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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15636	Exercises vpon the first Psalme Both in prose and verse. By Geo: Wither, of the Societie of Lincolnes Inne.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1620 (1620)	STC 25902; ESTC S120229	57,241	188

hath reference aswell to the words and workes as to the thoughts in which sence it is not vsed in the Scriptures only but the Poet also saith Meditabor arundine Musam And it was well expressed in the word Exercise in our olde English Translation By the Law is vnderstood not onely the morall Lawes for then Blessednesse might haue beene obtained by working according to the morall vertues as the heathen Philosophers taught Nor is here meant the Ceremoniall Law alone nor that and the morall together onely For then the wicked Iewes though they continued in their vnbeleefe might become partakers of this happinesse But the Law in this place as I told you in my Preparation to the Psalter it was sometime to be vnderstood signifies the Law of God as it hath at once respect to all the ages of the Church from Adam vntil the end of the world and therfore comprehends the Law of Grace also yea all the Doctrine of God contained in his Word And this Law is called the Law of the LORD or if you will haue it according to the Originall The Law of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or IHVH if we may expresse the Hebrew Tetragrammaton in our letters And these Characters some late Interpreters read Iehouah supposing the forme of that word to imply as much as He that is that was and that is to come For say they le is a signe of the time to come Ieueth Hee will bee Ho of the time present Hoveth hee that is Vah of the time past Havah hee was Which wee will not denie to bee a probable and ingenious conceite but indeede the word Iehouah it selfe is not confessed to be so much as heard of to be an Hebrew word among the Iewes neither doth it signifie any thing in that tongue Nor can we haue one Testimony that the Hebrew Tetragrammaton was euer anciently so pronounced And therefore vnlesse we had better authority then probabilities and vncertaine coniectures of new Gramarians I see no reason why we should venter to put this vnknowne name vpon God Which if it be the right yet not so sufficiently warranted to be truely reuealed vnto vs that we may vse it with the same confidence wherewith we pronounce the other names of God As you may see more at large in the thirteenth Chapter and third Section of my preparation to the Psalter But to teach vs then that this law in which it is here said the blessed man delighteth is not the law of man but of God know that the vnpronounceable Hebrew word here vsed and insteede of which the Iewes spoke Adonaj or Elohim the Septuagint and Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Ancient latine expositors Dominus and the authorized english Translations for the most LORD is an essentiall and vncommunicable name of our great eternall and euerliuing God who is most truely called Hee that is that was and that is to come and therefore wheresoeuer you find this Tetragrammaton 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 You may be assured that there is to bee vnderstood eyther one or all the Persons of the sacred Trinity For whereas the word Adonai and Elohim are sometime communicated to others that is neuer so And therfore because the word LORD by which wee according to the Apostles haue exprest it may be communicable to men You shall vnderstand that wheresoeuer in the last English translation you finde LORD thus in Capitall letters there is that glorious and most essentiall name of God to be vnderstood which neuer ought to be applied vnto any other But which I had almost outslipt you must note that the holy-Ghost vseth here the word Delight to shew vs further to shew vs further that the deuotions of a blessed man are not constrained or seruile but rather proceeding from a true and affectionate pleasure in the worship of God with the studie of his word It must be vnto him as it was to Dauid More to be desired then fine Gold and sweeter then honie or the honie-combe Yea the excellence of his affection is further and another way manifested in that hee is said to meditate thereon Day and Night For the Day and Night in holy Scripture hath a three-fold vnderstanding Temporall Morrall and Allegoricall Temporall is the day which we enioy by the presence of the Sunne the night thereof is that which is made by the absence of the same Morrally it is taken for life and death Prosperitie and aduersity or such like and this is also Metaphoricall Allegorically the old Law is called the Night and the Gospell tearmed the Day and therefore Zacharie in his song wherein he spake of Christ and the light reuealed vnto Mankinde in the new Testament saith that The day-spring from on high hath visited vs to giue light to them that sit in darkenesse But Saint Paul writing vnto the Romanes concerning the faith of Christ Iesus saith in playner tearmes That the Night was past and the Day was at hand Euen thus many waies are the Day and Night to be vnderstood in the booke of God But in this place they are to be considered according to all and euery of these The blessed man meditateth on the Law of the LORD day and night that is He pondereth all the misteries of Iesus Christ as they were promised figured and prophecied of in the old Testament which as the Night shadowed them ouer and then beleeueth and confesseth them as they were fulfilled in the new Testament which was the Day that made them apparant to the whole world Yea he is continually enclined vnto the study of Piety without intermission Morning and Euening at Noone-day and at Mid-night both in Prosperity and Aduersity Openly and Secretly For many can bee content perhaps to spare some little time in the Day for the meditation of Gods word but there are very few that will breake a sleepe and arise at night with Dauid to praise God many can be content whilest they gayne any outward benefit or preferrement by their profession to be hot and earnest in the study thereof but few dare abide the blacke and terrible night of persecution Nay a little aduersity or worldly inconuenience cooles all their zeale Hypocrites by Day that is openly in the eyes of the world will be very forward and seeme to be stout professors but in the Night that is secretly and by themselues where none but God is witnesse they can laugh at their owne dissembling and with those people of whom God speakes by the Prophet Malachi they say thus It is in vaine to serue God and what Profite is it that wee keepe his commandements Againe there be others that by Night with Nicodemus dare peraduenture come to God yet by Day are affraid or ashamed to be seene in a Religious mans company But neyther of these haue well vnderstood what is ment by Meditating Gods word Day and Night nor are they yet in the way of Blessednesse Out