ashes That casteth out his hard Ice like morsells and vvho can abide for the cold thereof hee sendeth out his Word and Thavveth them hee maketh his vvinde to turne and they drop vvater That telleth his Word to Jacob his Prescripts and Iudgements to Israel He hath not done so to any Nation that they should not know his Iudgements The ETERN bee praised CXLVIII PRAISE the ETERNALL praise the ETERNALL out of the Heavens Praise him in the Highthes Praise him all his Angels Praise him all his Hostes. Praise him Sunn Moon praise him all Starrs of Light Praise him yee Heavens of Heavens and yee Waters which are above the Heavens Let them praise the NAME of the ETERN for hee commanded and they wer created And hee made them stand for an everlasting Statute hee gave a Prescript which should not passe Praise the ETERN Things of the EARTH Yee great VVhales and all Deepthes Fire and Haile Snovv Vapours vvhirlvvinde that doth his Commande The Mountaines and all Hilles Fruit-trees and all Ceders Cattell and all Bease Creeping things and fethered fovvle Kinges of the Earth and all Nations Prince-es and all Iudge-es of the Earth Yong-men and Maydes Oldmen and Children Let them praise the Name of the ETERN because his Name onely is to be exalted and his Worship both by the Earth the Heavens Which holdeth vp the Horne of his People the Prayse of his Gratious Ones of the Children of Israel his Proper People The ETERNALL be praised CXLIX PRAISE the ETERNALL sing yee a NEW SONG to the ETERN of his PRAYSE in the Congregation of his GRATIOVS-ONES Let Israel rejoyce in his MAKE-ER the Children of Zion triumph in their KING Let them praise his NAME vvith Pipes and sing Psalmes to him vvith Tabret and Harp Because the ETERNALL hath alikeing to his People and glorifyeth the lowly with SALVATION Let the Gratious Ones triumph Gloriously and Sing aloud vpon their beds vvith Exaltationes of the ALL MIGHTY in their Throates and a tvvo edged svvord in their handes For working Revenge among the Heathen Chastisment among the Nations for bindeing their Kinges in Manicles and their Noble-men in Iron-Chaines for fullfilling among them the SENTENCE that is written Hee is an ornament to all his Saintes The ETERNALL be praised CL PRAISE the ETERNALL praise the ALLMIGHTY in his Sanctuary Praise him in the Firmament of his Strength Praise him for his Valiant Actes praise him according to his Mighty Greatnes Praise him with the sound of the Trumpet Praise him with the Viol and Harp Praise him with Taber and Pipe praise him with Timbrels and Fife Praise him with Loude Bells praise him with loud-sounding Cymballs Let every breath praise the ETERNALL The ETERNALL be praised ARGVMENTS VPON THE PSALMS PSALM I. AS the Law is the touch-stone of the lives of men so this work of Psalmes is to bring them to it Psal. 26 and this Psalme the formost to shew the way Heer the judgement and justice therof is layed to the rule and weighed And seeing all that men would haue is but happines of their liues and Eternity hee sheweth by a short description the way to it To avoyde the Enimyes and all impediments therof the wicked counsell of transgressers to leaue the known way of Sinn Psa. 36 and not to skorn instruction And this person hee
signe his keeping himself undefile-ed in religion His keeping of Gods word and not denyeing his name and holding his fayth Now Salomon sayth the way of God is strength to the upright man like a Ps. 18. and so may the King well delight in his salvation Ps. 24. hee that looseth his fayâ—h looseth his strength And this strength in this Psalme is called the morning strength or strength of youth the strength of the Law of God and way of godlynes Which as the adulterers bestow the same upon the harlot and strange woman so they that revolt from it are called adulterers and make the members of righteousnes the meÌ„bers of an harlot Ps. 73. and this is the matter of Davids complaint in this Psalme That God hath left off saveing of him cry hee never so sore and his strength fayleth Psal. 71. and why hee should not be saved by his faith as well as the fathers of the church before him like Hebr. 11. seeing his trust was upon God from his mothers brest and had no other succour but was wholeley cast upon him all his life And why hee receiveth all reproche in the world while they are highly commended that his trust was so notable that hee suffered all kinde of floutes and mocks and skorn for the same His adversity is the terriblest enimyes set upon him in the terriblest manner and hee is as a man without any