” In the knowledge and remembrance of thy name, (i. e.) Of thy infinite power and goodneſs, revealed and imparted to them, n» Whereby thou art both inclined, and in ſome {orr, engaged trq_ hear the Prayers of thy people, and to fave them from all their Enemies. MY .” |
' 17 For thou art the glory of their ſtrength 0: and in thy favour our horn ſhall be exalted p, _ = _ o All that ſtrength in which they do or may glory is not their own, bur is a meer vouchſafement of thy Grace, and to thee alone belongs the G!ory of all their valiant Archievements. þ i. e« Our Power and Honour, which now lies in the duſt, ſhall be raiſed and recovered. Re SE
18 Forqſ|the LORD 3: our defence : and the holy jg, 6: one of Hracl ear Kinge. ... ...- -; ſhield is of
q This verſe give a reaſon of the Pſalmiſts confidence that their :he LORD, horn would be exalted. » Having therefore ſo potent a friend, and our we have no reaſon to deſpair of our reſtitution to our former X:ng ir of felicity. Or, as the words may well be, and are by divets, ren- he holy On dred, Of or From the Lord is or was our ſhield, ( to wit, our King, of Ira, as it is explained in the next branch of the verſe, compared with Pſalm 47. 10.) and of or from the holy One of Iſrael, ( i.e. the Lord; who is oft ſo called) is or was our King. He gave us our King and Royal Family at firſt, and therefore he can eaſily reſtore it whent he ſees it fit. he ets | |
19 Then s thou ſpakeſt in viſion # tothy holy one «, and faidſt, I have laid help x upon one that is mighty y ; I have exalted oze choſen out of the people z.
s (i.e.) Of old: For this Particle is ſometimes put indefinitely, i
Or, Then when thou didſt ſet David in the Throne. £ Which then was the uſual way. by which God ſpake to the Prophets, Numb. 12. 6. « To thy holy Prophets; the ſingular number being put for the plural ; Eſpecially to Samuel and Nathan; for part of the follow- ing meſſage was delivered to the former, and part to the latter! x I have provided help and relief for my peole which I have pur into ſafe hands. y Upon a perſon of ſingular courage and wiſdom, and every way fit for fo great a charge. z One whom I have pickt and choten out ofall the people, as the fitteſt for the Kingly Office; one enriched with eminenc Gifts and Graces, &c. RE
20 * IT have found 4 David my ſervant: with my , ; bank; 16. 12»
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8 This is ſpoken of God figuratively afrer the manner of men, to imply the great ſcarcity of ſuch Perſons, and the difficulty of finding them out. 65 Both with material oy1, 1 Sam. 16. 13. 2 Sam. 5. 3- and with the Gifts and Graces of my holy Spirit, which are oft ſignified by oyl or union, as Pſalm 45, 8. compared with Heb,
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and plague them that hate him. | - 24 But my * faithfulneſs and my mercy him f: and in my name g ſhall his horn be exalted.
f Faithfulneſs in making good all my promiſes to him; and mercy either in doing more for him than I have promiſed, or in pardon=- ing his ſins, for which I might juſtly make him ro know my breach of promiſe. g By my favour and help. Big:
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1 He ſhall find me to be a true and akind Father to him, and ſhall familiarly and confidently make his addreſſes to me as ſuch, for all neceſſary ſupplies and aſhiſtances, which Parents willingly affoord to their children. as need requires. ; |
25 And I will make him my tirſt-born m, higher than
the kings of the earth ». | : m As he calls me Father, verſe 26. ſo I will make him my ſon, ea my firſt-born ; who had divers priviledges above other ſons. This and the following paſſage in ſome ſort agree to David, who may well be called God's firi-born, as all the people of 1[rael are, Exed, 4. 22. and ſo is Ephraim, Jer. 31. 9. Nor can I ſee fit wholly to exclude David here, of whom all the foregoing and following Verſes may, and ſome of them muſt be, underſtood. Burt this 1s more fully and properly accompliſhed in Chriſt, and ſeems to be aſcribed to David here as a Type of Chriſt, and that our minds might be led through David ro him whom David repreſented, c- ven to the Meflias, to whom alone this doth ſtriſtly and literally belong. » This alſo was in ſome ſort accompliſhed 1n David, part- ly becauſe he had a greater power and dominion than any of the Neighbouring Kings, yea than any other Kings of his = and in thoſe parts of the world, except the 4ſjrian Monarch 3 Nor 1s the expreſſion here univerſal, but indefinite, and if it had been ſaid, higher than all the Kings, yet even ſuch univerſal Expreſſions admit ot ſome limitation or exception, as is manifelt and confeſſed : And partly, becauſe Devid had many priviledges wherein he did excel all other Kings of the Earth of his age without exception; which probably he did in the honourand renown which he got by hismi- litary Archievements; and by that Wiſdom and Juſtice wherewith hemanaged all his Dominions, but certainly he did in this, that he was a King choſen and advanced by the immediate order and ap- pointmenr of God himſelf ; That he' was ſer over Gods own Pe- culiar and beloved people; that he was intruſted with the care and Patronage of the true Religion and the Worſhip of God in the World; and eſpecially that he was nor only an eminent Type, but