; Which intimates the ſmall beginnings of this Kingdom; and therefore doth not agree to Solomon, whoſe Kingdom was in a man- ncras Jarge at the beginning of his Reign, as at the End; Bur it exactly agrees to Chriſt and his Kingdom, Match: 13* 31, 32 k Sown in the Earth: 7 In the moſt Barren grounds; and there. fore this was an Evidence of extraordinary and prodigious Ferti. lity. 22 It ſhail yield ſuch abundance of Corn, that the Ears being thick and high, and full of Corn, ſhall, when they are ſhaken with the Wind, mike a noiſe not unlike that which the tops of the Trees of Lebanon, ſometimes make upon the like occaſion. Which Expreſſions, as well as many others of the like Nature in the Pro. phets, being applyed to Chciſt,are ro be underſtood in aSpiritual Senſe, of the great and happy Succeſs of the preaching of the Goſpel. » The Citizens of Jeruſalem, which are here Synecdochi- cally put for the Subje&s of this Kingdom. o Shall both increaſe 1N number, that there may be mouths to receive the Meart provid« cd, and enjoy great Proſperity and Happineſs:
17 His name pt ſhall endure for ever: + his name ſhall be continued q as long as the ſun r,and *m-e ſhall be
bleſſed in him s ; all nations ſhall call him bleſſed.
f The flonour and Renown ofhis eminent Wiſdom, and Juſtice, and Goodneſs. Which agrees bur very obſcurely, and imperfeQtly to Selomen, who tained the Glory of his Reign, by his prodigious Luxury and Oppreflion, and Apoſtacy from - God, into which he fell in the latter partof his Days. q Or, ſhall be Pripagated, or Tranſ= mitted to his Children, which ſuits much better to Chriſt, from whom we are called Chriſtians, than to Solomon. r Heb. Before the Sun ; Either, 1. Publickly, and in the Face ofthe Sun. Or, 2. Per- petually, as a conſtant and inſeparable Companion of the Sun ; as long as the Sun it ſelf ſhall continue. £fee before on verſe Go s Either, r. As a Patern of Bleſſedneſs. When any Man ſhall with well to aKing, he ſhall fay : The Lord make thee like Solomon. Sec on Gen. 22, 18. Or rather, 2. As the Cauſe of it, by and through his Merits and Mediation.
18 Bleſſed be the LORD God, the God of Iſrael, who only doth wondrous things *.
# Who hath given to his people ſuch a Glorious and excelle. it King and Governour, and ſuch wonderful Bleflings as they do, and ſhall enjoy under his Government.
I9: And bleſſed be his glorious name for ever, and let
the whole earth be filled with his glory «, Amen and amen. # Heb. The whole Earth ſhall be filed with hu Glory. For this may - be either a Prayer for, or a Prophecy of the ſpreading of the true 'Religion in the Gentile-World. Which evidently relates to Chriſt and his Kingdom. 20 The -prayers of David the ſon of Jeſle are ended x. x This Pſalm is called the laſt of David's Pſalms (which are xalled Prayers, becauſe they conſiſt very much of Prayers) Either, 1. The laſt of that Part, or Book of the Pſalms, which reached from the beginning of the Pſalms kitherto, whereof the far great- eft number were compoted by David, and all of them digeſted into this Order; The reſt of which follow, being Colle&ed by ſome other holy Man, or Men of God after Pavid's Death, and Compoſed part by Devid, and part by other Prophets. Or rather, 2. The Jaſt Palm which Pavia Compoſed: For this was done but - before his Death, of which ſee the firſt Note on this alin.
SG WEN The ARGUMENT. He SubjeQ of this P/alm is the ſame with Pſalm 37. concerns ing the promiſcuous Carriage of God's Providence towards good and bad Mcu. i! 4 Pſalm of Aſaph a.
a Or, For A'ap;, the famous Muſician, to whom divers of Davi7's Pſalms were committed, as Pſalm <0, 1, &c. But becauſe Aſaph was not only a ski]ful Matician, but alto was Divinely inſpired, and the Author of ſome Palms, as is manifeſt from 2 Chron. 29. 30 and the Style of this Pfalm may ſeem ro be ſomething differs wg from that of David, ir may be thonght not improbable that Ajaph was the Author or Pen-man of it.
The Propiies under Temptation by reajon of wicked Mens proſperity, 1=—121 His d'ffidence thereupon, 17 16, His way t0 overcome ſuc? Temptations, 1. &. The knuwledg ec of God's Purpoſe in deftroying the Wits hed, 17 mm 25. And that the Fai:lj.:1 might be contented alone with God, and communion with him. 5 1 ennwnnas 2,
+ of a clean heart d. b Or, Neverthelzſs. intimates that he had a great Conflict within himſelf abour this Matter, and that many Doubts and ObjcEions were raiſed in his mind concerning it, But at ]iſt he breaks forth like the Sun our of a Cloud, and having by God's Grace filenced and conquered his
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reſent and ſeeming Felicity. 4 To all true I/rae!;tes, who love God with their whole Heart, and ſerve him in Spirit and Truth, and Uprightneſs. See John 4: 43: Rom. 2: 28, 29. So this Clauſe limits the former, and takes off a great part of the force of the Objefion, even all that concerns the Calamities which befel the profane or falſe-hearted Iſraelites, which were vaſtly the greateſt number of that people.
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