I Sa7. 17. 44, 46. and oft threarned by God as a grievous Curſe, as Deut, 28. 26. Jer. 7, 33. and 16. 4. Oc. Neither let any think it ſtrange, that the Name of People is given to thele Creatures, for it 1s given to Connies, Graſhoppers, Piſmires, &c. both in Scripture, as Prov. 30. 25, 26. Joel 6. and in Homer, and otherAntient profane Writers, Nay, here is an elegancy in the Expreſſion ; for theſe Creatures are tignificantly called t/: People of rhe Wilderneſs, becauſe they are the only People that inhabited it, this being # Wilderneſs wherein was uo Man, as is ſaid Job 358. 26.
15 * Thou didft cleave the fountain and the flood » ; * py x * thou driedſt up F mighty rivers 0. Numb
2 i» e. Thou didſt by cleaving the Reck, make a Fountain in it, 20+ IN, and a flood or ſtream to flow from it, for the refreſhment of thy Pſ. 105. Peoplc in thoſe dry Deſerts. "The Phraſe is like that Iſa. 47. 2.Grind If. 48: meat, i.e. By grinding the Corn, make Meal. o Either, :. Joraon, * Joſh. which was then more mighty than ordinarily, as having overflow. 3+ 13- ed ajl his Banks, and therefore may be called Rivers, becauſe it was tf Heb- now equivalent to two or three ſuch Rivers ; or it is only an Enal- vers of lage of the Plural Number for the Singular, whereof I have given ſirength« many inſtances formerly. Or rather, 2. Both Jordan and the Red . Sea, for the Seair ſelf; yea, a greater Sea than .that, is called x R:wer, Jonah 2. 3, for the Hebrew word is the ſame which is here uſed, though there it be rendred Foods. And the ſame Title is ex- preſly given tothe Sea, by Homer and other antient Writers. To theſe the Antient Chaldee Tnterpreter addeth the Rivers of or and Jabbok, in or about which ſomeextraordinary work was wroughr yea ſomething which was like Gods work at theRedSea,as may ſeem by the conjunttion of theſe together, Num. 27. 24.
16 The day s thine, the night alſo 5s thine p 3 thou haſt prepared q þ the light r and the ſun.
Þ Ir is notſtrange nor incredible that thou haſt done theſe great f Heb and wonderful Works, for thou haſt made the Heavenly Bodies and £7" the viciſſitudes of day and night, depending upon them, which 54 *#t is a far greater work. q Or rather, Eſtabl'ſbea, as this word oft ſig- *%* nifies; not only Creat.d. but ſettled in a conftane and orderly courte. r Either, 1. That primitive light, Gen. 1. 3- which afte;- wards was condenſed and gathered into the Sun. Or rather, 2 The Moon, as divers, both Antient and Modern Interpreters under- ſtand it, called here the Light, to wit, the lefler Luminary or Light , wherein there is either a Synecdoche of the general for the particular, or an Ellipfis of the AdjeCtive, both which Figures are very uſual, And thar the leffer Light is here meant, may fe m pro- babie, both becauſe it is oppoſed to the greater Light, the Sun here following ; and becauſe rhis is to rule the Night, as the Sun is to rule the Day, Gen. 1. 16. and fo this Clauſe anſwereth to, and explaineth the former, wherein both Day and Night are mention: ed
17 Thou haſt ſet all the borders of the earth s : thou haſt F made ſummer and winter. + Heb s Thou haſt fixed the bounds, both of the habitable World in ws
general, ſo as the Seas, though they do encompaſs and affaulr them, wade
| are fitly alleadged asa motive to God, that he would at this time
yet they ſhall never be able to remove them, and of all the Coun- — tries and People upon Exrth, whom thou haſt confined to ſuch bounds as thou ſeeſt fir. Andas this Clauſe of the Verſe ſhewerh Gods Power and Government over a'l places, fo the nexr Clauſe diſpays his dominion overall times and ſeaſons. And both together
take care of his poor people,and reſtore them to their antient Land and Borders, in which he had been pleaſed to ſet them.
18 * Remember this, that the enemy hath reproack+ ; <. . J.. ed thee, O LORD , and that the fooliſh people # have * V5? blaſphemed thy name. x |
£ Though we deſerve to be forgotten and deſtroyed, yet remem-
ber thy ſelf. and do nor ſuffer thineand our Enemies to reproach and blaſpheme the Name of that great and glorious God, the Crea« tor and Soveraign Lord of the whole World, whom they ovght al- ways to reverence and adore. » Who, though they think them- ſelves, and are thought by others to be wiſe, yer in truth are fools, and herein ſhew their ſtupendions folly, that they. vilifie and pro- voke that God, whoſe powerful anger they can neither reſiſt, nor eſcape, nor endure,
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meek, and faithfu], and mournful, and expoſed ro manifold Inju-
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preflion, and Tyranny, under which we groan 1n all the parts
this great Empire, where we have our abode.
21 O let not the oppreſſed return
the poor and needy praiſe thy name.
a 3 rom thee, and from. the Throne of thy Grace, to which they make their reſort in this their diſtreſſed Condition. -
22 Ariſe, O God, plead thine own cauſe e ; * re-
member how thefooliſh man reproacheth thee daily.