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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12551	The bright morning starre: or, The resolution and exposition of the 22. Psalme preached publikely in foure sermons at Lincolne. By John Smith preacher of the citie.	Smyth, John, d. 1612.	1603 (1603)	STC 22874; ESTC S113474	48,228	204

there is the preuenting an obiection which might thus be made by a Iew. Obiect Shall the Gentiles also become subiects of the kingdom of the Messias who were sometime execrable Sol. There is nothing impossible to God for seeing he is king and so ruleth among the heathen he is able to conuert the Gentiles also and of stones to raise vp children to Abraham This is the first distinction of the persons by their natiō The second distinction is that poore and rich also shall be thankefull and that is exprest v. 29. The rich who are called the fat men of the earth haue their actiō of thākfulnes assigned thē eating worshipping Poore or afflicted persons are of two sortes 1 Such as goe downe into the dust that is beggars and basse persons 2 Such as cannot quicken their owne soule that is persons condemned to die or persons sick of deadly diseases c. All these afflicted persons haue their thankfull actions assigned them which is that they shall bow before him signum pro signato Metonymia namely they shall worship him Thus the parentes which are the first sort of persons with their thankfull actions are propounded The children and posteritie also haue their thankful actiōs 〈◊〉 the reasō thereof assigned The thankfull actions of the posteritie are two 1 They shall serue the lord in the obedience of his lawe which is set out by the circūstance of time for euer they shall be reckened to him verse 30. 2 Action of thankfulnesse is that when they are come into the Church by effectuall vocation they shall declare his righteousnes The reason of these thankfull actions of the posteritie of the gentiles is for that God hath wrought righteousnes for a people to be borne that is either for their posteritie or some other straung people that as yet are vnborne by spirituall regeneration This thankfulnes is prophesied and so the whole psalme is resolued In the Complaint and the Supplication Christs priesthood is described both in his sacrifice and intercession In the promise of thankefulnesse Christs prophesie is comprised In the prophesie of thankfulnesse Christs kingdome is comprehended Finis ANNOTAtions and obseruations out of the 22. Psalme Of the Title of the Psalme A Psalme THis Psalme containeth a pittifull complaint a feruent praier a promise and prophesie of thankefulnesse and yet the Prophet penned it in the forme of a Psalme whence thus much may be noted that it is not vnlawefull to sing doctrine exhortation complaints supplication prophesies and such like matters as well as thankesgiuings briefly to sing any portion of holy Scripture so be that vnderstanding and edificatiō be not hindred and this collectiō ariseth out of this place by analogie The Prophet Dauid is here to be considered Of Dauid 1. in his owne person 2. sustaining the person of a godly man 3. as a type of Christ whose sufferings and glorie whose priesthood in his sacrifice and intercession with his propheticall office in teaching and kingdome in gathering and guiding his Church in all ages places and times are here not obscurely figured whēce we may note that kings and mightie men of the earth are not to scorne religious exercises as Dauid did not the whole booke of the Psalmes witnesseth but with the Prophet to acquaint themselues with holy meditatiōs of their owne estate howe the matter is betwixt God and their own soules of the condition of the Church which shall suffer with Christ before it be glorified with him and of the doctrine of the Gospell in the offices of Christ the summe of the Psalme to the cheif or master musition The Musitians Singers office principally consisted in setting singing the Psalmes of the Prophets for the instruction and edification of the church as also in keeping these holy writings safe for the vse of the Church in time to come in regard of which office the Church is called the pillar and ground of trueth wherefore when the Prophets had composed any Psalmes they sent them to the singers and musitians specially to the principal Musitian of any order who had the ouersight of the rest of his order that they might bring them in publike for the comfort and instruction of the whole church whence this collection might be made that if musicke were lawfull for the Iewes it is now for vs and if vocall musicke be lawefull by consent of all why not instrumentall also alwaies remembring that edification must not be hindered but furthered for musicke beeing one of the liberall arts why is there not vse of musicke in furthering vs in the worship of God as wel as of Grammar Rhetoricke or Logycke c and musicke is not a parcell of the ceremoniall lawe and the Lord commanded it in the Church and it was vsed by Christ and his Apostles Againe hence might be obserued that it is lawful to pray the prayers composed by other men which was customable to the Church of the Iewes who vsed to bring other mens psalmes which sometime were prayers into the publique assemblie as for example this psalme and if it be said that they were vsed only dogmatically the answer is that is not so for they praised God with the words of Dauid and Asaph and they bowed themselues and worshipped as it is euident 2. Chron. 29.30 where besides the meditation of the matter no doubt they had holy desire wishes sutable to the wordes of the prayers or thanksgiuings as the wordes of bowing and worshipping do plainly import in the place alleadged and therefore howsoeuer some think it seemeth to be very lawfull to pray accordingly to a set forme and so to say and pray the Lords prayer so be that we insinuate our vnderstanding affectiōs into the matter of that set prayer which we vse making it our owne when we pray it Concerning the morning starre To thinke these wordes aijeleth hasshachar to be the name of an instrument is neither warrantable nor reproueable but coniectural I know not what can be said for it or against it To think them the tune of a common song or the tune of some ciuill ballad seemeth to be to accuse the holy ghost for not keeping decorum which is when holy psalmes are song in the tunes of common and it may be prophane ballads also To translate with Tremellius and Iunius ad primordium aurorae is very good for the words may beare that reading and then they import the time of vsing the psalme the early morning the time of the morning sacrifice so that this psalme was an exposition and cōmentarie of the sacrifice the sacrifice was a type of Christ this Psalme teacheth the signification of the sacrifice so this Psalme annexed to the sacrifice did euery day traine vp the Church of the Iewes with a continuall meditation and expectation of the promised Messias whose sufferings and glorie are in psalme expressed Yet notwithstanding there is another exposition which may best befit the argument