strength and like a dead man Psal. 88.71 with neither courage nor strength to save himself or face to look upon them But is like water spilt on the ground of no strength quite lost and undon his bones hang not together his hart is molten his marrow is dryed and his tong cleaves to his Iawes and that God hath even turned him to dust They tear him in peeces and quarter him like dogs and lions that hee may see his bones in their mouthes by their looks upon him and his clothes divide-ed among them Now that hee hath made himself so strengthless so helpless so vile in Name and so sore in affliction that of all men hee saw himself moste contemptible and his distresses so nigh hee prayeth to add continuall presence and favour and his speedy might again to deliver him and save him That hee and all that fear God the seed of Iacob and Israel may declare and praise his name in the church and glorifye him and stand in aw of him for his grace and countenance and attendance to the humble and aflicted and they that seek God may feed upon his doctrine with full contentment and refresh their hartes for ever that the ends of all the earth may therby bee converted and haue minde to com to God and Iaphet may dwell in the tents of Sem. And becaus the Kingdom and rule of all nations is Gods that all the fanilyes of the Hethen may bow down and worship before him yea the miserable soules that haue no life in them and are going to their grave may be fed and bow down and worship like him That the gentiles may com in to prais God and serve him and be counted for his children and declare his Iustice and tell what things hee hath don to all that shall be born heerafter The summ af all is this that seeing hee was cast upon the Eternall from his birth and hath had no friend but God in al his life hee that for deliverances had all the praises of Israel and that hee hath committed no aduletry that way Ps. 73. now in extreame distress hee prayeth for speedy comfort and not to bee cast off that hee may also prayse God and so that all people may be fed with his doctrine that even the very hethen may admire it and worship the eternall for his infinite Kingdom and likewise becom his childeren to prais him That God leaveth not his servant in any low estate nor despiseth them for any affliction nor turneth at any time from his servants and children that turn not from him his servants beeing counted for his children and generation that all sortes should seek him and not for any affliction change their God seeing hee is King of all nations Construction The letters are to extinguish or put out from Cabha or to bee extinguished as the seed of the godly shall never bee This is seen in repetition of the word seed of Iacob the seed of Israel the Seed that serveth the Lord and feareth the Eternall shall be an everlasting posterity and no affliction or adversity shall extinguish it That feed upon the word and adore the Eternall Thes words also are repeted as caph to bow â—arang outcasts and afflicted Dust Ashes aged feeble all degrees and kindes of extincts His misery can not extinguish him becaus the unquenchable spirit of the word comforts him Caph a hand for might beth for be ezra helping be as the grammarians call and this sense and wordes is three times repeated Far from may help be not far wheÌ„ distress is nigh and I haue no helper Ps. 32. Is. 58. and ô Eternall my might make hast to my help as goe the letters so goe their allusions together easy to be marked Genesis The mighty God hath left him helpless and is far off and the just God heareth him not for all his calling Though the fathers triumphed in his deliverance But hee hath his delight in the mercyfull Eternall upon their faith and cryeing to him Their quiescency is their faith his quiescencey is in his fayth in the Eternal and his Kingdom in the help of God The token therof is in El Ejaloth For might the same word in a double forme perfect and imperfect and the words of delivering often repeated and fayth the means of help be gnezra ha El by the help of God Hee is delighted with the invocation upon the Eternall Ps. 14. which also is a reformation of man PSALM XXIII WHen God is sheepheard then is the church the flock Psal. 80. and the scriptures and word of God the pasture hee that in this Psalme is sheepheard in the last and in the Psalme following is King as you see Heer in David findeth such refreshing and releeft in distresses that hee reckoneth himself heerby to abound to be strong and rich in all want and poverty and persecution what soever that hee hath ever stusteined him that hee need not despaire for hee wanteth nothing that is good Ps. 37. Now becaus ingratitude is a theevery and not to restore as great a stealth as taking by force and hee hath received heerin and heerby the highâ—st blessings that can bee and that they have been his guide his meat his drink his companion his feast his anoyntment his mirth his peace and plenty in darck and cloudy times of adversity and that in the sight of his persecutors and hath still brought him through for his own names sake and to shew the power and strength of his word as in Psal. 22. and therfor from hence hee getteth this
