(7. e-) Affually impart and diſcover them ; ſeemeſt to conceal and with-hold them from me. oo 44 "kw "as vour, or the Light of thy Cauntenance, ard the Truth of thy Promi- ſes made to me ; as Gods Mercy and Truth oft g2 together, as 2 Sam. IS. 20, Pſals 61. 9. and 89. 14.&c, Or this may be a Figure called Hendiadis, whereby Light and Truth is put either for the Light of Gods Trath ; or rather, for true Light, the Illumination of Gods Spicit, and the direQtion of his gracious providence, whereby he might be led C as it follows |) in the right way, which would bring him to Gods holy Hill. þ Towit of Zt#n, the place of Gods Preſence and Worſhip; z (7. e. ) Tabernacle. Which he calls Tabernacles, either, x. Becauſz there were now two Tabernacles, one at Zion, where the Ark was : and another at Gibeon- 1 Chron, 16. 37, 39, Although he here ſeemsto ſpeak bur of one of them, even of that whieb was upon Gods holy Hill Or 2. Becauſe of the ſeveral parts of it, the meſt Holy, and the Ho! place, and the Church. Theſe indeea were is that of Gibeon, but a 10 that of Zion. Or rather 3, Bya meer Enallage of the number the plural for the ſingular 3 which is frequent as in other words ſo in thoſe which belong to this matter, a+ Tabernacles, Pal. 46. 4.and Santtuaries, Levit. 26, 21. Pſal. 73. 17: (5c. and 74. 9. Jer. 51. 5!, Nay the moſtHoly place, though but one ſimple part is by the Greeks called Holzes. So in other Authors, we read the Rivers of Ni-
lus, of that one River; and Right hands, for one Righ : many like Phraſes. , 5 » c lp t hand . and
: 4 Then _ I go _ the altar of God &, unto God f Heb, the my exceeding joy /: yea, uponthe harp will I praiſe 44s thes, O:Geid, rey Biel. mo pranks Lone
5 * Why art thou caſt down, O my ſoul ? and why 1 art thou diſquieted within me ? hope in God, for I ſhal
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k To offer Sacrifices of Thanksgiving for my Deliverance. principal Author and Matter of all wy hoy avd Comfort.
P SAL. XLIIV. The ARGUMENT.
=O. is no certainty, either concerning the Author,or the particus R lar occaſion of this Pſalm. This is evident that it was Compoſed with reſpe@ unto the Calamatious Condition of the Church and Peo- ple of 1ſrae!, whom it ſuppoleth tobe in a ſtate of Captivity and Per- lecution- Bnt whether it was made by David, who forciaw and foret«1d by the Spirit of Gad, their futureCaptivity,& framed tor this their uſe in that Eſtate zor-by ſome other holy man of God, when they were aCtu-
aily in this Condition, is not determined, nor necefſarie to know for the underſtagding of it,
Tothe chief muſician for the ſons of Korah Maſchil. The Church Commemerates paſt Mercies, 1, 2, The Arm of God, not the Sword of i1rael put them in poſieſſion of the 1 and, 3. Their tru$ is in God, not in their Bow 4 -—- 8, They complain of divers Troubles, 9 —16. Toer Sin the cauſe of their groubles, x7, 18, They pre- feſs their integrity, 1g - 22, A f.rvent Prayer for help, 23
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; have told us, what work thou didſt in their days a, in the times of old. 4 They alledge their former Experiences, as Encouragm cop Faith, and Motives to bod. ts continue to be des chem. . - | ; ; Exod, 2 How * thou didft drive out the heathen 5 with thy 14: 15: hand, and plantedſt them c ; how thou didſt afic the P1755 people, and caſt them out g. TInN b The Canaanites, c To wit, our Fathers, cafi! from the matter, and from v. 1, where they cn mn" 06a ya Pronoun being referred unto the remoter 8antecedent, as it Is Gen. 10; 12, and 19, 13. Pſalm 18 15, and oft e!ſwhere. d So thew muſt be the People or Reathens, But becauſe the comparirg of this branch of th: Verſe with the former, #lanteift them, to which this anſwers, and with the following, they, makes it more than pro- bable, that this them, belongs to the Fathers, this is to be other. wiſe rendred, either, x, Thus ſend thew ou?, to wit, free or mas numitted out of Egypt, of which this ſame Verb is uſed, Exodus g: I. and 12, 33- And then the foregoing People are the E; yptians- not the : anaanztes, Which yet ſeems not to agree with the. forego- ing aod foliowing patlages, both which ſpeak of the Canaanites only nor with the order of the words in the Verſe, it being improper to mention their coming out of Egypt, after their bein planted in Cana- an. Or rather, 2. Thus make them ſend or ſhoot forth, to wit. Bran- ches, as 1t is more fully expreſſed, Pſalm 80, 11, Ezekiel 17 6. where this Verb is uſed. And this moſt Naturally and properly fol- lows upon and after their */anting mentioned in the former Clauſe.
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5 Th rough thee will we puſh down h our enemies ; through thy name z will we tread chem under that riſe up againſt us,
h Heb, Smite with the Horn, ( 7. e. ) Subdue and deſtroy. The Phraſe is taken from Dext. 33. 17. & is borrowed from hornedBeafts, comp. 1 Kings 22: It (7. e-) B+ the help of thy power,
6 For I will not truſt in my bow &, neither (hal my ſword {ave me.
k Bur in thee only,as the next verſe implies; and therefore do not fruſtrate my Hope and Confidence fixed upon thee.
7 But thou haſt ſaved us from our enemies, and haſt put them to ſhame that hated us.
8 In God we boaſt / all the day long, and praiſe
pfal,60- 9 But * thou haſt caſt us off ,, and put us to ſhame 1,16 - # 3 and goeſt not forth with our armies 6. x 14. 1 m But now thy Countenance and Courſe is quite changed tous. 1
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