e Heb, If I haveor had ſeen, or looked upon, to wit, with approba- tion and affeQion, as Job 31. 26. Hab. 1, 83, Men look upon what they like, and turn away their Face from what they loath or hate. f Any ſin whatſoever, andeſpecially 1dolatry, whick is oft expreſſed by this Word, to which the J/raelites were very prone,and to which they had moſt powerful Temptations from the Examples,and Coun- ſels, and Promiſes, and Threats of the Idolaters, in whoſe Land
ſelves from that Crime, ſomewhat like that Pſal. 44. 26, 21. and in general, from thoſe groſs and Reigning ſins, whereof they had been guilty formerly. gs Ifmy Heart was falſe to God, and did cleave to Idols, or toany Wickedneſs, although I might for ſome pruden- -| tia) Reaſons forbear the groſs and outward As. Compare 2/al. | 44- 17, 18. If I had been guilty of that Hypocriſie, wherewith
through the floodb on foot;there didwe j1ejoyce in him.
þ Or River, to wit, Jordan. # ie. Our Nation, or our Anceſt- ors, in whoſe Loyns we then were, and the Benefit of which An- tient Deliverance we at this day enjoy. See the like Expreſſions, Pſal, $1. 5. Hoſes 12. 4 Thewhole people of Ira are oft Con-
mine Enemies charged me, and had been a ſecret Favourer of Wic- kedneſs when I pretended great Piety, Or, If I did not Cry unto God with my Heart, but only howled for Corn and Wine, &c.
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pon ſin,or T deſired only that which Ireſolved in my Heart to ſpend | upon my Luſts. þ Or, Would not have heard me ; as divers learned Interpreters tranſlate it, the Future being put Potentially, as is u- ſual among the Hebrews. For God heareth not ſinners, John 2. 31. nor Hypocrites, Job 27. 8, 9 Prov, 15+ 290
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20 Bleifed be God, which hath not turned away & my prayer, nor his mercy | from me.
k Or, reje&ed or removed, to wit, from his fight and Audience, but hath received and granted it. / Though he had now afſerted his own Innocency, aud fincere-Piety,yet he imputeth not God's hearing of his Prayers to that, but tolely unto Cod's Grace and
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1 L M $ Pal. LXVIL Church, conſiſting of Javeand Gentiles, and that the legal Admini- | ſtrations and Aftions were Types of thoſe of the Goſpel, he there- "of fore by the Spirit of prophecy, looked thorough and beyond the F preſent A&tions and "Types, unto the great Myftcries of Chriſt's Reſurre&ion and Aſcenſion into Heayen, and of the ſpecial privi- ledges of the Chriſtian Church, and of the Converſion of the G:t- tiles unto God, and therefore intermixeth ſome paſſages, which di- realy and immedaatly belong to theſe things, aithough the Words be ſo ordered, that they carry a manifeſt Alluſion to the preſent AQions, and may in ſome ſort be applied to them, though in a more obſcure and improper and ſecondary Sence. , Nor is it at all ſtrange, that in the ſame Pſalm there is tuch a mixture of things, whereof ſome belong only to the Aftions or Events of that time, and ſome only to Chriſt, and the Goſpel times ; if it be conſidered, that the Pſalmiſt in himſelf doth frequenily expreſs divers, and thoſe contrary Paſſions and Diſpoſitions, as Hope and Fear, 8&c- in the ſame Pjalm, and ſometimes in the ſame Verte, and eſpecially that the ſacred Pen-Men in the Compoſition of theſe Writings were Men wholly inſpired and governed, and moved by the Holy Ghofſf,
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His Pſalm contains a Prayer for the Church of 1ſ-ael, as alſo
for the Gentile-World, whoſe Converſion he Prophetically deſcribes. - -
To the chief muſician on Neginoth, a Pſalm or Song.
The Church prayeth for the Enlargement of the Kingdom of God, 14 2. to the
Joy of the Nations, 3— 5, and for the increaſe of Spiritual and Temporal
Bleſſmgs, 6, 7.
OD be merciful unto us «, and bleſs us, and * cauſe his face to ſhine f upon us b- Selah.
# Thy People of Iſrael. b As thou haſt hid thy Face and Favcur from us, ſo now do thou maniteſt it to us. For the Phraſe ſee Num. 6G. 25, 26. P/al. 31. 16.
2 That thy way may be known upon earth c, 'thy
ſaving health among all nations.
c Nor do we deſire this Mercy only for our Comfort,but alſo for the Advancement of thy Glory, and the Propagation of the true Religion among a!l Nations, who by the Contemplation of thy Gracious and wonderful Works, to and for us, will be induced to Love and ſerve thee, and to liſt themſelves among thy People. By God's way he underſtands; Either, 1, That way wherein God Walks; or the manner of his dealing with his people, how Gracious and bountiful a Maſter thou art to all thy Servants. Or rather, 2: That way wherein God requires Men to walk, the way of God's Precepts, the way of Truth, or the true Religion ; as the way or ways of the Lord, are frequently taken, Gen. 18. 19. Judg. 2+ 22. Pſal, 18. 2r1-and 119. 1. Atts 18. 25. 26,&c. the ſame whichin the next Clauſe is called his Saving Health, Heb Salvation, and both together ſignifie the way of Salvation, which the Ptalmiſt deſires may be known among all Nations ; which was expeCted by the Antient and godly Jews, at the coming of the Meſſas, whois called rhe way,