in despight of all preparation that hee onely may bee conqueror and stand the last man upon the earth as Redeemer and bee exalted for ever For his dwelling allwayes among them and his watchfullnes over them and his early riseing to defend them by the power of his word And for this cause they will haue no other Gods but him the God of hostes the God of Iacob the right God of their Salvation upon whom they still presume and are stout and undaunted for ever Construction Mem waters swelling and roreing and troubled waters for Seas the rageing of the Nations and Kingdomes and for Warr any distres and desolations by warr as Da 9. secondly the quiet waters of life in the temple and doctrine of the word to save which they call the God of warr for martiall discipline that is still on their side and redy to help them and voweth to prevaile over all the other kindes of waters Vav a hook or crook for the copulative The church is not pulled back with fear or cowardlynes but affixed as God with us c. The two letters make the Incliticque Mo Ps. 2. alluded unto by the Churches Relyeing and help affixed Mark the repetition Exodus This resembles altogether the passing the red-sea both for phrase and effect the one water working upon the other The word melted the hartes of them it runs through the battail and dauntes the Army And maketh way through the Enimy and tameth the seas by the presence therof the High for Moses authority The Namâ— is Iacobs God the God of warr the best discipline and Munition about them Mark the repetition The God of Hostes c and mountaines and kingdoms and waters and nations compared c. For a kinde of Passover or escape PSALM XLVII THe Eternall being soveraigne King and Defender of all the earth having conquered diverse Nations giues Iacob the best inheritance because he loved him and sitting in his holy Throne the Scriptures of all people in the world hee preferreth the Iewes the people of Abrahams God that is them of the faith and righteousnesse of Abraham and that of the law Therefore the Corites invent for the church to sing a plaudite and triumph to their king with all shrilnes alacrity for that their God raigneth and that for their Iustification The second Psalme giveth warning to all the world to subiect themselues to the Promiss and content themselues with obedience therunto and reverently and willingly abide it and not to resist the hope of the faithfull for feare of destruction Neither was the law of Moses made to resist the faith of Abraham or against the promiss but to describe the righteousnesse of Abraham and set out the tree of a godly life whose leaues never fall to the ground as Psalme 1 but all his words are with judgement as Psal. 112. And so is the law the way to grace and hindereth not the promiss and Moses and the Prophets to Abrahams bosom Now the Sun-beames of the promiss psal 2. in this Psalme shine vpon the walles of Sion both in the same words and matter For God haueing subdued the Nations and giuen Iacob a proud Inheritance that hee hath prevailed with great shouting both high and terrible and is inthronized in his law as a mightie King and defendour of all the earth for this great defence of the Church and their deliverance and their setting of them now at their rest They will all Nations to triumph and sing to their God and extoll their King and praise his wisedome and to haue no other God because this their God the God of Abrahams people haue been best defended of all the people of the world and hee hath heere performed his promiss Gen. 15. And thus the childe of righteousnesse receaueth his blessing psal 2. and anoyntment aboue his fellowes as psal 45. Now the reason of inverting the words Abraham Isack and Iacob in the three last Psalmes is that hee may with Abraham conclude the promisse and fall againe to the storie And this also is holy and most mysticall but vsuall As Thummim before Vrim Ps. 26.27 