of his everlasting truthe and his word hath conquered for them as psal 18. and his gentlenes of doctrine hath excelled and prevailed over them and fitteth on them ps 29. the Church now wher kindenes truthe aboundeth seven times a day yea infinitely doo wish the nations and the heathen to prais him and commend him for his kindenes with a book of commendations for it for growing of the word of God and waters of the Law through them and among them as the number of clean creatures for the pureitey of language and preferment of a pure profession ps 19. becaus ther is so excellent reward of truth and kindenes the way of Godlynes psal 25. Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass is heer the mercy of the Eternall whose property is salvation for the compassing and saveing of them and pardoning of the Godly Which is ment the compassing waters by the nations and people heathen of one kinde and the waters of kindenes and truth another kinde And the wordes to abound or flow over and asswage Iod the second letter from Iadah to flow and so from Hodah to confess heer for prais and commend severall words of one sens so that the sens is doubled as Shabach to allay the flood And bothe agreâ— with Iod to confess or publish preach or celebrate for a note of repetition Zain the third letter is for the auditory to hear For hearing is supposed by great commendation prais and confession and often repetition Deuteronomy The Deuterosy and recitation heer is the buissines of prais and commendations of the way of God and the wonderfull abundance and riches of his grace upon them Ps. 103. Rom. 5.6 Eph. 1.2 This hee would have the nations take notice of How greatly his mercy and fidelity and waters of life exceeded over them By the name Iehovah which hath heer a new division into How and Iah as in termination Eli-jahu Ieshang-jahu c. also by inchoation as in Ie-hosuang Ie-hoseph c. for assistance Achaz-jah Jeho-shaphat Io-nadab c. For addition PSALM CXVIII HEe now propounds in this Psalme the Cup which he promissed as Ps. 116. of the waters of life freely to the Church out of the Law filled from Psal. 92. with the benefit of the worship of God and invocation of his Name and the worthynes of his reward to God for all even faith through which hee feareth not the threats nor looks of his Enimyes which is more worth then any confidence in man Therfor when hee is infinitely besett and afflicted and corrected hee findes life and salvation in the word of God and calling upon his name by works of strange success and kindenes from him as the whole Church can witnes whom hee willeth to worship God therfor And all his testimony shall bee of his salvation which is true and his oâ—ely note and song perpetually of his strange deliverance Ps. 143. This is the song of salvation that hee goeth into the Church to worship with and his invocation upon the Law in the Psalm following when the Church with great admiration and joy doe entertain salute and bless him with a Hosanna wishing all prosperity in the Church for comming in the name of the everlasting God And the better to welcom him and that God may the better accept of him and shine unto them they sacrifice to him that hee may worship and extoll the Almighty his God Hee now greets the Church with a Salve or Ave hail or wassail and cup of salvation by entring the Ministry and becomming a Preacher of righteousnes which was strange unto them For because of the uncleannes of his hands and impurity of his hart as Psal. 15.24.51 rejoiceing at the mercyes of God in him thâ—y wish all blessing and prosperity of the same as Ps. 15.2.4 with the like congratulation for the Church And that they had fed upon the rest therof in remembrance and token of their full and mighty redemption and great salvation from God so that the whole Church may confess the everlasting kindenes of God and worship him Because his throne is the right hand of God as psal 110. and the right hand of God is the Ministry and that is the word of God and that is judgement and Iustice mercey and fidelity as psal 89. the conqueror truthe the written word that rideeth upon the white hors and fighteth valiantly from which oracle all victory and succour proceedeth and all battailes are the Lords and the discipline his hee now exalteth greatly the dexâ—erousnes and prosperity therof And prayeth for an open door of the righteousnes of the Law and knowledge of the word that hee may enter into the service of him and extoll him and finde the way to pleas him That his testimony and song and burden of his song bee nothing but the everlasting kindenes and salvation of God and the faithfull recording testifying therof in presence of his saintes as psal 149. and with the help of them Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass or inviron Heer are divers kindes of compassing helping afflicting helping in thes wordes kindenes that is continuall help and salvation grace to help Heb. 4. Tit. 2. Eph. 1.2 It is of this sort God is by him and present with him allwayes The Eternall is with mee c. hee is the onely relye and trust and confidence they compass him c. but by his invocation hee circumcised them and cutt them off Mark the doubling of the wordes and kindes of compassing nations bees and circumcideing c. Iod for a hand by the right hand doubled Jod to confess and publish by worship Cheth to prostrate to cast down c. Ier. 23. the three letters Quiach of Quoach to take or receive are intended by the gates entertainment hearing and welcom in his name and also by the term of rejection or refuseing Hee prayes God to bid him welcom out of his word and the hous of God Gen. 28. Mark the repetition wee beseech thee give salvation bid God save you bid God prosper you wee bless c. Deuteronomy Gods everlasting kindenes in his word is an eternall liveing and food for human men mighty matters and wonderfull are don by his name and his right hand for which hee is to be worshiped Therfor for his recitation heer hee useeth the wordes worship declare exalt extoll say beseech c. sonet and loud voice for the mightynes of his Acts of salvation The term Almighty is doubled and also the abreviation Iah for Iehovah and Iehovah the Eternall six and twenty times according to the letters Iehovah for the mightynes of his salvation and kindenes Psal. 136. to shew the same and how beneficiall God hath allwayes been to his people by his Name Exo. 33. Mark the terms repeated PSALM CXIX THe door of righteousnes is a strait gate and prayer is a narrow entrance and the way of life is hard to finde and principles are the surest keyes therfor
of the ETERNALL by which the RIGHTEOVS ONES doe enter That I may vvorship thee for thou hast Afflicted mee and hast been my SALVATION The stone that the builders refused is becom the head corner stone This is from the ETERNALL and it is Miraculous in our eyes This day hath the ETERNALL brought that vve may Triumph and Reioyce in it Wee beseech thee giue Salvation O ETERN Wee beseech thee O ETERN giue prosperity Blessed bee hee that coÌ„meth in the NAME of the ETERN wee blesse you out of the House of the ETERN And that the ALL MIGHTY GOD the ETERNALL may Shine vnto vs Tye your Festivals vvith cordes to the hornes of the Altar that J may vvorship thee ô my ALMIGHTY and extoll the ô my GOD. Worship the ETERNALL because hee is GRATIOVS and because his LOVEING KINDENES is for euer CXIX A. HAPPY are they that are of a PERFECT WAY that vvalk in the LAVV of the ETERNALL Happy are they that obserue his TESTIMONYS and seek him with the whole hart and walke in his wayes yea and doe noe wrong to obserue dilligently thy VISITINGS which thou hast commanded I would to God my Wayes wear stedfast to keep thy PRESCRIPTIONS that then I might not be abashed when I looke vpon thy COMMANDEMENTS and I might worship thee with a right hart when I haue lerned thy JVDGEMENTS ô that I may keep thy PRECRIPTIONS ô leaue mee not