bur, becauſe he who is ſtritly ſo ts moſt within our reach,and moſt liable to the injuries which. one man doth to another. 1 To wir, into bis Lips or Mouth, which is underſtocd here, as alſo Exod. 26: 7: Job: 4:2; and fully expreſied 3 Pſal; 16; 4. and 50: 16; C 7, e.) Doth ndt raile it, though that may ſeem to be included in the fuſt Cauſe, that Back-bitezhnot : Or, doth not ſpread and propogaret ; w. hich men are too prone and ready to do; and which makes that a
the Reſurrefion and Everlaſting Life, 10-===114 PReſerve me b O God: 'for in thee do I put my truſt c,
b From all mine Enemies. by promiſe oblidged not to deceive my Truſt.
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to one Perſon of another. And it is uſual witk David to turn his Speech to his Soul, as Pſal: 42: 6: and 43: 5- e Thou haſt oft times avowed and profeſſed ir, and doſt {till perſift to do ſo. f By Crea- tion and preſervation and otherwiſe; to whom I owe all Service and Obedience uponthat account. g Whatſoever Piety or Virtue,
publick, which before was bur a private injury and miſchiefs Or, |
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excellent / in whom zsall my conn mM. * 7, e. Bur my goodneſs extendeth, which is Pe of the Gs Verſe: From which alſo there may be fetched another Supplement: O my ſoul, thou haſt ſaid, to the Saints, þ j, e, To thoſe holy and righteous
Becauſe I cannot reach thee, I endeavour to pay a and Love, and Kiridnels to all Saints, and Servants they are, and whoſe image they bear. This may ſeem - more properly to agree to David, than to Chriſt, whoſe goodneſs was principally deſigned for; and imparted to Sinners, and did not find men Saints, but make them ſo ; nor was it confined to them, that lived with him upon the Earth, butextended to all the Belie- vers of all Ages before and after him. / Or, the magnificent, or mighty, or honourable, to wit, the Saints, as he now called- them whom, becauſe they were mean and deſpicable in the Eyes of the World, he honours with their juſt Titles, and by appropriating them to the Saints he ſufficiently intimates that all other men how great ſo ever, are but ignoble and wile Perſons,as he had called thems Pſa: 153 4. w i. e. Whoſe Company and Converſation is moſt Vleaſant and deſirable to me. Compare Pſa: 119: 63-
4 Their ſorrows ſhall be multiplied thar || haſten -f- ter another Ged » : their dring-offerings o of blood p will
I rot offer, * nor take up their names q into my lips,
» Or, that preſene, or endow (as this Verb ſignifies, Exod: 22:16) another God, to wit, with Oblations, as it follows, God is not expreſſed in the Hebrew text, but ſeems fitly ana neceſſarily to be underſtood, becauſe of the following Offerings, which are made to none that is not-either really or by Repurarion a God, The Senſe is, Idolaters, notwithſtanding all their zeal or coſt about their Idols, gain nothing to themſelves, but abundance of ſorrow and miſery. This he mentioneth'partly as one Reaſon, why he would have no fellowſhip with them in their Idolattous worſhip, which he adds in this Verſe : and partly that by this Compariſon he might illuſ trate and commend his own Happineſs, in having the Lord for his Portion, of which he ſpeaks, v. 5: 6/ Or thus, let their ſorrows be multiplyed, &c- Having ſhewed his great ReſpeRt and AffeQtion to the Saints, and excellent Servants of the true God, he now declares what an abhorrency he had for thoſe that forfake the true God, and worſhip Idols To whom he wiſheth increaſe of their ſorrows, whereby they may either be | conv : .T agaifr. or may be cut off ; if they be impenitent and incorrigible. o Under which he comprehends all their Offerings, the reaſon be- ing for Subſtance the ſame inall : but he mentions theſe parricular- ly, becauſe of a ſpecial Corruption in them above their other $a- crificesg to wit, that the very matter of them was unlawful, as we ſhall ſee ; Which alſo might ſerve both ro convince and deter thoſe Iſraelites which hearkened afterIdolatry, and made no Conſcience of maintaining Communion with Idolaters, which was the Caſe of
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