Sarah before Abraham psal 111.112 and the diverse transpositions and interruptions altering and maiming of the order of the A B C Psalmes for godly mysteryes Construction Mem waters people and Nations Inheritance the pride of Iacob c. Gods holy throne is the Sciptures which is also waters yf all the Nations in the world were gathered together like the water Gen. 1. yet becaus hee reigneth over all in the scriptures his people are cheeff for the preeminence of discipline as the waters aboue the firmament have domination over the waters beneath So hee sitteth upon the water and ruleth â—he waters Ps. 29. by subdueing all and takeing his choise For this upon the letter Zain to hear the loudest and moste triumphing noise and voices for the hearing and sweetest chaunting and psalming is comanded for the excellencey of his Majesty by the way of waters also Psalm 93 96. by a like metaphore of clapping c Exodus The God of Abraham one other of the Names of Moses authority and commission is described Exo. 3. From Gen. 14. by the terme Eljon High c. Maggen Defens words from that text Ther is no higher thing then raigning and power and Dominion And this for beeing above all and excelling all hee is to be honoured above all and solemnized as by the doubled wordes and phrases Sing psalmes c. so is hee over all and passeth all and his kingdom is for a kinde of passover and promotion PSALM XLVIII FOr the greatnes of the majesty of God and the glory of Sion the wonder of the world the Enimyes that combineed against Ierusalem were astonyed and trembled for fear This was Edom Moab and Amon against Iehoshaphat King of Iudah Now becaus they know that their Gods Righteousnes Iudgement and dayly kindenes for their service of him dwelling in their towers and Temple is their Defens whose Name and Prais is over all the world the Chorites sing in Procession his Iudgements Ps. 97. goeing round about the citty to consider her strength â—nd glory to record it and tell it to their children that they may keep it in minde for ever in memory of their deliverance and serve him As all bodyes live by the hart so the Law and body of Moses is not without affection and devotion and a liueing and a gratious soul within it for salvation and recovery of Mankinde after sinn and redemption after his fall And this is by a righteous government called the Kingdom of God which was still their conductor and defendour and the cloud over the mercy seat that was the priests warrant for sacrifice and atonement so highly commended in the last Psalme For the wonderfull grace and blessing of inheritance bestowed upon them in the promiss which was covered with a vail as the vaile lay over their hartes and understanding when they read it For as the
the former Psalmes Every state hath proper ordinance of conservation which failing all the constitution soon commeth to ruine The whole strength and stay was the Law of God and his service which when they failed to doo fell to strange service God was no farther tyed by promiss nor covenant to defend them Moste solemn Anthemes and Choralls must perpetually bee sung by the Church to this strength in their Passovers and feastes of unleavened bread and new moones c. for their sweet redemption from their sore burdens and sower travail of affliction in Aegypt beeing delivered from a corrupt and slavish bondage to a glorious liberty of the service of God At their sore cry and request hee released them and susteyned them that they might onely serve him which yf they had don and kept themselves wholely to him unspotted and chaste and undefileed with Idolatry as hee answered all their hard questions and temptations at meribah and by thundring Sermons opened the Scriptures in Sina as Ps. 61.68 so whatsoever sweet thing they had asked farther hee would had given them their mouthes and their bellye 's full of satisfaction as the destruction of all their Enimyes plenty and perpetuity of their estate and had fed them with milk and hony But they would not hearken to his voice nor bee ruleed by his word and would none of him but follow other Gods what they thought good in their own hartes therfor are they justly left off and thus tormented and let goe to destruction This from the first and second commandement Construction Pe a mouth the mouth was fed and satisfied when they cried in Aegypt and God heard them their lips for mouth He will fill their mouth he will feed him deintily with doctrine and give him all his longing By sweet words and cleer interpretation and sermons and Iudgements and sentences