vtterly B. O how shall a yong man keep clean his way To obserue it according to thy Word I seek thee with all my hart ô let mee not misse of thy COMMENDEMENTS I hide thy SAYINGS in my minde that I may not sinn against thee ô ETERNALL thou blessed one teach mee thy PRESCRIPTIONS I reckon with my lips all the SENTENCES of thy mouth J ioy in the WAY of thy TESTIMONYS as aboue all welth J talk of thy PRECEPTS and behold thy WAYES J haue Delight in thy STATVTES and forget not thy WORD G. O deal bountifully with thy Seruant I may liue and that J may keep thy WORD vnfold mine eyes that J may discerne the secrets out of thy LAW J beeing a stranger in in the Earth ô hide not thy COMMANDEMENTS from mee My Soul is beaten out with continuall Appetite to thy JVDGEMENTS Rebuke the cursed Proud that err from thy COMMANDEMENTS and turn from mee Reproch and Contempt for J obserue thy TESTIMONYS Yea when Prince-es sit and speak against mee thy Seruant communeth of thy STATVTS Yea thy TESTIMONYES are my Delightes and my Counseâ—lers D. My soul cleeveth to the dust ô quicken mee according to thy WORD I tell my WAYES and thou hearest mee ô teach mee thy STATVTES Make mee vnderstand the WAY of thy PRECEPTS that J may talke of thy WONDERS My soul droupeth for sorrow O Raise mee again according to thy WORD O take from mee the WAY of falshood and grace mee with thy LAW I choose the WAY of TRVTH I like thy IVDGEMENTS J steek vpon thy TESTIMONYS O ETERNALL make mee not ashame-ed ô inlarge my hart that J may runn the way of thy COMMANDEMENTS H. Teach mee to obserue the way of thy STATVTS to the end giue mee vnderstanding to obserue thy LAW and to keep it with my whole hart Direct mee in the PATH of thy COMMANDEMENTS because I haue pleasure in it Turn my minde to thy TESTIMONYES and not vnto GAINE Take away mine eyes from beholding falshood and revive mee in thy WAY Establish thy SAYING to thy Seruant which is according to thy FEARE Take away my reproche that I feared for thy IVDGEMENTS are pleasant Behold J haue an Appetite to thy PRECEPTS ô revive mee with thy RIGHTEOVSNES V. O let thy LOVING KINDENESES and thy SALVATION com vnto mee according to thy SAYING that I may answer my Reprocher the matter Because I trust in thy WORD and take not the WORD of TRVTH quite out of my mouth for I waite for thy IVDGEMENT That I may keep thy LAW allwayes for world everlasting And I may walk at large for I seek thy PRECEPTS that I may speak of thy TESTIMONYS before Kinges and not be abashed and delight my selfe in thy COMMANDEMENTS which I love and hold vp my hands at thy COMMANDEMENTS which I love and talke of thy STATVTS Z. Remember thy word to thy Servant which thou hast made mee waite for In my Affliction this is my coÌ„fort for thy SAYING reviveth mee The Proud make a mocking stock of mee aboue measure but I decline not from thy Law I remember thy IVDGEMENTS of old O ETERNALL and am comforted When a storm of Wicked men seissed on mee such as forsake thy LAW thy Statuts wear my SONETS in my dwelling House I remember thy NAME in the night O ETERNALL and keep thy LAW This happened to mee for obseruing thy PRECEPTS Ch. ô ETERN my PORTION I Sayd I vvould keep thy vvordes I intreat thee with all my hart pitty mee according to thy Saying I recount my wayes bring again my feet vnto thy TESTIMONYES J make haste and delay not to keep thy COMMANDEMENTS The snares of the wicked are about mee but J forget not thy LAW at midnight J rise to thank thee for thy righteous JVDGEMENTS J am a companion of all them that fear thee such as will keep thy PRECEPTS ô ETERNALL that the Earth is full of thy LOVEING KINDENES teach mee thy STATVTES TH. Deal well with thy Seruant ô ETERNALL according to thy WORD Lern mee the Goodnes of Vnderstanding and Knowledge for J beleeue in thy COMMANDEMENTS Before J was in misery J erred and now J keep thy SAYING ô thou that art good and perfect lern mee thy STATVTS The Proud lay-falshood against mee but J obserue thy PRECEPTS with all the hart Their hart is fat like tallow but J greatly respect thy LAW It was good for mee that I was afflicted that J might lern thy STATVTES I haue more pleasure in the LAW of thy Mouth then in thousands of gold and silver I. Thou that thy handes haue made mee and prepare-ed mee ô teach mee VNDERSTANDING that I may lern thy COMMANDEMENTS That they that fear thee may reioyce when they see it for I wait for thy WORD I know ô ETERNALL that thy IVDGEMENTS be with IVSTICE and that thou
hast very FAYTHFVLLY afflicted mee O let thy LOVING KINDENES be to comfort mee according to thy SAYING to thy Servant O let thy MERCYES com vnto mee that I may live because my greatest Respects are thy LAW O let the Proud be abashed that wrongfully torment mee when I talk of thy PRECEPTS Let such as fear thee and know thy TESTIMONYES com vnto mee Let my hart be wholely in thy STATVTES that I may not be abashed K. My Soul is consumeed for thy SALVATION J wait for thy WORD mine eyes are spent for thy SAYING Saying vvhen vvilt thou comfort mee Though J am like a botle in the smoke yet I forget not thy STATVTES How many are the dayes of thy Servant when wilt thou doe Judgement against my Persecutors The Proud dig pittes for mee which is not according to thy LAW all thy COMMANDEMENTS are TRVTH but they persecute mee wrongfully O help mee Within a little they had made an end of mee in the Earth notwithstanding J forsake not thy PRECEPTS O revive mee according to thy LOV KINDENES that J may keep the TESTIMONYS of thy mouth L. O ETERNALL that thy WORD abideth in Heauen for euer and thy FAYTHFVLLNES standeth for all generations as sure as thou hast made the Earth that they at this day doe stand by thy IVDGEMENTS for they are all thy Servants except thy LAW had been my respects J had then euen perished in mine Affliction J shall neuer forget thy PRECEPTS because by them thou hast revived mee ô saue mee for I am thine for J seek for thy STATVTES The Wicked lay wait for mee to destroy mee and I am lerning to vnderstand thy TESTIMONYES I haue seen an end of all Perfection but thy COMMANDEMENT is exceeding large M. Oh how I love thy LAW for it is my talke all the day By thy COMMANDEMENTS thou hast made mee wiser then mine Enimyes For it is for ever with mee J get more skill then all my Teachers because thy TESTIMONYES are my Meditations J lern more vnderstanding then the Age-ed because I obserue thy PRECEPTS J refraine my feet from all ill wayes that I may keep thy Word I will not depart from thy IVDGEMENTS because thou hast taught mee How sweet are they to my Palat thy SAYING is sweeter then hony to the Palat of my mouth by thy PRECEPTS J lern VNDERSTANDING therfor I hate all wrong wayes N. Thy WORD is a candle to my feet a light vnto my foot path I haue sworne and J will confirm it that I vvill keep thy righteous IVDGEMENTS I am extremely afflicted ô ETERNALL revive mee according to thy WORD ô ETERNALL accept I pray thee the voluntary Offrings of my mouth and teach mee thy IVDGEMENTS My life is allwayes in Danger but I forget not thy LAW The Wicked set a snare for mee but I err not from thy PRECEPTS I inherit thy TESTIMONYES for ever because they are the ioy of my hart And I bend my minde to doe thy PRESCRIPTIONS to the vvorlds end S. I hate Scismes and I love thy LAW ô thou my SHELTER and my SHIELD I waite for thy WORD Away from mee yee Naughty men I may observ the COMMANDEMENTS of my GOD. Support mee according to thy SAYING that I may liue and make mee not ashamed of my HOPE stay mee vp J may be safe by looking allwayes in thy PRESCRIPTIONS Thou ouerthrowest all them that err from thy PRESCRIPTS because their dissembling is falshood Thou takest away the Wicked ones of the Earth like a skum therfor J loue thy TESTIMONYS My flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afrayed because of thy IVDGEMENTS GH I doe righteous IVDGEMENT ô leave mee not to mine Oppressours Gard well thy Servant and let not the