13 The kings daughter c js all glorious within 4 ; her clothing #s of wrougnt gold e. Cc (t, e.) The Spouſe ; io cailcd cithergbecauſe ter of one King, and the Wife of another : Or be Wite 1s ſo netimes called the Hu bands Daughter ſuppoſed to be younger than hc ; pai ſubjeRion which ſhe oweth to him, and thac Fatherly Care and Affec« tton which he oweth to her. See 2 Saw. 12 3, Jer. 3. 4- $0 theBride- groom calls his Spouſe his Siſter, Cant 4g. i9 Thus Livia. the Wife of Auguſtus is called his Siſter, in anticat Coins. 4 wither, 1. Even in her cetiring Chambersia the Kings Palace, and not only when ſhe ſheweth her ſel! abroad Or rather, 2 In her Mind and Soul. or in {p:ritual Endowments theexccllent Vertues and Graces wherewith ſhe is accompliſhed, For 1. This is oppoſed to her outward Clothing. 2; This being ſo great and (o neceffary a quaiification of a worthy Spouſe; i 1s not likeiy it ſhould be omitted in her deſcription 8& commenda= :10n,. eſpecially when the Bridegroom is commended for his inward acc mpliſhments, as well as for his outward Glory, v. 4; 9; 3- The Church is this Bride, as hath been ſaid and proved before, _ whoſe true and chief Beauty is inward and fpiritual, and not conſiſting in outward pomp and glory. e Her inward PerfeRions do not reft within herz but break torch into vertuous and honourable ARions, wierewith ſhe is adorned 1n the view of the World. This ſuits well with the ſtyle of the Holy Scriptures, where; the Saiats are oft ſaid to be cloathed with Vertues and Vertuous Attioi:s, Sce Pſalm 132: 9, 1 Peter 5, 5?
14 She fhal be brought unto the king, f in raiment of needle-work: the virgins her companions g that fol- low her ſhal be brought unto thee.
f He alludes to the Cuſtom of con{ufting the Bride to the Bride: grooms Houſe, g ( 7. e.) Her Bride-maidens attending upon her,cal- led her honourable Woren. v. 9. C where ſce the Notes ) and here Vir- gins, becauſe of their Spiritual Purity and Chaſtity, 2 Cor. x1. 2. ©
I5 With gladneſs and rejoycing b ſhal they bebroughts they ſhal enter into the Kings palace,
h Full of Joy for the Slory and Felicity of the Bride and Bride«
groom, and for the comfort and benefit which redoundeth to them< ſelyes from it, |
16 In ſtead of thy fathers ſhal be thy children whom thou mayeſt make princes in all the earth 5.
i Having direftcd his Specch to the Bride, he now returns to the Bridegroom, as may be gathered both from the Hebrew words, which are of the Maſculine Gender; and from the next Verſe, w hich unqueſtionably belopgs unto him : Yet fo that he ſuppoſeth the Bride to be concerned, and partakes with him in the privcledge here mentioned, and the Children to be comn:0n to them both. And therefore this Verſe and P{alm cannot be unde:fiood of Solo- men, and his Marriage with Pharaohs Daughter, becauſe he had no Children by her, and but very few by all his Wives' and Concu- bines; and his Children were ſo far from exceeding their Parents
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the Earth, as is here faid, that they enjoyed but « ſmai part of their
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their Fathers, and intirely give up themſcives to Chriſt to be infiru- ed by him, and to receive his Do@rine, -though it would ſeem new to them. And by theſe Words he ſeems to intimate and tacitly to fortel that not onely theSuperftitious inventions and Traditions of Men, but even the legal Worſhip app»inted by Moſes, and delivered to them from their Parents, ſucceſſively for many Generations ſhould be relinquiſhed by the believing Jews, and abolifked by Chriſt's com-
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17 I will make thy name to be remembred in all ge- | exalted : among the heathen, I will be exalted in the nerations & : therefore ſbalthe people praiſe thee for c- earth»
verand ever. + 11 The LORD of hoſts 7s with us,the God of Ja- ' & As. ke began the Pſalm with the Gelebration of the Kings Praiſes, cob zs our refuge. Selah. : EEE: "fo now he endeth withit, and adds this importantCircumſtance,that 7 He ſpeaks cither, I: To the Iraeliets, be flill ( fee.) Do you "this Nuptial Song ſhould not only ſerve for the preſent Solemnity, henceforth ſently and quietly wait upon me without Fear or Diffi« as others of that kind do, but that it ſhould be rememvred and ſung | denc® Or rather 2, To the Heathen, who had Raged, v, 6. and {n all ſucceſſive Generations, Which plainly ſheweth that it was not therefore now he ſcaſonably admoniſheth them to be f/lill, and or ſin Compoſed upon ſuch a ſlight and tranſitoric occaſion, as that of Solo-| to ſtir no more againſt Gods people. s The only true and al- Maſcl -n00s Martiage with Phardobs Daughter, which was foon forgotten, | mighty God; and your Gods are but dumb and impotent Idols, Plal, and the Iſracliets had little cauſe to remember it withany ſatisfa&i-| * (27. e.) I will make my ſelf glorious by my great and wonderful on ; but upon that greatand glorious and everlaſting Marriage between | Works. |
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Chriſt and his Church; of which this is moſt properly and literally ve- P $S A L. AEVH. het The ARGUMENT. PSA L. XLYL His aes may ſeem to have bee: Compoſed upon the occaſion of | ; th at great Solemnity of carying the Ark from the Houſ, The ARGUME NT. id 8 Chr
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