sweeter then hony Psal. 19. Aleph to learne or instruct yf so bee they will heare and bee instructed and not forsake their religion but they would not hearken not bee instructed but erred in their harts Psal. 95. and that was destruction to them A soft answer putteth away strife Gods word contenteth the soul as meat is for the belly Thunder and Meribah and Voice and Tower and Rock and release Victory agree for answer and satisfaction Mark the wordes repeated strange God c. hear hearken walk c. Testimony protest all asking and fullfilling triumphing and the work of the mouth Leviticus The lips of the Priests preserv knowledge so prais is the fruit of the lips open my mouth c. Ps. 51.71 This was an ordinance and an Act and duty for the Ministry in the remembrance of their redemption and deliverance Num. 10. See the divers writeing of Ioseph in the 80. And in this Iehoseph to shew that Ioseph added much to the Church as Act. 2. at the preaching of Peter Mark the blessing of Ioseph Gen. 49. Deut. 33. his strength and sweetnes the stone of Israel and Rock of the Church And sheepheard and feeder and teacher and Nazarit and separate and consecrate of his bretheren c. PSALM LXXXII VNtill Iniquity bee com to the full Estates com not to finall ruine Iniquity commeth not to the full till Iudgement bee lost and knowledge and syncerity decayed for heerby was the world made and stedfastnes of all estates This word was committed unto the Angels the Priests and ministers to be preserved in their lips and worn in and upon their harts for the continuall succour and estate of Gods people also to anoynt Kings and Iudges of the Earth who for the Miâ—istration heerof from God were termed Gods and the Children and the sonns of God Now seeing all justice is for the Poor and all succour is ordeyned for them that bee comforttless and oppressed aud seeing in the church even in the presence of God that judgeth them they favour the wicked ones and by wrong Iudgement leave the poor in their handes and this for want of judgement and understanding which shaketh all that they take the Name of God in vain wherfor they shall loos their Names their placees and their immortall state of knowledge and fall from heaven to the ordinary estate and end of humane Princees and comun men and all for Ignorance or Partiality Hee at last appealeth and prayeth that God himself will now arise and doo the earth justice and judge his inheritance in all Nations and this according to the third Commandement Construction Lev. 19. In petaroth Quedoshim that is holy or holy ones c. Pro. 31. for Pe a mouth for the sentence of the Iudge and cry of the poor and as you may see by the harping upon the words just judge God deliver poor c. for Iustice feedeth the poor by releâ—ving them And wher just and right judgement faileth by ignorance all houses and buildings foundations and ground works shake and ther is an earthquake and tottering of all instruction and edification And that is according to the letter Beth a hous And all government shall fall to ground Leviticus Shall not the judge of all the world doo right so hee appealeth when the Church and Ministry are without knowledge and unjust for the iniquity of judgement among the Gods and Ministers of the Church for foolish and pervers judgement to the moste upright God himself that well knoweth and rightly weighes all and all from the first and last wordes Gods is the Archbishop and cheeff Pastor and Prelat to â—ondemne the leaders and Princees of the Levites by the words cheeff and Prinâ—â— answering one the other Nitsabh and Sar. PSALM LXXXIII THey that bee born after the flesh still persecute them that are born of the spirit Because of the ill will of thes mixt and impure Nations at Zion and their particular and spitefull quarells against Ierusalem as Edom and Amalek for birth-â—ight the Ismaelites for bondage and Moab and Ammon and Amalek For bastardize whch allwayes grudgeing or beeing grudgeed of them or accurssed with Phelistia Tyre and Ashur that joyned with them they grow stout and presumptions of their great strength They draw to counsell and â—onsult against Iehoshaphat and the Church of God 2 Cro. 1.20 How to cutt off their Nation with their noble and famous memory for ever And make a league and combine themselves by covenant against God and for the abolishing of his Name for ever as Psal. 48. The Churches prayer now is that God will not be silent or sit still at this But because they keep not holy-day that hee would bestirr himself against them likewise And handle them as hee dealt with the Midianites for the like attempt and presumption and handle their Princees and choise Men as hee handled theirs That they may flye like chaff before the winde hee pursueing them with flames of Terror of his tempestuous wrath and while men seek the Name of the Eternall it may scorch their faces turne them about again like a