Proud oppresse mee Mine eyes are consume-ed for thy SALVATION and for thy Righteous Saying Deal with thy Servant according to thy LOVEING KINDENES and teach mee thy Prescripts I am thy Servant ô lern mee Vnderstanding that I may know thy TESTIMONYES When they should perform it to the ETERNALL they breake thy LAW Therfor doe I loue thy COMMANDEMENTS more then gold more then Paz gold Therfor because of all the PRECEPTS all which J allow all wrong wayes doe J hate P. Wonderfull are thy Testimonyes therfor my Soul observeth them The opening of thy WORDS giueth light and maketh the simple to bee of Vnderstanding I opened my mouth vvith Longing because I had Appetite to thy COMMANDEMENTS O look vpon mee and pitty mee as thy Custom is to them that loue thy NAME Set my feet firm in thy SAYINGS and let noe sorrovv haue Dominion ouer mee Redeem mee from the oppression of men that I may keep thy PRECEPTS Lighten thy FACE vpon thy Seruant and lerne mee thy PRESCRIPTS Riuers of water runn down mine eyes because they keep not thy LAW T S O ETERNALL that art IVST and RIGHT in thy IVDGEMENTS and with exceeding IVSTICE and TRVTH hast commanded thy TESTIMONYES my zeale torments mee because my foes forget thy wordes Thy SAYING is an exceeding tried Saying thy Seruāt loueth it shakē off despised as J am J forget not thy PRECEPTS O thou that thy Righteousnes and thy Law is with Iustice and TRVTH for euer miserable torments haue found mee but my whole Respects are thy COMMANDEMENTS ô thou that thy Testimonys are with Iustice for euer giue mee Vnderstanding that J may live Q. I Call with all my hart O ETERN answer mee J that obserue thy Prescripts J CALL thee ô Saue mee and J keep thy TESTIMONYES J am present in the Twilight shouteing because I wait for thy WORD Mine eyes prevent the Night waches that J may muse vpon thy SAYING Hear my voyce O ETERNALL according to thine accustomed LOVEING KINDENES and revive mee When the followers of Mischeeff approched which wear far from thy LAW ô thou ETERNALL most nighe and all thy COMMANDEMENTS are TRVTH by thy TESTIMONYES I knew before because thou hast founded them for ever R. O see mine Affliction and release mee because J forget not thy LAW Defend my quarell and ransom mee and by thy SAYING revive mee SALVATION is far frō the Wicked because they seek not thy PRESCRIPTS ô ETERNALL that thy MERCYES are great after thy IVDGEMENTS revive mee When my Persecutors and Afflictors are many
I decline not from thy TESTIMONY When I saw Transgressors which kept not thy Saying I was exceedingly greeved ô mark how I love thy PRECEPTS and according to thy LOVEING KINDENES revive mee The beginning of thy WORD is TRVTH and every one of thy IVST DECREES is for ever SH When Prince-es persecuted mee for nothing and my hart was afrayed because of thy WORD I ioyed concerning thy SAYING as a man that had found a great Booty I hate and abhore falshood and I love thy LAW Seven times a day I praise thee for thy RIGHTEOVS IVDGEMENTS ther is great PEACE to them that love thy LAW And ther is nothing shall offend them I hope for thy SALVATION because J doe thy COMMANDEMENTS My Soul keepeth thy TESTIMONYES and I love them exceedingly I keep thy COMMISSIONS and thy TESTIMONYS because all my wayes are before thee T. O ETERNALL let my SOVND com before thee and according to thy WORD giue mee VNDERSTANDING let my Request com before thee and according to thy Saying deliver mee And that my lips may vtter Prayse ô teach mee thy PRESCRIPTIONS and my tonge report thy SAYING for all thy COMMANDEMENTS are IVST Let thy hand be to help mee for J make choise of thy PRECEPTS J long for thy SALVATION O ETERNALL thy LAW being my cheeff Respect That my Soul may PRAYSE thee as long as it liueth because thy IVDGEMENTS have holpen mee J goe astray like a lost sheep ô seek out thy Servant for J forget not thy COMMANDEMENTS CXX A Song of Gradations IN my Affliction I CALLED vnto the ETERNALL to hear mee ô ETERNALL deliver my Soul from false Lippes and a deceiptfull Tong. What shall it giue vnto thee and what shall it bring vnto thee a deceiptfull Tong sharp Arrovves of a strong man vvith hot Juniper coles VVoe is mee that I have sojourned in Meshek and dvvelt vvith the Tentes of Kedar my Soul hath dvvelt her ther to long vvith him that hate-eth PEACE For vvhen J speake of PEACE they are for vvarr CXXI A Song of Gradations SHALL I lift vp mine eyes to the Hilles from whence shall my HELP com My Help is from the ETERNALL maker of Heaven and Earth O let him not suffer thy foot to slip nor let him slomber that keepeth thee Behold hee vvill neither slombe◠nor sleep that keepeth Jsrael The ETERNALL that keepeth thee vvill be a Shadovv at thy Right hand that the Sunn smite thee not by day nor the moon by night The ETERNALL vvill Keep thee and preserue thy life from all evill the ETERNALL vvill preserue thy going out and thy comming in from this time and for euer CXXII A Song of Gradations of DAVID I Reioyce-ed when they SAYD to mee Let vs goe to the House of the ETERNALL and our feet shall stand in thy gates ô Jerusalem Jerusalem that is built like a Citty vvell pack together vvith it self Because thither goe vp the Tribes the Tribes of the ETERN and the whole Testimony of Israel to worship the NAME of the Eternall for ther they sit in Trones for Iudgement the THRONES of the House of David wish PEACE with Ierusalem that they may prosper that love thee Let PEACE be in thy Trenches and Prosperity in thy Palaces for my Bretheren and friends sakes I vvish PEACE in thee for the House of the ETERNALL our GOD his sake J vvish thee vvell CXXIII A Song of Gradations VNTO thee I lift vp mine eyes ô thou Dweller in the Heavens Behold as the eyes of men Servantes are to the hand of their maisters as the eyes of a maide to the hand of her Mistresse so are our eyes to the ETER our GOD vntill hee shall Pitty vs. Pitty vs pitty vs O ETERN for wee are very full of Contempt our Soul is to full to it self of the skornfull Contempt of Idle and haughty men CXXIV A Song of Gradations of DAVID NOT for the ETERNALL that was with vs may Israel now SAY not for the ETERNALL that was with vs when men rose vp against vs even then they had swellowed vs vp alive when their Anger burned against vs. Then the waters had overflowed vs and the Current runn over our Soules then had a stream of swelling waters gon clean over our Soules Blessed be the ETERNALL that hath not given vs a prey to their teeth Our Soul is escape-ed like a bird from the fowlers Snare The Snare is broken and wee are escape-ed Our HELP is in the NAME of the ETERNALL the make-er of Heaven and Earth CXXV A Song of Gradations THEY that trust in the ETERNALL are like Mount Sion that shall not be moved but abide for ever The Hills are round about Jerusalem and the ETERNALL is round about his People from this time and for euer For ther shall noe vvicked shaft rest by the Lot of the RIGHTEOVS Because the Righteous set not their hands to any wrong Be good O ETERN to the good and vpright in their hartes and they that turn their crooked wayes let the ETERN make them walke with them that work the sorrow that Peace may bee vpon Israel CXXVI A Song of Gradations WHEN the ETERN brought again the captivity of Sion wee wear like men in a Dream Then wear our mouthes full of LAVGHTER and our tongs with SONETS Then SAYD they among the Hethen The ETERN hath don much among these men The ETERNALL hath don great things with vs and wee reioyce-ed ô ETERNALL bring our captivity again like the Rivers in the South That they that sowe with teares may reap with Songs that hee that went out weeping bearing his seedleep may com againe with SONETS bringing his sheaves CXXVII A Song of Gradations of Salomon IF the ETERNALL build not the house in vaine doe the builders therof labour in it If the ETERNALL keep not the Citty in vain doe the Warders wach It is in vain to you that yee rise vp early and sit down late and eat your meat with cares seeing hee giveth his BELOVED rest Behold children and the fruit of the womb are an hereditary reward of the ETERNALL As arrovves in a strongmans hand so are the Children of youth Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be abashed vvhen they talk vvith their enimyes in the gate
