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A35943 A brief explication of the last fifty Psalmes from Ps. 100 to the end / by David Dickson ... Dickson, David, 1583?-1663. 1654 (1654) Wing D1394A; ESTC R31324 283,150 402

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unto them not only 〈◊〉 what is given to the world but also above what is given to the visible members of the Church who are not as yet converted whereunto some reasons or motives unto the obedience of these exhortations are added Vers. 1. PRaise ye the LORD sing unto the LORD a new song and his praise in the Congregation of the Saints From the first two exhortations Learn 1. The elect regenerate or true believers have a song of their own for mercies proper to them beside the praise which they have to give for the Lords work round about them and therefore they have a proper reason to praise God for their own particular Praise ye the Lord. 2. The song of the redeemed elect and converted is a new song which shall never wax old nor be cut off an everlasting song Sing unto the Lord a new song 3. It is Gods ordinance that the worshippers of the Lord should have assemblies and meetings wherein publickly and joyntly they may glorifie the Lord in proclaiming cheerfully his praise Sing his praise in the congregation of the Saints Vers. 2. Let Israel rejoyce in him that made him let the children of Sion be joyful in their King From the third and fourth exhortation Learn 1. It is the Lords command that his people rejoyce in himselfe with a joy above all the joy which they can have in the creatures which God hath given to them that they may the more chearfully praise him Let Israel rejoyce in him 2. The Church of the elect and renewed Saints is the special workmanship of Gods grace not only as his creatures but also as his new creatures created in Christ Jesus unto good works Let Israel rejoyce in him that made him 3. The Church is a peculiar Kingdome by it selfe whereof God is King in a peculiar way able to govern his people by his Word discipline and Spirit and to defend his Church and all his own ordinances therein to the comfort of all the true members thereof Let the children of Sion be joyful in their King Vers. 3. Let them praise his Name in the dance let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp From the fifth and sixth exhortation to praise God Learn 1. The joy of the believer is a great and growing joy arising from rejoycing in the former verse to exulting in this verse signified by dancing Let them praise his Name in the dance 2. The joy of the godly is a compleat joy imploying all and filling all the power● of the soul signified by musical instruments used in the paedagogy of the old Church Let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp Ver. 4. For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people he will beautifie the meek with salvation Of these exhortations he giveth two reasons Whence learn 1. The Lord loveth believers and repenteth not but resteth in his love and taketh pleasure in his workmanship upon them The Lord taketh pleasure in his people 2. The constancy of the Lords love towards his people is the ground of the Churches constant joy in God and perpetual praising of him Let them sing praises to him with the timbrel and the harp for the Lord taketh pleasure in his people 3. Whatsoever matter of joy believers or true Saints have in God yet they are acquainted with as much affliction in the world as emptieth them of rejoycing in themselves humbleth them and subdueth their spirits and maketh them to aime and endeavour without fretting or grudging to digest all the Lords dispensations toward them and for this cause the believers or Saints are called meek 4. Albeit the affliction wherewith the godly are acquainted doth obscure their blessednesse and hide the beauty thereof before the world yet God in love to them oft-times wipeth off the black and blemish of affliction by giving them glorious deliveries and at length he giveth to them full salvation He will beautifie the meek with salvation Vers. 5. Let the Saints be joyful in glory let them sing aloud upon their beds 6. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword be in their hand From the seventh eighth and ninth exhortations to praise God Learn 1. The godly or true members of the Church are Gods favourites endued with grace accepted through the beloved yea and are good to such as they live among for so much doth the word Saints import 2. The believer may be joyfull now for the glory hoped for and may glory in the promised blessednesse as if it were already possessed Let the Saints be joyfull in glory 3. The joy allowed upon the Saints is a lasting joy both day and night a joy which when they are most retired may be most injoyed which being examined in secret shall be found solid a joy full of quiet rest and peace as if they were ●esting in their beds a joy which shall continue with them when their bodies are lying in the grave for thus much may the words beare in divers respects Let them sing aloud upon their beds 4. The praises of God set down in his Word wherein the Lords Name and attributes the Lords promises and glorious wo●ks especially done in favour of his Saints are set down are the matter of the Saints confidence gloria●ion and joy worthy to be talked of and openly declared in the audience of others for the glory of God and edification of people for what the Lord is to wit wise powerfull mercifull just c. that the Lord is for his people and for every believer in him and therefore Let the high praises of the Lord be in their mouth 5 As the Word of God wherein Gods praises are set down is the matter and warrant of the Saints joy and confidence in God so also is it a powerfull weapon to overturn all adversaries power whatsoever both bodily and spiritual Let the p●●ises of God be a two-edged sword in their hand Vers. 7. To execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishments upon the people 8. To binde their kings with chaine and their nobles with fetters of iron 9. To execute upon them the judgement written This honour have all his Saints Praise ye the LORD By way of motive unto the obedience of the former exhortations to rejoyce in God and glorifie him he subjoyneth a speciall use of the praises of God set down in Scripture in relation to enemies and persecutors of the Saints over whom all believers have a spiritual victory by faith in God so that as the Lords Officers they may pronounce doom and sentences condemnatory against all their enemies great and small according as the Scripture giveth them warrant And this doom and sentence of judgement pronounced by the believer whether in his own minde or vocally as occasion offereth must have execution undoubtedly following upon it according to what is written in the Scripture and this is no small honour allowed upon the Saints Whence learn 1. The elect and regenerate
