could no more deliver their Oracles, as Pletarch and other Hea- ſ, almiſt propounds to the Men of his Age, not as amatter of meer
thens obſerved with admiration, nor deceive the World, but were £ eculation, but as an Inſtruction for all atter Ages,and particular ly
forced to give place to the true God, and to the knowledge and or thoſe Iſraelites who ſhould live in the times of the Meſſastoar
worſhip of him alone, which was propagated among all Nations _y thould rake heed of falling aſter the ſame example of unbelief, as by the Goſpel. the Apoltle infers from this place, Heb, 4. 11.
\+Heb. 'w 4 Þ In his hand dare the deep places e of the earth : PSATL. XCVI.
zlſe, || the ſtrength of the hills f zs his alſo. : The ARGUMENT.
| Or, the 4 Under his Government. e Thoſe parts which are far out of b His Pſalm was compoſed by David upon occaſion, or at the brights of ens ſight and reach, and much more thoſe that are at Mens dif- time of the bringing of the Ark of God into the Tabernacle
which. David had prepared for it in Zion, as may be gathered by comparing it with 1 Chron. 16. 7, 23, 24, Ov. where almoſt the whole Pſalm is to be found, But as the Ark was an evident Type of the Meſſiah, which David very well knew, as hath been oft noted before ; ſo David's thoughts, or at leaſt the deſign of God's Spirit, which indited this Pſalm, was extended beyond and above it, even to the timesof the Meſsiah, and to his glorious and uniyerſal Kinge dom, in which not the Jews only but the heathen Nations alto ſhould worſhip the true God, and kiſs his Son the Meſiah,
thehils are yofal. t The ſtrongeſt or higheſt Mountains are under his feet and at his difpoſal. The ſenſe of the Verſe is, All the parts of the Earth, whether high or low, are ſubjeC to his power and provi. dence, and therefore it is not ſtrange if all rhe Nations of the Earth be brought to the Acknowledgement of him, and if the Gentiles receive his Goſpel. : ;
t Heb. 5 + The Sea is his, and he made it: and his hands for-
»hye th! ned the dry lands.
T_ 6 O come, let us worſhip, and bow down: let us | 4! the Inhabirants of the Earth and Sea are called to praiſe the Lord, for. kneel g before the LORD our maker, his great Honour and Majefly, 1 7+ for his wiſe governing the g By which expreſſions he teacheth, that even in Goſpel- World, 8 ——10. Heaven and Earth are called to rejoice before him, . times God is to be glorified and worſhiped as well with the Mem- for 29s righteous Judgment, 11----13. | "0 bers of our Bodies as with the faculties of our Souls. z () SINg untothe LORD a new ſong & 2 ſing unto 23; _ | rags. 7 Forhe 7s our God 6, and * we are the people of his the LORD all the earth 5. + | &83.1. & paſture 3, and the ihcep of his hand k; * to day 7 if ye | ' Upon this new and great occaſion, not the removal of the Ark,
wherein there was nothing new bur an inconfiderable circumſtance of Place, and that not yer fixed; but the coming of the Meſsiahg and the confirming of the New Covenant by his blood, and the | Calling of the Gentiles. 6 All the Nations of the Earth, who thall then partake of thole great Bleſdings and priviledges which are now peculiar to 1rael. Hog” _ 2 Sing unto the LORD, bleſs his name : ſhew forth his ſalvation c from day to day. c That great work of the Redemption and falvation of the World by the Metſsias. h 3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders
among all people 4. | 4 You who ſhall be called out cf all the Heathen Nations to the
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1&4. 7- nable ard abominable for us to forſake him when the Gentiles ſub- mit to his Law. 7 Whom he feedeth and keepeth in his own proper Pafure, or in the Land which he hath appropriated ro himlelf. k Which are under his ſpecial Care and Conduct or Government, which is oft expreſſed by zhe hand, as Numb, 4+ 28. and 31. 49. Judg. 9. 29. 1 i, e Foitiiwith or preſently, as this word ts uſed Deut. 4. 4, $: and 37. 9. Joſ+ 22. 16, 18, ©, Orthis day, in this ſolemn day of Grace or of the Goſpel; which the Pfalmilt ſpeaks of as preſent; according to the manner of the Prophets, And this word, though belonging to the following Clauſe, as appears from Hz:b. 3. 7. may ſeem to be thus placed, to ſhew rhar it had
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place may be this, We (Jews) are or ſhall be the people of his*
Paſture and the ſhzzp of his hand, God will ſtill own us for his people th:s day, i. e. In the days of the Mcſſhah, if -h:s day, or in that time, we ſhall hear his woice, Otherways God will reject us and re- ceive the Gentiles in our ſtead. m If you will hearken to his call and obey his further Commands. Which may be added as a necef- fary caution and admonition to the Ilraelites, rhat they might un» derſtand and conlider that Gods preſence and Favour was not ab- ſolute!y, necelfarily, and evecrlaſtingly fixed to them, as they were very apt to believe, but was ſuſpended upon the condition ot their continued obedience, which if they violated, they thould be re- jected, and the Gentiles performing it, ſhould be received ro his mercy. And this Claule may. b: connected either, 1. with irh& former words, as the condition ef rheir intereſt in God as their
God, as was now faid. Or 2. witch the following Vecle, if you | . beauty are in his ſan&nary b.
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| | 8 Hardennot your hearts n, * as # the F provocation Nu 14-22, e, ond as in the day of temptation p in the wilderneſs : . 13. | + Du 6. ? Heb.co the truth of the Goſpel. o As you did in that bold and \ conteſt with God in the Wilderneis, Or, As in Mer.bah,which was | lez, give unto the LOR D & glory and ftrengt was called Maſſah, as is evident from Exid. 17. 7. and Deur. 33» 8, Pies 8 Qory 5 h. . pIn the day in which you tempted 12e. Or, as in the day of Maſſah, | ' it may be intimated. that this great Bleſsing of Sa . ſhould not be imparted to whole Nations, but. only to ſome per- i-ſons raken 2ut of every pe'ple and Nation, ag it is expreſſed, Rewvel. ' 5.9, Or 2. more largely for nations, as it is taken Gen. 12. 3. Fer-
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the proper name of the place where that happened and which alſo