Law of Moses is to trick out and express the righteousnes of Abraham it must not forget his faith nor his love nor his bountifullnes and giftes of the minde that last for ever Iudgement fidelity and mercy the weighty matters as Psal. 112. but in one Ceremony or other precept or complement the whole man must be thought upon as well for grace and adoption as for judgement and condemnation as Ps. 101. seeing life is promissed to the observers And this part of the Law is that which Christ in the new Testament so much preferreth as uprightnes and cleernes of the inner man which is the absolute holynes and perfection of godlynes the way to grace which hee requireth Wherby a man seemeth to bee divided against himself the flesh against the spirit grace becommeth opposit to workes as the Apostle sheweth by division of the Law And this is Christes fullfilling of the Law and baptisme of the holy Ghost that angered the Iewes and sett all the world on fire beeing beyond the comun understanding In this Psalme hee cometh to the kingdom and citty of their great king and defendour their God of righteousnes in the last Psalme this is Ierusalem their university mount Sion his holy hill the school of all godlynes and virtue and of the Law of God The Law shall com forth of Sion and the word of God out of Ierusalem c. Now as all types of holynes were to bee moste glorious for worship and majesty as Psal. 45.145.111 So the Iewes for fame of their religion would have the place like the tabernacle to excell So that all the world might take delight in the structure and order of the temple and Synagogue of Ierusalem this theatre and oracle of the Law and stage wher the word is acted more then the Queen of the South took in the sitting of Salomons servantes Wher two or three are gathered togeter in my name ther am I in the midst of them so experience hath taught them and assureth the Church that Gods love is allwayes in his Temple where his service is and never away from them that fear him And shewing first the greatnes of God in this place for his dayly worship and his fame his name calling upon him their munition his presence and releeff upon their Batlementes Psal. 56. by confounding their enimyes his kindenes in his temple which is better then life as Ps. 63. his fame praise over all the world and because hee doth nothing but Iustice with his right hand and scepter of his lerned ministry that breaketh all the heathen in peeces as Ps. 2. that Sion and all Iudah may be glad of his judgements they would not have this place ever forgotten For that this is the very God their only God that hath saved them from death And therfor likewise they will haue no other God but him for ever As in the former Psalmes according to the Tabernacle Exod. 36. wherin the love of God was dayly resident Construction Mem waters for the Citty and Godly policy therof the habitation of Godlynes and holynes Is. 33.48 of kindenes and Iustice and Iudgement the waters of the Law The letter Cheth to break or terrify by the ship-wrack and astonishment of the Enimy Macha applauding Zach. 12. as of the Citty and of the townes of Iudah Or Machah for abolishing as of the Enimy Ps. 9. in the contrary by Sapper to register or tell or write up for Is. 33. to book and not to blot out Marck the repetition and resounding of the termes Exodus Heer is the dwelling of the great God and righteous King the King of Salem and Sion Ps. 76. heer is the place of blessing heer hence righteousnes doth flow and salvation is all about it and God doth lead men from death as a kinde of passover For another Name of God The God of Shem Gen. 9. of renowm and fame foâ— Iustice even Melchisedeq an other of Gods Ministers Sacrificer of the most high God Gen. 14. Heeris the Altar of God and heer is the Priesthood and place of service and sacrifice which Israel in Aegypt so much desired Exo. 7.8.9 according to the promiss to return to and to make mery at and the Name of the Citty is Ther is the Eternall Ezech. 48. as the Name Iehovah the Eternall is Righteousnes PSALM XLIX THe wisdom and understanding of this Prable which hee would have all the world to know is this The vanity of riches to be trusted in and of the Owners their foolish wayes that glory in them and their disappointments that keep not their honour but dye like beastes and consume in the pit like rotten sheep and their wealth commeth they know not to whom to make mery withall while death and the grave get dominion over them And the comfort of the Poore in a hard time in famine or other adversity or perplexity the crossnes of his life called the iniquity of his heeles That when as the Richeman that likeed this life and the worship belonging to it shall dye without riches or glory to descend with him the Poor-man shall bee redeemed from his misery and bee accepted and live to bee heire to his fathers that are deceasseed and injoy his substance the word of God Thus is the Poor man for his patience exalted up to heaven and the Richman condemned to hell for want of understanding the one beeing alive and happy and the other dead and in hell for sorrow They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them c. Yf Moses and the Prophets can quench the wrath of God and extinguish the flames of Hell quiet a tormented conscience then surely Moses and the Prophets are the true and living way to grace and to Christ as Christe is the way to the father and the understanding of Moses and the Scriptures Abrahams bosom And fâ—om hence is that parable luke 16. which is heer proclaimed to Riche-men and Men in adversity Which doctrine as it is called a parable in the greek and a comparison in the hebrew so in latine it is moste properly to bee termed a conjecture which is a doctrine much used of the Iewes called Signes and is moste frequent in the Psalmes parables beeing a good demonstration a principall evidence of truthe As tokens shew freendes so signes are a peece of knowledge wherby wee are brought to beleeff and as wee know in part by them So is it a step of faith And by this observation David is mightily confirmed highly honoureth the doctrine through-out the Psalmes and greatly complaineth that Ierusalem wanted lerned men therin as Ps. 74. Therfor hee first propoundeth the Riche-mans travaile concerning the world counting it a hard thing for him to enter into the kingdom of heaven And makeing all his habilements facultyes of riches nothing worth and all his pleasure to bee but the flattery of the world and but for a short season because the Rich hath many