godly persecuted nor hinder their accesse unto God or Gods befriending of them for so teacheth the Psalmist But do thou for me O God the Lord. 2. It concerneth God in his glory as to punish his foes so to defend his friends and children Do thou for me for thy Names sake 3. The plea of the believer is not his own goodness but the readiness of Gods mercy unto Supplicants Because thy mercy is good deliver thou me 4. Because God is good and merciful therefore he will not suffer his own to perish in their affliction Because thy mercy is good deliver thou me 5. Before the Lord do comfort his children in their affliction he bringeth them to the sense of their own insufficiency and of their need of his help and when this poverty of spirit is given it is a fore runner of delivery Deliver thou me for I am poor and needy 6. As the Lord by affliction doth waken the sense of sin and wound the mans spirit so is he a ready Physician to the contrite Deliver thou me for my heart is wounded within me 7. This mortal life is like a shadow and when affliction is superadded to mortality mans life is like the shadow of the evening which is speedily stretched forth til it vanish and when a Saint is in this condition he may expect the fruit of Gods compassion as here Deliver me for I am gone like a shadow when it declineth 8. The children of God must not look for any certain dwelling place but to be driven to and fro by persecution as the winde maketh the locust to leap from place to place I am tossed up and down as the locust 9. The grief of the godly under persecutio● may overcome the natural comfort of meat and drink and bring their body to wasting leannesse My knees are weak through fasting and my flesh faileth of fatnesse 10. As it is usual for the wicked to mock the godly being brought low by persecution so there is no part of the crosse more heavie to the godly then derision I became also a reproach unto them when they looked upon me 11. That which God doth threaten for a curse on the wicked may for the point of outward calamity fall upon the dearest children of God as what is threatened Deut 28. in sundry things is here found on the persecuted childe of God I became a reproach unto them they shaked their heads Vers. 26 Help me O LORD my God O save me according to thy mercy 27. That they may know that this is thy hand that thou LORD hast done it 28. Let them curse but blesse thou when they arise let them be ashamed but let thy servant rejoyce 29. Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle He prayeth again for help and addeth more reasons especially this reason that so the difference of Gods dealing with his servants and with his foes may the better appear Whence learn 1. As trouble is lengthened and lyeth on so must prayer be repeated and insisted upon as here Help me O Lord my God and save me according to thy mercy 2. When the Lords children do perceive that Gods honour is obscured by their suffering they become no lesse desirous to have God restored to his honour then to have themselves delivered from trouble Save me that they may know that this is thy hand that thou Lord hast done it 3. Albeit the Lord be the inflicter of the troubles of the godly for their trial and for manifestation of his truth toward them and grace in them yet the world cannot perceive this till God lift up the hand of his own out of trouble Save me that they may know that this is thy hand and that thou Lord hast done it 4. When God sheweth himself reconciled to a soul light ariseth in trouble to let them see both their own relief and the overthrow of their adversaries as here is shewen in the proposition of the condition of the godly and their enemies 5. It matters not what the enemie speak against the godly so long as God approveth them yea the more the enemie be despiteful the more will the Lord be kinde to his servants Let them curse but blesse thou 6. When the controversie between the godly and their persecutors cometh before the Lord to be judged shame shall cover the face of the persecutor and Gods childe shall rejoyce When they arise to wit for pleading of their cause let them be ashamed but let thy servant rejoyce 7. The pretences whereby the wicked deceive their own consciences in persecuting the Saints shall be their sin and their shame and confusion Let mine adversaries be cloathed with shame and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle Ver. 30. I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth yea I will praise him among the multitude 31. For he shall stand at the right hand of the poore to save him from those that condemne his soule He closeth his prayer and the Psalme comfortably Whence learn 1. Albeit the persecuted children of God be put to mourning and prayer for a time yet the issue of their exercise shall be joy and praise For I will greatly praise saith the Supplicant here 2. It is not unusual to God to make the delivery of his children manifest before the people who were witnesses of their hard usage by the wicked and to make his servants to proclaim his praise with their own mouth I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth yea I will praise him among the multitude 3. As Satan v. 6. shal stand at the right hand of the Persecutor both to drive him on to perdition in his sin and then to accuse him torment him for it so shall the Lord stand at the right hand of his persecuted servants in their lowest condition to strengthen them under their trouble and to deliver them out of it For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor to save him from them that condemn his soul. 4. Albeit the experience of the promised delivery be not yet come yet the foresight of it by faith in Gods Word and gracious nature is sufficient cause of joy to the persecuted Saint and matter of praise unto God I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth for he shall stand at the right hand of the poor to save him PSALME CX THis Psalme containeth the doctrine of Christ God and man in one person concerning his everlasting Kingdom and Priesthood whose Kingdom albeit begun to be manifested among the Jewes yet was to be extended unto the Gentiles with great success v. 1 2 3 As for his Priesthood he is setled therin for ever by an Oath v. 4. and that with the overthrow of his enemies how great or many soever v. 5 6. yet not without Christs sufferings by which he was first to be humbled and then to be exalted v. 7.