ftrafion, 5. The Righteous rejoyce at it, 6, He ſheweth the firength | flouriſh. z Either, r. In God's Church,
or among his People.
and hope of this wicked Man, 7@ But placeth his own Confidence and | Or, 2. In God's Tabernacle, from which Doeg ſhall be plucked a
Trufl in God, and praiſcth him, 8,
9. H Y boatteſt thou thy ſelf b in miſchief, Q | and Malice of this Man and his Confedera
way, verſe 5. and from which I am now baniſhed by the Tyranny tes; Bur, I doubr nor,
mighty man c ? the goodneſs of God endurerh | [hall be reſtored to it, and dwel in ir all the doys of my Life, which
;fleb ll F continually 4.
is the ons thing that I defire, Pſalm 27. 4.
b As if thou hadſt done a great Exploit, which none ele durft | . 9 1 "w_ praiſe thee for ever, becauſe thou haſt done undertake ; and thereby eſtabliſhed the Crown upon Saul's head, it *: and I will wait on thy name ||, for it 5s g00d be-
and thy ſelf in his Favour; and broken all David's Deſigns, by fore thy ſaints FT. --- | ſtriking a Terror into all his Favourers by this ſad Example. c He * 1 & Deſtroyed Dozg, and all mine and th
ine itnplacable Ene-
ſpeaks Ironically. O valiant Captain! O glorious Aion ! To kill | mies, and eſtabliſhed me in the Throne, and in thy Houſe ; OF wy
a few weak and unarmed Perſons in the King's preſence, and unde
r | which I am no leſs aſſured, than if it were already done. |jI will
the ProteCtion of his Guards. Surely thy Name will be Famousto | continue in thy way, placeing my whole Truſt and C ; all Ages, for ſuch Heroical Courage. 4 God's Love aid Favourto | thy Power and Goodnefſs, i Faithfalneſs, all which —_— his People, and in particular to me, is not fading and inconſtant, | God's Name, and not turn afide to any crooked paths for my De but everlaſting and unchangeable, and therefore not to be hindred } liverance, as others do, Pſalm 125. 5 & i-e: In the Eyes * thy
or defeated by any wicked deſign or praftices. And therctore | Saints They, whoſe Judgments only
though he hath permitted thee, and may do others to Rage for ſeaſon, yet he will defend, and in due time deliver his Peopie.
are to be valued, a Þ of this PraQtice, of truſting God, and keeping bis WAY as the iſe and ſafeſt Courſe, and have ever found it 1o to: be by their own +
2 Thy tongue deviſech e miſchiefs ; * like a ſharp | Experience ; However © Daeg and his Complices account it meer
folly, and the ready way to Ruin. + But the laſt Words of this
, CE ». | ſuit with the firſt Clauſe, 7 wil praiſe thee : Whi ful or prudent Man, Pſalm 78. laſt. This word implies that Doeg's of Praifo uſe, 1 will praiſe thee; Which ſurely was meant - Ky Oy ,; G raifing God publickly, or before the Saints : / . bras _ _ wes: _ _ — OE HO lows convenient Avel bn the amp eg _ =P _ merch unde wt det a anos” in the preſence of thy Saints, who ſhall plainly fee th en yi opportunity to execute; And therefore he readily took the firſt , plainly fee that I do fo by the
occalion which offered it ſe!f f Wherewith a man pretendin
= whole Courſe of my Life. And thoſe words, for it is good, may be
/ : incloſed within a Parentheſi : : | | only to ſhave off the Hair, doth ſuddenly and unexpe&edly cut the | 1? : S, as 15 very uſual in Scripture, and That, So Dorg pretended only to Vindicate himſelf from the may be referred; Either ro God's Name, for thy Name u good ; Oc
Imputation of Diſloyalty, 1 Sam 22-8, but rea'ly intend<d to ex- pole the Prieſts, who were Friends to David, to the King's fury
and cruelty.
tO W417 07 2t, for it is good to wait upon it.
PSAL LINE
3 Thou loveſt evil more than good g ; and lying 4 i ARGUMENT..--.-. -
rather than to ſpeak righteouſneſs z, Selah.
g Evil and Good may be here taken; Either i. Morally. Thou
loveſt Wickedneſs and not Goodneſs; for ſo comparatively paſſage
His P/alm,ſome few Words excepted,is wholly the £ : þ 2 Pſalm 14. and therefore the Reader muſt x anaghrormateg=c
. the Interpretation of it. And it is repeated ; Partly, be-
are oft meant, as P/al- 118+ 8+ 1t is better to frruft in the Lord, than _ _ _—— "= it is ſo important and neceſſary to be known to put confidence in man : (i: &) It is good to truſt God, bur it is not "bl apy "9s D rs partly, becauſe there aroſe ſome new and ſuit. good to truſt man; for this is abſolutely forbidden, Pſ#lm' 14g. | 23s 0ccation, W ich made David fing it a ſecond time, and that
3+ Jer, 17. 5- Or, 2. Phyſical.y- Thou loveſt to ſpeak or a&@ to
with ſome ſmall Alrerations. And the Compiler or Compilers of
- —_—Y ts - w_ the hurt and ruine of others, rather than to their Benefir. Thou | 24v/s s P/alms, had ſo greata Reverence for their Compoler, whom
mighteſt, withour any danger to thy ſelf, have been ſilent con
. | they knew to be guided by Divine Inſpiration, thar they would
cerning Abimelech's Fatt, or have put a favourable couſtruſtion upon. | 29f loſe any of his Fragments, and therefore*repeated rhis Pſalm
it; but thou haſt choſen rather to. miſeaepreſent and aggravate it.
with the Variations which he had made.
He ſaith, Thou loveſt, to imply that he did this not by any con- To the chief muſician upon Mahalath a,Maſchil, a P/alm ſtraint or neceſſity, but by choice, and with compl:cency. and of David. |
'out of alove to miſchicf. þ Whereof Doeg was guilty ; Partly, in | , This alſo ſeems to be the Name of a Muſic reporting that he (i- e. Abimelech) enquired of the Lord for him (David) Tune ; Wherein, as in the reſt of them, it is
al Inſtrument, or better to confeſs
1 Sam. 22. 10+ which he did not, Chap: 21- Where all that Hiftory our {gnorance, as the Hebrew Doors themſelves do, than to
is recorded; And partly, in putting a falle Interpretation upon ive way to vain and groundleſs conjetures about ther. »
what he did, in giving him Vittuals, and 4 Sword, as if he had done it | D&id deſcribeth the Atheiſm and Corrado of Men, &c. 7" I Plalm
knowingly, and in conſpiracy with _—_— and againit Saul, as ap- | 10. and 14 o ears by comparing Doeg's an{wer with Saul's enquiry, 1 Sam» 22. 7, ON EWET wn ' "20
3. ; = The whole and naked Truth, without any ſuch iying, | He fool = _ _ _ heart, There js NO God : *Pſ. 10,44
or malicious Comment upon it, which was but an A& of Juſtice, | , *, _ rUPT Are They, and nave done abominable in and 14. r,
due from thee to any Man, and much more on the behalf of ſo In- j 1qUITY : there is none that doth good. - &
nocent and Sacred a Perſon.
2 God looked down from heaven upon the children *Ro.3.10.