freendes as Salomon sayeth and good likeing is highly commended of the world that taketh him clean away and deludeeth him and bewitcheth astonyeth his understanding that hee is no more capable then a beast Dan. 4. of the golden rules of righteousnes by law or by faith as a scholer of Ierusalem So dyeth hee and goeth into oblivion and descendeth into utter darknes and corruption like a dumb beast never to be mentioned more which for want of fayth or virtue to succed him or good education to out live or survive him hee dyeth a second death and all his honour and glory is ended with him in the dust as Ps. 7. and death triumpheth over him And as Pride goeth before the fall so the fall of man is the trusting in riches and honour and letting slip knowledge and understanding the fear of the Lord. When David seeth this end com of the Rich whose state all along is contrary 2. Thes. 1. to his hee beeing much perplexed with the errors of his life hee easily concludeth that by his dayly affliction and misery hee is therby to look for eternall comfort glory and felicity Therfor hee feareth not but hee shall bee made wise unto salvation and by correction escape the pit that his form and shape corrupt not as Ps· 16. but his faith and rigteousnes shall last for ever From the fall of Adam who was turned out of honour for disobedience Gen. 3. Construction Mem waters For understanding and knowledge waters of life the waters of Iudah c. Is. 48. also riches or abundance of wealth the Riche-mans way makes him a fool no better thaÌ„ a beast yf hee wanteth wisdom Hee seeketh for land houses to last for ever in his Name hee findeth suddainly the grave for his everlasting dwelling which shall have the dominion over him and wear him all to dust for the letter Tet and Mot both the letters for his translation such is his passing hence or demigration a kinde of passover The moste illustrious estate in this world moste glittering turneth to long lasting obscurity Eccl. 11. mark the resounding Man in honour c. and all the termes doubled Is. 8.11.32 Ier. 2.51 Exodus The ninth Petaroth and chapter 30. for the Sacrifice or offering mony of every person But that can not redeem from death No welth is sufficient but the waters of life and understanding of knowledge of the fear of God This is the substance hee presumeth on Ps. 16. mark the words of redemption no man shall redeem c but God will redeem c. again remember A kinde of Name is when a man desireth to leave a Memory PSALM L. THe word of the Everlasting the God of Godes by the mouth of Moses in his last testament to the children of Israel hath been preached in Sion to all the world for a warning of his angry fearfull and horrible judgement of his Law called a consumeing fire for falling away transgression Now hee beeing the God that judgeth calleth heaven and earth to witness of his Iustâ—ce which as in Psalme 40. in the Priestly part of service is an utter condemnation of sacrifice for the glorifyeing of God And also of the leviticall part the usurping of the word that is without regard of instruction or observation Therfor because hee is a God of mercy and in his mercy releaseth when they call on him in distress hee wil have mercy and noâ— Sacrifice a spirituall Thanks-offering rather then a cloveen footed bullock Ps. 69. to glorify him and hee will shew him the way of salvation least in his wrath they bee consumeed and devoured without deliverance As gifts are not gratious to the kinde and as presentes provoke not freendes and all the glory of freendes is to bee freely used and called upon in distress so al Gods glory is free mercy and not sacrifice to bee wholely and onely relyed and called upon because the best sacrifice serveth not in time of judgement but a penitent invocation in trouble for him that will be saveed and comforted And they must have no other freend or God but him to worship to call upon or to serve And this is for the profession of his deer Saintes and chosen Servantes and Elect mentioned in the first table whom in his Kingdom hee thus reprooveth for their drowzines in observing Again the wicked are utterly condemned before him for takeing his name wholely in vain through out the second table when hee observeth none of his commandements but resisteth his will breaketh his Law though it bee in his mouth To these also belong confession repentance and amendement a calling upon God yf they will be put in the way of salvation So that the book of the Law the two Tables beeing opened and the whole world to bee judged either for misdooing or not dooing wee are all condemned without repentance and the mercy of God Like the breaking of the Tables Exo. 31.32 for defect in the holy preesthood Levites as well as the wicked Lev. 6.7 And hee maketh prayer the calling upon God and his Name better then sacrifice as grace is ever more worth then woâ—kes Construction Nun. Defective That all are defective by the Law In manner of performance what the perfection is what the imperfection Nun for ofspring what is to be disanulled what to bee established what to bee condemned what to be justifyed I approove not c. but I will reproove thee c. Exodus The divers kindes of Sacrificers when they are com to sacrifice to their God as they pretended in Aegypt And what kinde of Sacrifice is best properest way of salvation and the greatest glory to God even the Fruit and Calves of the lips Hos. 14. Heb. 13. See these wordes repeated Sacrifice to God c. Hee that sacrifice-eth Thanks-offering c. God called a consumming fire for his Name PSALM LI. DAvid takeeth his occasion in this Psalme to accuse himself of Murther and Adultery though hee speaketh but of Murther which was caused by Adultery And seeing in his conscience the uglynes of this Sinn and transgression and the continuall blemish of his guiltines and that hee had onely sinned against God and highly displeased him by transgressing his word becaus the fleshly and naturall man had prevailed in him and that hee had this wickednes in him from the womb according to the truthe of the Scriptures as Ps. 58. and God loved the truthe from the hart and confession beeing requireed as Ps. 50. and as the story of the Leper doth follow sacrifice in the Law so heer And therfor hee turneth his sinning to Lepry and for his form proceedeth in the person of a Leper and prayeth for forgivenes as a Leper for clensing Math. 8. Luc. 17. And in this cloud hee beginneth at the mercy seat that God would shew his mighty kindenes and mercy upon him and wipe away all his trespass and wash away all his sinn and
them Construction For Nun deficient they seek utterly to devoure him and to constrein him even out of this life and used all devises to make him to fall Mark the doubling of the first wordes for this hee wisheth their destruction and his own preservation which hee findeth and is thankfull Vau the second letter a hook or crook is for fear to this is opposed boldnes faith and confidence both the letters beeing Nau of Navah to prais or adorn Exoâ— 15. all which you shall finde in the same repetition In God I prais his word c. Exodus The Sacrifice heer is praising of God which they vowed in Egypt to perform after their deliverance And this he promisseth to pay as Ps. 50. for the defeat of his Enimy and his own preservation which is upright with the construction also For his Name Immanuel God with us Is. 7. If God bee with us c. Ro. 8. PSALM LVII ALexander the Coppersmith did Paul much harm but the Lord delivered him out of that lions mouth so David is delivered out of the mouth of Saul at his request to God by the protection of Gods word called the shadow of his wings as Ps. 36. and his way of loveing kindenes and truthe fayth and love which hee counteth a wonderfull worke and therfor hee extolls his glory over all the world and with all his instruments sets out the highth of his love and faithfullnes of his promiss the highe tree of the mercyes of God and among all people and nations is thankfull to him Neither doo the wicked loos their reward they lay nets to catch them selves and digg pitts and fall into them This Psalme concernes the former by the same form It is framed from the Enimnity between the serpents seed and seed of the woman the one beeing the seed of warr and the other of peace The Serpents and Enimyes of Gods word sow sedition strife emulation contention debate and discord they sow speares arrows swordes by back-byteing and gnawing brawling quarelling bitter and cursed speaking as Ps. 14.53 never hearkening to the way of peace but are all for warr as Ps. 120. and from hence is that fine Metamorphosis of the Poet wher the Serpents teeth beeing sowen ther grow up armed men So biteing language is the seed of armes and hot and inflameed mouthes and fals tonges are weapons of warr Now the womans seed and the Churches is nothing but the way of God which is mercey and love and truthe with lips unfeined as Ps. 17. sowing concord and peace as Ps. 108. And therfor now David beeing