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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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of the kinde for when some of the kinde are dying from time to time others are quickened and put in their room Whence learn 1. There is a natural instinct in all the living creatures in their want to wait on Gods providence which men may observe in them although the brute creatures know not this and cannot reflect upon their own inclinations For the Psalmist speaking of all living creatures no lesse then of the fishes he saith These all wait on thee that thou mayest give them their meat 2 So long as God will have any creature to live he provideth timously enough for its food They wait for thee that thou mayest give them their meat in due season 3. Gods providence reacheth to the least bit of food which any living creature meeteth with That thou givest them they gather 4 The Lord is liberal in his dispensation and feede h● all the creatures abundantly so long as he will have them to live Thou openest thy hand they are filled with good 5. The Lord demonstrates himself to be the fountain of life and that the living creatures do hold their life of him as well by the sickening and weakening of the living creatures as by the feeding and strengthening of them For when God withdraweth in any measure the wonted influence of his power from them then they finde a change to the worse Thou hidest thy face from them they are troubled 6. God hath no lesse special hand in ●emoving life then in giving of it Thou takest away their breath they die and return to their dust 7. Albeit the Lord take away the life of all individual living creatures yet he preserveth the species and kind of every liling creature by making new ones and raising them up in the roome of those that are taken away Thou sendest forth thy Spirit they are created 8. The same Spirit which created the world in the beginning worketh yet powerfully in forming new creatures continually Thou sendest out thy Spirit they are created 9. The Lord puts a new face as it were upon the earth from time to time partly by Spring-time and Summer every year partly by young living creatures in their several generations one after another and all these things do contribute to his renewed praise Thou renewest the face of the earth Ver. 31. The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever the LORD shall reioyce in his works 32. He looketh on the earth and it trembleth he toucheth the hills and they smoke In the last place is the conclusion wherein he addeth yet more reasons for praising of God and then maketh sundry uses of the former Doctrine He taketh up all that he would say in this That God shall have perpetual glory from the works of his goodness and power Whence learn 1. The end of all the workmanship of God is Gods glory and he is worthy of glory for his work and shall not want his glory from his works for ever The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever 2. As the Lord saw all his work in the beginning to be good so in the closing thereof he shall see all that he hath done to be good and nothing properly to be repented of whatsoever he hath done The Lord shall rejoyce in his works 3. As the Lord is bountiful to his creatures so also is he terrible to the strongest of them that he may be feared as well as loved and praised He looketh on the earth and it trembleth he toucheth the hills and they smoak 4. The signes of his terrible power which he hath actually manifested in shaking of the earth and kindling of the mountaines do bear witnesse how powerful and terrible the Lord is He looketh on the earth and it trembleth he toucheth the hills and they smoak Ver. 33. I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live I will sing praise to my God while I have my being 34. My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the LORD 35. Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more blesse thou the LORD O my soule Praise ye the LORD Here he setteth down the uses of this Doctrine which are five teaching us so many Doctrines For the first use here he bindeth upon himself an obligation joyfully to praise God for ever teaching us to do the same when we consider the Lords works I will sing unto the Lord so long as I live I will sing praise to my God while I have any being 2. For the second use of this Doctrine he promiseth to himself joy and gladnesse in the discharge of the work of Gods praise which teacheth us how profitable it is to our selves to praise God Nothing more sweet to a Believer then to be about the glorifying of God and beholding the matter of his praise My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord. 3. For the third use he denounceth wrath and destruction unto the contemners of God who do not regard his glory but do stand out as common enemies of God and of all his workmanship which teacheth us that such as do not j●yne with Gods children in glorifying of God but go on in transgressing of his commands and abusing of his creatures sh●ll be separated from the society of Gods servants unto which judgement every Beleever must subscribe as very righteous Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more 4. For the fourth use he stirreth up himself to blesse the Lord for his own particular who had found favour to be no more of the numbe● of Gods enemies but among the Lords servants whereby he teacheth those whom God has called from the state of sin unto his holy service to stir up ●hemselves to thanksgiving Blesse thou the Lord O my soul. 5. For the fifth use he calleth upon all other Beleevers and exhorteth them to praise God and teacheth us that every one according to their place should stirre up another unto the honouring of God Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CV THe first part of this Psalme was sung at the carrying up of the Ark of God to the City of David 1 Chron. 16.8 The whole containeth an exhortation to the Church of Israel to praise God for his mercies shewen towards them with reasons serving to presse the duty The exhortation is set down ver 1 2 3 4 5 6. The reasons are more particularly expressed in the rest of the Psalme the first rank whereof is taken from the Lords covenanting with Abraham Isaac and Iacob and the care which the Lord had of their persons ver 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. The second rank is taken from the care the Lord had of their posterity when he sent them down to Egypt and all the while they were there ver 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25. The third rank is taken from the manner of their delivery out of Egypt when they
in God and to teach what stirring up should be of the affections and powers of our soul and one of another unto Gods worship what harmonie should be among worshippers of God what melodie each should make in himself singing to God with grace in his heart and to shew the excellency of Gods praise which no meanes nor instrument nor any expression of the body joyned thereto could sufficiently set forth and thus much is figured forth in these exhortations to praise God with Trumpet Psaltery Harp Timbrel Dance stringed instruments and Organs loud and high sounding Cymbals Ver. 6. Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD Praise ye the LORD In the twelfth exhortation pointing at the party called upon to praise God Learn 1. Living creatures which draw breath and give unto and take from God their life afresh every moment in their breathing do above all visible creatures speak most to the praise of Gods wisdom power in framing and preserving of them Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. 2. Of all living creatures men are most bound to praise God as they in whom God in the Creation and in their several generations from age to age did and doth breath the Spirit of life and of all men those are most bound to praise God on whom he hath bestowed his holy Spirit and howsoever the Lords works in all men shall speak to his praise how wicked soever men shall be yet only renewed souls in whom God hath breathed his Spirit as the word breath in the Original may bear shall voluntarily and sincerely praise God Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. 3. The Spirit of the Lord when he gave the Psalmes to the Church of the Jewes had an eye toward the rest of the world of whom he was in his appointed time to exact this Song of praise and so we who are Gentiles brought unto the society of the Church are bound to joyne in the work with them and when we are joyned and when all who are to be converted are joyned yet are we all too few to bear up this Song of Gods praise and therefore to shew this it is said Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. 4. When we have said all we are able to say for Gods praise we are but to begin again anew for this are we taught by the renewing of the exhortation in the close of sundry Psalmes and here also at the end of all the Psalms Praise ye the Lord. And after us must all the creatures come in their own kinde and order to offer up praise also as we are taught Rev. 5. v. 12. where after that elect Angels and Saints whose number was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands had sung their Song saying With a loud voice Worthy is the Lamb that was slaine to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing Then it followeth v. 13. And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea and all that are in them heard I saying Blessing Honour Glory and Power be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lambe for ever and ever FINIS BOOKS newly printed by RALPH SMITH Master HVTCHESONS Exposition of Obadiah Ionah Micah Nahum Habakkuk and Zephaniah A Practical Discourse of Prayer shewing the Duty Necessity and the several sorts of Prayer by Mr. THOMAS COBBET The CHRISTIANS CHARTER shewing the Priviledge of Believers the third Edition very much inlarged by Mr. WATSON Minister of Stephens Walbrook Also Mr. WATSONS Treatise of CHRISTIAN CONTENTMENT the second Edition