have,nor chuſe,or defire any other Portion or Felicity,as it follows.x 20: 20, Provi
as Food and Raiment, but with thy choiceſt and moſt precious good things, ſuch as men uſe to hide or keep in their treaſures, with extraordi- Wea'th and G'ory, and all the Delights and Comforts of the pre- ſent Life. 2 When many of the faithful Servants are barrenztheſe Or, their Children are filled
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my high tower. | e To which I flee for refuge, as the
whoſe ſtrength lyes in their Horns. The Horn is ofc as P/a: 92.10: Amos 6.13: and elſewhere,
praiſed fo thall I be ſaved g from mine enemies. g Or, 1didcall and was ſaved. For the Furure
are of another Nature. 4 I donor place my portion in earthly and ajready received.
remporal Treaſures, as they do, but in bebolding God's face, 1-e. In the enjoyment of Gods preſence and favour 3- which is indeed en- joyed in part ia this Life, but not fully and ro Satisfaftion, © which David here ſpeaks, a+ appears from the laſt Clauſe of this Vecſe ; The ſight of God, and of his face, being frequently ſpoken of both in the Old and New-Teſtament, as a privi]ledge denied even to the Saints. in this Life and peculiar to the next Life, as1s manifeſt from Exod. 33' 20: Fudg. 13: 22; Mat 5: 8. 1 Cor: 13: 12: 2 Core 3: 8: 1John3: 2, c With the Comfort of a good Conſcience, bearing me Witneſs thar, no:withitanding all the Ca- Jlumnies and Cenſures ofmine Enemies, I have been, and am up- right and righteous in the courte of my Life,both rowards thee and towards al men. Which Teſtimony will enable me to look God1n the Face wich boldneſs, when mine Enemies, being Conſcious to themſelves of groſs and manifo!d uncighteouſneſs towards thee and me, and others, will be afraid ro appar in thy Preſence, d Iam now greatly diſtreſſed and diffarisfied, and mine Enemies are filled and Frisfied with good things ; buc my rurn will come, the time is coming wherzin I ſhall beabundantly farisfied, to wit, with be- holding thy Face, whichis to me more comfortable and fatisfaCto- ry than all the Poſſeſſions of this World. e Either 1. When I ſhall de delivered from my preſent Diſtreſſes and C-lamiries. But theſe never are in Scripture, nor indeed can fitly be called by the name of Sleep, which is every where ſpoken of as a'ftate of reſt, and quietneſs; as Pſal. 127: 2: John 121: 12, 13: and conſequently de- liverance from them, cannot be compared to awaking. Or rather,
called Sleep both in Scripture, as 1 Kings 1» 21: Iſ#. 26: 195 Jer. Fr 39, 57: Dau: 1252: John 11: 11, 13: and in other Authors ; and conſequently ReſurreCtion from the Dead, is juſtly and ficly called an ewaking, as it is Job 14: 12: Dan: 12: 2: John 11; 11: And fince the Dottrine of the ReſurreC&tion of the Juſt to a bleſſed and endleſs Life was not unknown to the Holy Men of God in the Old Teſtament,as it were very eaſfie to prove,nor to David in par- | ticular, as appears from Pſal:_ 16: 10,11- and from divers other paſſages, it cannot be imagined but David would Support jon|
thereof, this being incomparably the moſt weighty and eff=<Ctual Argument and gronnd of Comfort, which he could poſſibly uſe. And this alſo beſt ſuits with the Context ; for Davids here oppo- fing his hopes and portion to that of his Enemies, and having no- ted, not without a ſecret refleQion and reproach upon them for ir, that their portion was in this life, v. 14: ir was moſt Conſonant to the place and to the thing ir ſelf, thar lie ſhould ſeek and have his Happineſs in the future Life, f Or, Imege. By which may be un- derſtood either, 1. Chriſt, the Son of God, who was known te David and other Prophets, as is evident, and that under the name ofthe Son of God, Pſal: 2; 17, 12: Prov 40; 4: Hoſ. 11. 1: compare with Mat, 2:15: who being exa&ly like to his Father, might moft ficly be called his likeneſs or image, as he is, Heb. 1:3, Or 2. the image of God ſtamped upon tis glorified Soul ; which muſt needs afford him infinite delight and ſatisfat.on. Or 3; God himſelf, or the Face of God menrioned in the former Clauſe, and explained here by another Phraſe, asis very ufual in theſe Writings. And this nrerpretarion may receive ftrength from Nam. 12: 8: where be- bilding the ſimil: tude of the Lord is evidently th: ſame thing, which 13. elſewhere called ſeeing his face, and from Heb: 10: 13 where the 7mage doth not note the likeneſs or repreſentation, bur the truth ad exiſtence of the thing.
PSA LL. XYHE. The ARGUMENT.
His Pſalm, with ſome few and ſmall Variations is written,
.Þ 2 Saw 22. Ir was compoſed by David towards the end of bis
Reign and Life upon the occalion here mentioned.
Fo the chief mulician, 4 P/a/m of David,the ſervant of the LORD -, who ſpake unto the LORD the words of * this ſong, in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the
hand of Saul b: And he ſaid : |
s Who eſteemeth it a greater Honour tobe thy Servant,than to be King of 1-4], 'and who doth intirely devote himſelf to thy Ser- | vice and Glory. - b 1,e After the Death of Saul, and the Con- queſt of a lhis ſucceeding Egemues,” and his own firm: eſtabliſh- ment un his Kingdoms
of
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ger, The ſame thing expreſſed in other words. ... - -
The forrows of death b compaſſed me, and the floods of F ungodly meni made me afraid : |
upon me. Compare Pſal: 53: 4+ #5 Their great mulritudcs and ſtrength, and violent aſſaults, breaking inuponme like aFlood, . 5 The || ſorrows of heli & compaiſed me about : the ſnares of death prevented me /.. _. eee k Or, of cheGrave, which brought me to the brink of the Grave. I Hadalmoſt takenhold of me, ere I was aware of my danger.
unto my God ; he heard my voice out of his*temple m, and my cry came before him, evex unto his ears.
or dire&ed thither. Or 2. Out of his Heavenly Habiration, which is oft called his Temple ; ſee on P/al: 11 4. | | 7 Thenthe earth ſhook and trembled », the founda-
he was wrotb, | | » Then God appeared oh my behalf
mies. which is here compared to an Earthquake. o The Earthquake wasſodeep and violent, that it overthrew whole Mountains by che
being, oft compared tro Mountains, as P/#k 46: 3, 4. and 144: 5, 1ſa; 41:15: &e. | |
by + itg. manifeſted his great diſpleaſure againſt my Adverſaies. qg Which
notes the fervency, conſtancy and efficacy of his anger.