dead in sorrowfull lives buryed deeply in distresses and covered with wrongfull oppression shutt up from their freindes and acquaintance by remotenes and terriblely amaseed by affliction and Gods angry terror upon them Now how can they confess him aright as Psalm 86.137 and shew his kindenes and faithfullnes among the Destroyers and make his Miracles plain among them that understand nothing or manifest his Iustice wher it shall not bee remembred For this hee prayeth aloud in the night as Psalm 134. And holdeth up his handes and calleth dayly for salvation and redemption with early shouting and praier for the same to wit their return to Ierusalem to prais him counting all placees els in the world but an absolute state of death whersoever they were captiveed Construction Pe a mouth mouth to mouth or face to face for manifest as by prayer and Oration to God Affliction is the contrary for obscureity signified by the whole nature of the grave and dead men What theyr estate is mark his presence in these words before thee praying shouting and cryeing and calling confess told manifested Gods wrath remember And a miserable estate is compareed to a grave for all propertyes So his life is full of all evills none evill escapes him Hee is at the mouth of the pitt expireth Hee is dead slain weak out of minde cutt off in the deep in the dark in place of destruction land of forgetfullnes out of his acquaintance in abhomination shut up for ever In wrath hee rejects and hides his face Hee doth no wonderfull and secret thing his mercey is not revealed Cheth fear prostration and breaches amaseed terrors terrible passions oppression c. Bothe the letters spelt make Pach a Governour Duke or Prince Neh. 5. according to Ie. 48. also a snare which for his adversity hee maketh death and the grave as Ps. 18. Leviticus Nehemiah chap. 5. sheweth by useing the like wordes of this Psalme that hee is the Cryer and Governour and cheeff Prelate heer meant haveing the like occasion in the behalf of the church PSALM LXXXIX THe faithfullnes and kindenes and justice and judgement of the Everlasting by which the heaven and earth and all thrones are built and preserved must bee for ever sung And happy are the people that can delight and bee merry in the presence and light of the Everlasting beeing exalted by him Wher hee hath ordeined the sounding out of his Name And that ther is none to bee comparâ—ed either in heaven or earth to the Eternall for his warlikenes for might or counsell or terror for beating down the proud Nations and scattering of his Enimyes Now haveing exalted David and covenanted with him and sworn that his Throne shal be for ever and his seed after him and that hee would so strengthen him that no enimyes should hurt or oppress him and that hee would make him as deer as his Eldest sonn and give him a supremacey above all the kinges of the Earth and that hee would never take his kindenes from him onely correct him with â—odds for transgression of his Law Now hee noteeth that the Enimye hath the advantage and rejoyce God is angry and breaks his covenant Ierusalem is takeen and layd desolate the crown of his Anointed is cast on the ground the church is in captivity even in their prime their swordes nor their hartes have any edges to battell and his Throne is overturned and hee is abashed and is a reproche to his neighbours and prayeâ—h that hee would no longer now hide his face in his angâ—y dealing thus against them but remember what stripes they bee able to carry and not to make an end of them in his wrath but let them see his salvation in time and redeem them and to think of what continuance they are seeing oppression makes an end of the strongest and what was their Creation worth wâ—thout Redemption and think upon his kindenesses again and faithfull covenant to David and consider all his wayes after this correction and the Reproche that the church putteth up at the handes of thes great Nations their Enimyes that cannot abide his steps Construction Pe a mouth for all kindes of speech covenant swear confess triumph sing be mery with exalt speaking saying falsifying of promiss violating of covenant breaking his word changeing the thing that