hith provided ſo goodan heritage for me and withal inſpired that Counſel and Wiſdom into me,by which I have choſen the Lord for my portion, and am fo fully farisfied with him, z i. e. My inward thoughts and affe&ions (which are commonly ſignitied by rhe Rein as Pſa; 7: 9:8 $6:2.&7 3.21:8&139: 13: Fer: 11; 20,and 12, 2: and 17:5 10. ) being inſpired and moved by the holy Spirit. # i. e- Dire& me what courſe totake, how te pleatc and icrve God, and to put my whole Truit and Confidence in him, as it follows, 6 Not on- ly in theday time, but alſo in the aighr, when others are aſleep, buer my mind is working upon God, and the things of God, and improving the ſilence. and leaſure, and ſolitude of the night to holy Meditations, and the exciting of my aff-&ions towards God. | 8 * I have ſet the LORD alwaysbefore me c:becauſz
* be is at my right hand d, I ſhall not be moved e.
c ire. I have always preſented, him to my mind, as my Rule and Scope, as my Witneſs and Judge, as my Patron and ProteQtor in the diſcharge of my Office,and inall my Afftions. Hirherto David ſeems to have ſpoken in hisown Perſon, and with ſpecial reſpe&ro himſelf, hue now he ſeems to have been tranſported by an higher In- ſpiration of the Spirit of Prophecy, and to be. carried above himſelf, and to have an Eye tothe man Chriſt Jeſus, who is and was the end of the Law, and the great Scope of all the, Prophets, and to ſpeak of himſelfonly as a Type of Chriſt, and with more ſpecial reſpe& unto Chriſt,in whom this and the following Verſes were much more ; truly and fully accompliſhed than in himſelf, Chriſt as man did always ſet his Fathers will and Glory before him, as he himſelf oft times declareth, eſpecially in St. John's Goſpel. 4 To. wit, to
: ſtrengthen me, C for the right hand is the chief ſeat of a Man's
ſtrength, and Inſtrument of AQion, ) to Prote&, aſliſtand Comfort me, as this Phraſe ſignifies, Pſs: 109; 31+ and 110; F5-, And this aſſiſtance of God was neceſſary to Chriſt as man. e Or, removed, ei- ther from the diſcharge of my Duty,or from the attainment of that
ſtcuQion, and God ſers himſelf againſt me as an Enemy, withdraw- ing his favour from me and filling me with deadly forrows,through the Senſe of his anger; yet I donot deſpair but am afſured that God will deliver me out of all my Diſtreſles. 5 9 Thereforef my heart g is glad, andrny glory þ re- Joyceth 5 : my fleth alſo ſhalf reſt & in hope 1. |
f Upon this ground und Confidence» . g The proper ſeat of jo and of all the Affe&ions. heither 1. my ſoul, which isindeed the Glory of aman. Or rather 2, my Tongue, which alſo is -a mans Glory and Priviledge, above all other living Creatures, -and the In« ſtrument of glorifying both 00d and man;& whoch is. oft called a mans Glory,as Gen; 49: 6: Pſal: 3o: 12: and 57: 8: and 108- 1: and149; 5. Ando this very word istranflated, A#s 2: 26: And thus the diſ< tinftion between Heart and Glory, and Fleſh is more certain and evi- dent :Or,exulteth, i, e. Declares or expreſſerh my inward joy, For this Verb ſignifies not ſo much internal joy,as the outward & vilible emonſtrations of it, in Words or Geſtures and Carriages: ,,k.z. e; My body ſhall quietly and ſweetly reſt in the Grave, to which I am haſtening. /i:e. In confident aſſurance of irs incorruption there, and of ity ReſurreQion to a bleſſed and immortal Life,as it is explained v, 10, tx. The fleſh or body is in it felf,byt a dead and ſenſeleſs lump of clay, .yet Hepe is here aſcribed ro it figuratively,as it is to the brute Creatures, Rom: 8: 19, becauſe there is Matcer and Foundation for ſuch hope, if it were capable of it, the good promiſed and expeted being certainly future. | |
many of them in $Sau['s time ; and to juſtifie himſelf for his Deteſ- ration of them, and ofall fellowſhip with them- p In which the Gentiles uſed (as divers learned men have obſerved} to Offer and ſometimes to drink part of the Blood of their Sacrifices, whether of Beaſts or of Men, as either of them were. Sacrificed, Which muſt needs be very hateful toGod, becauſe he had ſo ſeverely for. bidden the drinking of Blood to his people either ar their $acri« fices, or intheir common Food. 9 i.e. Of thoſeother Gods men- tioned before. I abhorthe very name and memory of them, Not that he thought it unlawful to name theſe Idols, which is frequently done by holy Prophets, but to expreſs the odiouſneſs of the thing by his loathing of the very name aud ſhadow of them. Compare Exod: 23: 13« Deut. 12: 3: Hoſ: 2: 16, 17: Eph: 5,3, Or the Senſe is, I will not ſwear by them : For taking up ones name is uſed for ſwearing, Exod; 22 79. SOT 1 SHA -*The LORD # theportion F of mine inheritance and my cups s: thou maintaineſt my lot z. | _ r. Or; of my diviſan, i. e- Of that inheritance which God hath mercifully divided, or diſtributed ro me, and which I by his grace have choſen for my ſeIF. I envy not the vaſt Riches and Glory of Idolaters, but do heartily rejoyce in God as my portion, :and deſire 20 better nor no other Felicity. God who hath ſuffered other Na- tions to walk in their own Idolatrous ways, hath granted this fa- vour to me, to know and worſhip him the only true God. And as other Nations have choſen, and do adhereto their falſe Gods, ſo have I choſen God and will cleave to hims 5s The ſame thing re- peated in other words: The portion of my Cup, is the portion which 15 put into'my Cup, as the ancient manner was in feaſts, where each had his portion of Meat, and of Wine allotted to hims, See Pſa; 1!:6. The Cup oft denotesa Mans portion or Condition, as Mat: 20: 22e and 26: 39, # i. e. My inheritance divided to me by lor, as the Cuſtom then was, Joſ.18; 1i: Jag: I. 3... 4. d. As thou haſt
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People, an1 in that place which thou haſt chofen for thy dwelling. and worſhip, ſo, I doubt nor, thou wilſt uphold and preſerve me there, in ſpight of all the malicious deſigns ofmine enemies that ſeek to drive me hences _ | "LE |
6 * The lines « are fallen unto me in'pleaſant places ;
yea,T have a goodly heritage.
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Honey, and above all bleſſed with the Preſence and Knowledge,and Service of thetrue God;