saveed by God his hart brings foorth lutes and harps and viols and is all for musicque and instruments of peace and is ready to sing and set foorth his glory as Ps. 145. that hee may be heard beyond all nations and his noyse above the cloudes for his delivâ—rance The Mystery is shewed by thes wordes and Gloria in excelsis reported and repeated Be thou exalted O God above the heavens and thy glory over all the earth The Matter is his faith in the green tree of the merceyes of God as Ps. 52. and the highth of his love and promiss as Ps. 89. which is above all reach and shall bruse the serpents head as Ps. 56.74 Construction Nun defective devouring is for defection The devourer is devoured and the patient preserved The one waiteth all corruption and falshood reproch and disgrace and detraction according to bothe the letters Naz of Nazah to sprinckle as a kinde of sprinckling or aspersion The other waites for Grace and truthe to defend him and calleth upon God the high to glorify him as Ps. 50. And by his indurâ—ing and calling on God how mightyly his glory is exalted mark the repetition Zain to hear or conceive or listen hee will open the eares or the daughters of Musicque Eccl. 12. by his musicque and make them hear As by the coactive for a kinde of hearing Exodus His calling upon God in this misery and his whole relyeing on him serveth for a sacrifice and a glory to him as Ps. 50. in thes wordes I call unto God c. the Almighty c. For the Elect Calamity is shortened Math. 24. and passeth over and the righteous are mightyly redeemed So is Gods Glory the more mightyly advanced and to bee extolled the harder the deliverance is For it is full of grace and truthe Ioh. 1. in saveing God giveth both grace and glory all the good that can bee for trusting in him Ps. 84. therfor the same is to be ascribeed to him in the highest for the power of it the Name Elyon for the extolling c. PSALM LVIII BEcaus the wicked doo allwayes wrong in thought word and deed and miss and lye in all thinges Psalm 1. by reason of their furey and rage which is deaff to all reason and instruction and will no more be pacifyed and perswadeed like a spitefull and rageing Enimye then a serpent or a lion no not by the wiseest Moderator from their work of backbiteing and devouring talk therfor Davids prayer is that their serpentlike biteing teeth and their devouring grinders the seed of armes may be brokeen in peâ—cees as Ps. 3. That their Arrowes of bitter wordes their endles aimes as Ps. 64. may bee shunned as easy as water and beeing brokeen they and all their worke miscarry with unripenes melt away that it never com to â—ffect nor see the sunn That his choler may moste speedyly boil him alive for his defeat and the just may be comforted with their revenge and victory over the wicked and that men may bee sure and confess seeing som mens works goe before unto Iudgement and som mens follow after that ther is fruit for the just and ther bee Gods that are Iudges in the earth This Psalme from Iob 19. deserveth to bee written with a pen of iron and carved in stone for Eternity and drawen with lead that never may goe out God will judge every deed sayth Salomon and bring all a mans life in question and draw all his actions to judgement whether they bee good or bad Therfor David from his enimyes wicked life and the nature of the Serpent draweth a condemnation and out of the experience of his tribulations cannot but hope for an end of him And thus hee prayeth according to the curs as Ps. 109. That seeing hee can neither speak nor judge aright but all wrong and injury is in his hart and handes to recompens as Ps. 5.52.140 and his minde doth ponder nothing els and is fals as soon as hee is born with incorrigible error and malice hee entreth into this curs and prayer against him as Ps. 109.140 as against a murtherer and a temper from the beginning That all his instruments may bee brokeen that hee may bee easyly avoyded that his way may perish Ps. 1. and himself enter into consumption as followeth That his falshood may com to nothing and melt and not be able to abide
the Sunn but to bee suppressed for ever which is the cursed groveling of the wicked in the Ground never to look up beeing ashameed of the sunn And his Enimyes licking of the dust as Ps. 72. And for his Malice that as soon as the pot is over that it may buâ—n so that his own rancor may burn him and consume him as soon as hee is offended The end is that the Iust may bee cheered for his victory even his faith that his Enimy is ashameed of all his wayes and hath no fruit or comfort of them and that ther is fruit and reward for the just that they are revenge-ed of the wicked by the judgement of God that payeth every man according to his work as Ps. 62. And this from thes wordes of the Curs Cursed art thou above all creatures upon thy belly shalt thou goe and dust shalt thou eat all dayes of thy life Gen. 3. Construction For Nun defective hee speaketh of a generall defection in the sinning partes the tong the eares the hart and handes The tong is tyed from good and so are the eares stopped for hearing of good the minde is all buissyed about wrong and the handes with injury And all that they pronounce is nothing but error and falshood Therfor that they may be made defect in their pronunciation by breaking of their teeth and their Iawes and their arrowes according to the letter Heth to break Another defection is in consuming and another to bee an abortive never to bee any thing or never born Another that as soon as they live and have life they bee tormented Is. 9. for the two letters Nach for rest as they be all straying and erring and will not be instructed so that they may bee restless The whole subject is all of wrong Exodus Hee dealeth heer upon the privative The sacrifice and burnt offering of the children of wrathe for a defect of all righteousnes to oppose the sacrifice therof as Psal. 4. Deut. 33. that all wrong dealing may stopp his mouth For hee concludeeth that ther is a reward of righteousnes as Rom. 6. Mat. 6. Gen. 4. And as the wicked are wrong in all their actions so is their end utter destruction and that by a righteous judgement revenge upon them even in the earth So among the rest such sacâ—ifice also they used in the wildernes Gods â—amed judges c. by the first and last wordes and God the God of revenge as Ps. 94. PSALM LIX VPon thy belly shalt thou goe and dust shalt thou eat all dayes of thy life The divill like a roring lion seeketh to devour all hee can To this text hee bringeth the strong appetite of the Hethen to deuour the church of God and Sauls appetite to the life of David and thus they goe all upon the belly like hungry dogs about the town to satisfy themselves with the lives of the just Their appetite is sharp they lye in wait moste secretly and bable much with their mouthes they slay him with proud words behinde his back Ps. 94. but God sets him before their face as Ps. 92. and wills them and commands them not medle with his people that have their trust and confidence in him and laughs at their secrecy and promisseth â—o preserve him Against these hee prayeth God the Churches Lord and Defendour â—o quash them and debase them and prostrate them and subject them by his power to bring them down and subdue them and powre them strait along as durt in the street as Ps. 18. And that none may hear them none may take them up none may saue them none may pitty them that they may never rise again to afflict him And that God would make runagates of them and vagabundes like Cain and bring them to the lowest degree and scatter them as dust before the winde as Ps. 1.68 That their state may bee a cursed state And as pride goeth before the fall so that by their pride like Lucifer they may bee takeen and cast down into hell as accursed and that the cursses of their own mouthes and ill wishes towards him and proud pursuit of him for his life and their bloody mindes