is gon out of his lipps lying reprocheing c. covenant law Iudgements prescriptions commandements his word or mouth Kindes of mouthes the edge of the sword the hand of hell or mouth Ps. 141. gaps in hedges and breaches in walls thou hast broken down all his walls c. Tet dirt or clay as beating for dust his throne is down and his garland and crown and all his exalting defiled in the ground and abaseed and all Kingdom and honour in the dust and shame and reproche to cover it His song is the Merceyâ—s and miraculous dealing of God and his truthe in promiss which is all his way Ps. 25. his mighty way of salvation rule and assistance See the repetition of kindenes and faythfullnes and wonders for kindenes and walk of divers writeing to bee noteed Mark the eternity and throne of God wher hee sitteth in his word which is his mouth for ever world without end for the wisdom and uprightnes therof Iudgement and Iustice. Leviticus The Seed of the woman shall crush the serpents head Ge. 3. Michael the Archangel of the covenant is cheeff prince and prelate heer Da. 7.10.12 Zac. 3. Ap. 12. Iude. Like Immanuel Is. 7.8 Nu. 13. as by Gods Name of might and strength to help and rule and commande El and Chasin Iah c. Mark the admiration who among the children of the Gods c. who is so mighty a God c. So Mi Ca El signifyeth who is like God Deut 33. cheeff in the congregation and counsell of the holy ones Hee beateth down the grown seas and lofty billows and heads of the Enimyes By his ministry called his Arm and right hand and strength therof which is called his help For this help hee peeked David out of the people to conquer the Enimyes one that no Serpent could prevent Ge. 3. The seed of his doctrine shall bee for ever Mark for the creation of the church the woman out of the Mans side from â—ll the wordes repeated build help before or for finde Enimy for serpent c. beguile c. onely the serpent shall reproche his steps and blaspheme or hurt his heeles Mark still the repâ—tition THE FOVVERTH BOOK PSALM XC COmpareing the age of man with the age of the Church they finde the ods to bee infinite not a wakeing in the night to a thousand yeers which they call but a shower of a sleep that they were in God before the creation and hath lasted ever since without extinguishment His servants bee brought to a few and pounded to dust but hee reviveeth them with sonns and daughters and when they flowerish moste their youthfullnes in iniquity angreth God
blessing and thanking magnifying and extolling the highe Name of the Eternall See the doubling of the word high rais set up above c. Is. 25. Deut. 20. And this also agreeth with Ghimel to requiâ—e or reward How God rewardeth prayer and thanks doe pay for Grace Deuteronomy The Name of God is his Law and his word which shineeth all over the world and the glory therof is compareed to the sunn in his cours Ps. 19. The true consideration heerof and dayly lectureing heerupon and invocation and consulting on the same is as prosperous to the baseer and conteinned sort of people which affect it as the Sunn is to make the grass to flowrish And cheerfull as Sarah for her sonn Isaak and as comfortable to the disconsolate ones See Name multiplyeed See hâ—ghe rais set up the words doubled The rehearsing is by the perpetuall celebration and praising of it It is a Name above all Names 1. Kings 8. Phil. 2. And this is a wonderfull work of kindenes which is his way c. Gods humiliation to respâ—ct them Like a resurrection of them For the Mighty effâ—ct of the Name Iah distributeed to Abram and Sara as before In exalting and multiplyeing of them And these bee the Words heer from Gen. 17. PSALM CXIV THer bee three things that cannot bee satisfyed and the fowerth can never have enough no more can the Law ever bee sufficiently glorifyed by sens and enriched by interpretation wherof ther is no end This psalme sheweth by way of example the effect of understanding the former When Israel had obteined the blessing and was redeemed from a base bondage and miserable slavery to bee great Lordes and Conquerors in Canaan and had Iudah for his Church and all Iacob for his Lordship how could they refrain to daunce and sing to see the Gentiles and the Hethen flye and Nations to turn their backs and kingdomes and Dominions to quake at their comming as Ps. 77. and presence of the God of Iacob that turneth hard placees of scriptures into smooth and easy doctrine for the hardnes of the letter such was the commotion and horrour of the Nations But for the spirituall sens it serveth for rejoyceing