u Joyned with my Prayers, Ke, 5: 7: x Though I be not only a Native, but either anointed, or a@ually King of this Land, yet 1n Truth I am but a Stranger, beth in re:ard of my very uncertain and ſhort continuance here, where T am only in' my Journey or Paſſ:ge to my real and long Home, which is in the other World z ard in reſpe& of th: many wants, and hardſhips, and contempts, and 10+- ries to which I am expoſed, as men uſually are in ſtrange Lands. And theretoreI greatly need and defire thy pity and help, Oh thou who art the Patron of Strangers whom thou haſt commended to aurcare and kindneſs, Exed 12: 48: Lev: 19. 33. and 25: 35, &c, » Either x. In thy ſight or Judgment, and therefore truely. We are apt to tter our ſelves, and can hardly believe that we are but Strangers here, where we ſeem to have ſettled Habitations and Poſſefſions, bur thou knoweſt the Truth of the Buſineſs, that weare reaily ſuch, Or 2. [nthy La"d or Territory, in which ſojourn only by thy leave and favour, and during thy pleaſure, as this whole Phraſe is uſed. Levit 26: 23 wience theſe words are taken, as allo v: 35. 36, 39, 40, 45 47: where that branch of it, with thee, is ſo meant; And withal thiz Phraſe both here and Levit: 25: 23: may have a further Emphatis in it, implying that every Iſraclite, and particularly David himielf, in reſpe& of men, were the Proprietors or owners of their portions of which no other man might deprive or diſpoiſeſs them, and there- fore Davids Enemies had done wrongfully in baniſhing him from his and from che Lords inheritance 3 but yet in reſpett or God they were but ſtrangers, and God was the only Proprietor of it. q B thi thy Judgment exprefled Lev 25: 33: and in their own Opinion, Heb: x1: 13. &c: Upon which account tnou didft take 4 ſpecial care of them and therefore do ſo to me alſo.
12 Oſpare me || that I may recover ſtrength + before I go hence *, and be no more.
| Or, Ceaſe from me, ( i. e. _) From affliting me, do not deſtroy me. My Life at beſt is but ſhort and miſerable, as I have ſaid, and thou knoweſt, ſufficient for it 15 the evil thereof : do not add Aft- fliFion to the affl ed. f Both in my outward and inward man, both which are mvch weakned and opprefled. Or. that I may be re- freſhed, or comforted, eaſed of the burden of my fins, and thy terrours conſequent upon themy and be'ter prepared for a comfortable and happy diſſolution. * Heb. Befere 7 gs, to wit, unto the Grave, as this phraſe is uſed, Gen. 15: 2. and 25, 32. Or the way of allthe Earth, as the phraſe is compleated, of. 23, 14. or whence I ſhal not return, as it is 7ob 10. 21, or which is all one, into that place and ftate 1n which I ſhall not be, t wit, amongſt the Living, or in this World, as this Phrale is frequently vſed. both in Scripture, as Gen 5: 24: +nd 37 30. and 42; 36: and in Heathen Authors : Of which ſee my Latin £y. nopſ1s
PSAL., AL. The ARGUMENT.
His Pſalm is a Celebration of Geds great Goodneſs and Mercy & youchſated unto him, and all his People. It is cerrain arid e- vident that David ſpeaks ſomethings 'n this Book of ſal-rs, in his own Name and Perſon, and ſoimethi-gs in the Nameand Perſon of Chri/t, of whom he was an emivent Type za d that ſometimes he ſpeaks in both 'heſe Capacities in the ſame Pſalm 3 as ath been noted before, And thi: feemsto be the Condition of this ſulm : wherein there are ſome Paſſages which cannot belong to Chriſt, as v 13 and ſome which do not properly bel ng to David, or fo that time and fiate of the Church, but only to Chriſt, and to the Times of the New Teſtament, as v. 6. 7 ' To the chief mufician, A P/alm of D:vid; David by his own experien.e ſheweth the benefit of truſting in 50d, 1 — 6 Chriſts « bedience and Sac-tfice 6 --»—— 10 His ſufferings for Sin, his jervent Pr ayer, 11
I7, + Waited patiently « for the LORD, and he inclined
(tk in | b unto me, and heard my cry, wo 2 He brought me up alſo out of + an horrible pit c, fied « Fout of the miery clay d, and ſet my feer upon a rock e, Tio neije and elabiibed my goIngs f.
l.6dg, a Heb. In waiting I waited which doubling of the word, notes 12
that te waited diligently and earneſtly patiently and perſeveringly, untii God ſhuuld pleaſe to help him. + Or, bowed, to wit. himſelf, as this very word is rendred, Judg 16 3o or, his Fars as it 1s more fully exprefſed, Pſal. 17 6. and 31. 2, Such ellipte: or de- feQs are frequent in Scripture. as Pſal. 4.6. and 15, 1, Eccleſ 6: 3 and 7: 15: ce O;,, out of a ſounding pit, (o called, cjther, from the Clamours of Men, or Beaſts falling into it Or, from the
many Waters which fall down into it, not without a great Nyife |
I was not only upon the brink, butin the very Dottom of che Pit. (3. e. ) In deſparate Dangers and Calamities. as this "hiaſe fignifics, P/ſal. 18 16 and 6g. +4, 2, d In which vy feet ſtuck faſt ea place of ſtrength and ſatecv. fOr. my ſteps, / f.c: } Krpt me from ſtumblingor t-iling 1nto Miſchief,
2 And he hath put anew ſorg in my mouth g, ever praiſe unto our God : many thall {ve iz hb, and fear 5,and ſhall cruſt inthe LORD &,
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g Partly, by giving me new matter or occaſion for 2 Song ; and partly, by inipiring me with the very words of it. bþ (4 e.) Shall ob:eryve Gods wonderfull Mercies vouchſafed to me. i( 7 e. ) Shall ſtand in awe of that God, who by thisirſtavce they ſee to have ſo great Power, either to ſave or to defiroy, and tremble at his Judg- ments, and give him that Reverence and Worſhip, 2nd Obedience winch he requires, & Tet their Feir ſhall not drive ther fron God
or bring them into Delpair, but ſhall draw them to God, and be at- rended wiih truſting in God. ;
4 Bleiled 5s that man that maketh the LORD his truit /, and reſpecteth not 2 the proud », nor ſuch as
urn alide o tO lyes p.