may all com home to themselves as Ps. 63.64 and work their own destruction and consume them And that God would in this very rage destroy them wherby they are offended and angry at him to teach them that God will bee master and have dominion in Iacob and in all the world also And so they may goe like hungry dogs about the town murmuring and curssing and beg from door to door as Ps. 73.109 and never bee satisfyed And as hee is bound to sing of the firmnes and strength of Gods promiss and his loveing kindenes for his escape and refuge in his affliction and sore distress so to his strength and confidence and the God of his mercey hee will sing in Psalmes for his escape Construction For Nun defective They seek heer deprivation of his life that had no defect in him neither sinn nor trespass nor iniquity they beeing both bloody cursed which maketh the equity of his salvation and preservation and their damnation with utter destructâ—on prayed for that they may like doges never be satisfyed Is. 56. And let them goe yelling c. which wordes bee curiously doubled to shew want and misery for their greedynes And from Nat and Natah to decline or bring down Ps. 17. their base life as vagabundes to buissy them according to the title that they hurt him not though they wait to kill him Against their strengâ—h of persecution hee applyeth Gods strength the Ark and truth of his word for his Garison and salvation which hee observeth And his kindenes in rewarding as Ps. 62. Thes wordes com often also to make them notable Exodus Hee intendeth heer the sacrifice of fooles that are hasty to vow as vowes for the sinn of the mouth Eccles. 5. Deut. 23. beeing with much pride and much furey uttered much swearing much curssing much lyeing and deceiving and with thes ginnes hee would haue them taken and destroyed for their defect Like the vow of conspiracey against Paul Actor 23. The God of Releeff for strength and kindnes repeated Psal. â—8 144 PSALM LX. THe promisses of God doe hold the Church to their faith and they are sweet all yea and Amen And by Gods promiss in the Scripture they all hold and live and are refreshed because hee is mercyfull in them all and faithfull to the end The Church is often sick diseased but through faith they are recovered and made whole The Sicknes of the people of God is persecution and famine of the word and tottering in religion yet as long as the fire is not quite out and faith quite extinguished and their knowledge of the word quite decayed ther is no fear of death And this is the hope that David hath when the people of God are even at deathes door as Ps. 9. even his beloveed whom hee
and consumes them All the whole time of man upon earth is but an angry time and it is gon ere they think of it his age is short painfull soon com about which beeing seventy or eighty at moste remembereth still their state of captivity and fain they would bee wise in reckoning of their yeers as Ps. 25.79.89 c. which is rightly to apply one time to another wherby concludeing their calamity to bee neer at an end their captivity allmoste out the Church now prayeth that God will now with all speed com again unto them and comfort his sâ—rvants And betime give them their fill of his kindenes and make them wise and redeem them that they may sing and bee merry and keep sabbath all their lives They love much to whom much is forgiven so that their heighth of joy might bee according to the sorenes of their affliction and the dayes and yeeres of their happines and mirth may infinitly exceed for their dayes of evill That they and their children may see his moste inestimable works and that in his pleasantnes God would make good the labour and long service of him According to Moses his request Ex. 32. Deut. 9. An Argument of the book of Numbers For so many reckonings as are in it of times and seasons which is the summ of all Construction Tsade meat The travail for wisdom serveth for meat and comforteth which Christ in the Gospell speaketh from hence Luc. 2. Io. 4. To dwell eternally in God in his power and live and beleeve in him for Eternall life is a kinde of food Io. 6.14 Gods wrath and terror is an eating or consumeing fire that wasteeth and diminisheth man with affliction for sinn by firy judgement Ps. 78. Ier. 10. Apo. 8.9.10 Is. 9.24 And out of the dust hee hath his conversion again and is satisfyed with comfort joy Gods plesantnes to him his estimation of him and blessing of all his works For mercey and kindenes which hee feedeth on Mark the relation of the partes and repetition of the termes Anger and terror and utter consumming opposeed to kindenes joy and prosperity Which is closely implyed in the beginning by the first and last letters of A B C Athbash for the terme of the Alphabet beginning the three first verses and in the third vers twise converted and â—urned backwards and made Tashba in thes words thou bringest c. and sayest com again c. so the yeer is a kinde of conveâ—sion or retuâ—n sleep and refreshing florish cutt and wither and all alteration to shew the confusion before the digesting of the word by confounding Athbash for the Alphabet Numbers is called Bammidhbar in the wildernes that they remained in eternity with God in time of rudenes Gen. 1. and have an everlasting dependance from him The opposition is eternity and temporality without variablenes and with change as between God and his creature Is. 29.40 Ps. 102. also Bammidhbar by the word their faith commeth by hearing and hearing by the word c. and thus they are made his subjects and hee their Lord and God by the termes of Adonah and El. And such effect hath the voice in the wildernes for reformation c. of a few out of manny by way of affliction See the doubling of thes wordes of eternity and of moment all ages c. generation Yeers night day sleep in wakeing morning evening fresh withered cut past â—â—y and haste c. bring com again return For recreation cheer and mirth c. God bringeth all to a wildernes and again maketh a habitation of the same so that habitation heer supposeth a wildernes PSALM XCI THis Psalme by way of answer to the former sheweth wherin the safety of the Church consisteth their victory also their rule of redemption haveing their dwelling with God and lodgeing and relyeing in the shadow of his wings under the book of God the word of truth They shall bee so defended and shielded therby that no weapons nor snares nor ods by night or day at home nor abroad can deaâ—e with them His Ministry hath such charge of them and with their doctrine so sound that with their voluble tonges their flowrishing blades and spirituall swordes they defend their lives and keep and save them They lead them right keep them out of harmes way and explane their wayes that they stumble not That by their faith and confidence heerin they may stop the mouthes of Lions withstand all fiercenes and vanguish all terror and beware of the subdolty of the serpent and escape the divillish crauling temptation of vipers and overcom all wrangling and spitefull Enimyes Ps. 41. With this consolation in counsell because they know him and honour him and call on him hee will graunt them their whole request in the former Psalme Construction Tsadeh from Tsad and Tsadah to hunt or fowle or lye in wait for prey La. 3.4 T s Ier. 16. Hee describeeth the chase of an Enimye how it is by day force and by night craft This hee termneth a terrible plague the stroke of fear and the smart of the arrow that commeth from him lighting on him Another sens of Tsade is Tsad a side wher as all fell beside him and no kindes of stroke nor scourge nor plague could fâ—ll on him c. The second letter is Aleph for a thousand and also many thousandes by declineing it And Aleph for study or lerning which is ment by the wordes imbrace and knowen c. also Tsadeh for food which is his study and instruction which bringeth salvation and his fill of dayes and all benefit and victory Ther is no