to the church for depth of imagination and greatnâ—s of his workes as Ps. 92. Also when the hard harts of savage men bee melted into water and tempered that they becom docible and affable and tractable by hearing the word And not continue as at Meribah Ps. 95. full of provokeing when all shadowes fly away and they continue with him with whom ther is no shadowing or varying or turning out of all horrour or fear or trouble or trembling in the holsom doctrine and righteousnes of the Law and cleer expositions and interpretation therof by separating and by putting away all confusion therby According to the Creation of sea and dry land Gen. 1. For uncovering to the Creator and rejoyceing before him Construction Quoph of Jaquaph to fetch a compass to com about again or returne Which is signifyed by Israel and Iacob repeated for their return likewise for the turning back of the river the daunceing of the hills and turning round of the earth for their comming home fullfilling the promiss the supplanting tripping of theÌ„ overthrowing and subverting turning the rocks c. contrary to the work in the former For all things are made to turn their cours clene contrary the mountains to moove the rocks to flow and rivers run back and the sea to give way Ex. 15. Gen. 15.46 Is. 11.43.48 Hab. 3. Jod a hand for bancks or shores or sides Daleth a door for turning backward and see the repetition of the words Iudah had the leading and commande Iohovah for mercy is not but Adon for Lord and rule Deuteronomy Hee mentioneth heer 4. mighty miracles in correcting of the creation at his pleasure for no cours nor estate is able to resist God his presence which hee promissed for a conductor in all the travail or keep his place or his way It is so terrible that no creature can abide it Iacobs own presence is also wonderfull which of so few as 70. in fower hundred yeeres grew to an army of six hundred thousand beside the women and children and aged It might fright the country wher they came and make them horred and their hair to stand upright to behold them c. What is it that a great Commander cannot New Lords new lawes and all upside-down And such are the wordes and Acts here ment as before in the Construction PSALM CXV NOtwithstanding the rejoyceing of the Church for the recovering of Canaan injoyeing the blessing and promiss yet in this Psalme they forget not to give all the glory therof to God and to his Name as Psal. 29.44 for his wonderfull works of kindenes and faithfullnes as Ps. 92. For his helping and defending of them in all distresses for remembring of them beeing in misery and blessing of them with the inheritance promissed Psal. 2. The cheeff strength and glory of the song the makeer of heaven and earth and owner of the highest heavens and of all the senses disposeer of the earth and dwelleth in heaven and doth whatsoever hee pleaseth That all the whole church both Laity and clergey and all that fear him or Profess him hee may bless all litle and great and much more abundantly them and their childeren after them in reproche of the heathen and their sensles Images that can doo nothing nor have their five wits or any witt about them And therfor becaus they that are worn out and are dead and are buryed in their travail can not prais him they that bee alive resolve to bless him and wish to prais him for ever In which Psalme is found the whole profession of godlines of faith and confession and thanks giveing of Glory and prayer and prais c. Spiritually to the Law of God and righteousnes therof and judgement therin that hath every point of atteinment conteined in it bee ascribeed this help and defence remembrance and blessing as Psal. 66. To the which therfor and in which bee the glory confidence and prais that hee wisheth the imployment of the senses which Imagees neither know nor doo therfor all the senses and wayes of blessing and prais bee ascribeed therunto Becaus for Idolatry the Heathen are turned out of doores and the Church for the fear of God and reverence of his Law are redeemed and made Heires that they give all glory therunto and put their trust in the righteousnes therof and commend it Becaus all the Senses are to bee implyed for judgement and the whole wisedom of Man resteth in the Law the Law is to bee glorifyed with all might And becaus by wisedom blessings are obteined it self is to bee re-applyed in all afflictions and to bee blessed for ever from the creation of heaven and earth Gen. 1. And this for the foolery of Idolatry that slayeth the Church with greeff Psalm 42.44