fear nor dâ—nger in the word of God nor fetching any one out of his hous that is so full of instruction Mark the repetition bothe letters make Tse except or without or goe out or escape as concerning the snares Metsudah a fortress for the first letter concerning the stroke This thinkes upon Jah for Iehovah by the number of verses by protection against the plague of corruption in Havath Mark the seven affixed How 's or hims at the end for exception and onelynes for the whole Name Iehovah Numbers The wildernes is heer supposed by the sport beeing savage also by the dwellings the spoile of privative of desolation As you may see by insisting upon the wordes dwelling lodgeing relyeing truth habitation tabernacle c. The person is faith the hous is the word of the moste Highe and All-sufficient for his moste safe protection The Ministers are his Tutors to keep him from all offence and perill and shame in the world From hence is all victory their faith and love and dwelling with God and adviseing with his word and loveing of him and his grace is sufficient 2 Cor. 12. Because his trust is aloft in Eljon the Highe hee concludeeth his salvation from all and victory over all Mark the repetition and relation to Eljon and Shadda the Highe and the All-sufficient evermore
With speaking against it or denieing it Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass or invireon for the kindenes of God that doth allwayes stand about the faithfull and protecteth them and helpeth them and comforteth them that trust in him Ps. 32.33 Quotou they are yrksom lothsom and tedious as are the Images that ther is no use of For ther is no light in us but in the Law of God that is the makeer of heaven and earth See the repetition God thrise for the opposeing of Imagees God can doo all things and they nothing Eternall for affection and preservation of the whole church Trust help and defense c. Prais Iah 15. by the works of Iehovah and for the spirit therof that images have not Ps. 135.149 Deuteronomy The reciteing and Rehersall heer is the generall blessing of God for his grace and the wonderfull light of his truthe through faith Mark the repetition Israel Aaron and all that fear God bless Eternall twise abridged Jah for Jehovah heaven upon you twise c. For multiplyeing of his grace for ever And this serveth for an admiration of the wonderfull way of God Imagees and dead men can say nothing to it it belongs to the liveing to register the Acts of the Eternall That they may bee of blessed memory and have a fruitfull posterity Consider the infinite increas and fructifyeing in Egypt Deut. 10. Num. 2. According to the Name of Ioseph in phrase of adding as Act. 2. And his blessing Gen. 49. Deut. 33. As the like is in the next of Iosuah in phrase of saveing Dealing upon the story as it goes PSALM CXVI THis psalme is joined to the former by shewing why the Name of God should bee so glorifyed above all as Ps. 92. And the effect of calling upon him for at what time so ever hee calleth in what distress so ever hee bee and whatsoever hee requesteth it is readily graunted and hee is heard and reveeled When for misâ—rable distress and greeff the very pangs of death and the grave had fallen upon him and had hold of him as Psal. 18. that hee doubted of life and hee was quite exhausted and spent as David Psal. 142. hee prayeth for life and hee was holpen that is the Everlasting that is just and kinde in all things of his wayes and works and preserveth the simple ones by his word as Ps. 19. saveed him When hee was so spent with affliction and misery that no promiss of life or salvation could possess him or comfort him and all that was promissed was incredible unto him and seemed unpossible and yet for the deer respect of his saintes hee savâ—ed him delivering him from death and pain and wandering to walk before God and his Saintes in immortality For this grace hee professeth the love of God and willeth his minde and soule to bee content and at quiet and throughly satisfyed and take rest seeing God hath dealt so bountifully with him as nothing more is to bee demanded nor any thing can bee a sufficient reward for his good turns so doubled and trebled upon him Therfor hee will take the Scriptures the book of the Law of the promiss of the Covenant and all the doctrine called the book of salvation and from thence throughout them all wassail and call upon the Name of God Ps. 119. Q. and sacrifice his devotion in Sermons of Thanks unto him in presence of all his people in witnes therof and willeth him to bee praised And as hee is his Minister and servant at his right hand and sonn of his handmaid the Church hee requesteth that hee may bee loosed and at liberty to doo the same accordingly Now seeing God calleth his sonn the Church out of Egypt heer is likewise their invocation the mercey of God upon them in redeeming them from sorrow and bringing them home to Eden their promissed rest of Canaan the gift of the Nations and their contentment and love and thankfullnes for the same to the study and contemplation of the Law of God for the love therof For their continuall succour and satisfaction safe conduit and comfort by the righteousnes and glory and pureity therof as Ps. 19. recovering them even from the chaines and thralldoom of ignorance and pit of despaire by his miraculous grace and reconciliation to serve him in all perfet knowledge and understanding in the Church and Paradise of God for ever wherto they are also thankfull and devoteed above measure And seeing all thes may well content hee willeth his soul to turn to her rest shewing how bountifull God hath dealt with him and resolving to pay ample vowes for the same Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to invireon or compass is heer dilateed by snares and torments and bonds and misery strict affliction and with releas and deliverance the opposit terms Iod a hand for death and hell and bondes that apprehended him and had hold of him Vav a crook hath the same sens but by way of saveing redeemeing and deliveringe and pulling him out of the snares and grave of affliction c. Hee would fain bee loosed that hee might serv him becaus hee is his servant See the repetition The three letters make Quaju they vomited hee dealeth on the contrary which is his love and good digestion of the good turns and merceyes of God upon him Which agree well with the godly by their deliverance when they call upon him Ier. 25. in so much that they mean to make him recompense by the thankfull service of him The Mercifull Eternall Jah the Name of Iehovah is fifteen times repeated Hee dealeth heer upon Ghimel as in the 103. And Iah and therfor ther want three verses of the A B C. Mark diligently the repetition and the kindes of instruments Deuteronomy Hee will call and speak and preach much of the Name of God and celebrate and proclaim his wonderfull merceyes by daily service offering and sacrifice for a recitation For hee redeemed them from slaveish death of Egypt and satisfyed them and gave them rest by Iosua by phrase of helping or saveing Mark the words Name Call beseech death liveing bountifull good turns Eternall for merceyfull Gratious invocation servant pay vowes in the sight of his people doubled in the place of rest Heb. 4. They make earnest heer of their delusion of Pharoh by their excuse of departure Ex. 4.5 c. PSALM CXVII THis Psalme by grace in the last psalme reaching to the kindenes and truthe Psal. 115. for which Gods name is so laudable and glorious and so to psal 92. wher it is to bee chaunted out for it and seeing it lighteth upon a seventh and therfor to require a rest as also for sanctification of the seventh yeer after the forty from Aegypt with a Sabath work of rest for the land according to the 47. dayes rain before the entering the Ark also for the number of the subdueed nations beeing seven which the loveing kindenes of God and his faithfullnes overcame and the strength