given by other men ) when the Pſalmift fairh that God make:h or
uſeth the winds as his Angels, &c. he plainly ſignifies that the An- gels a e Gods miniſters or Servants, no leſs than the winds. And that is ſufficient to juſtifie the Apoſtles Argument, and to prove the preeminency of Chriſt above the Angels; which 1s the Apoſtles deſign in that place. #Hb. be 5 | * Who laid the foundations of the earth 7, har it tb and ſhould not be removed m for ever ». u the I He ha:h founded or eſtabliſh-d the Earth upon its own baſis or founda- with up tions, i. e. upon it {elf or irs own weight, whereby it itands as faſt br baſes and unmoveable, 2s if it were built upon the ſtrongeſt founuations *Job26.7. imaginable. Which 1s a ſtupendious work of divine Power and wif. & 38. 4 dom. m Out of its proper place, which is the loweſt parr of the Pl, 24. 2 world. n As long as the World continues. & 136.6: 6 Thou coveredt it with the deep o as with a gar- ment: the waters ſtood above the mountains p. o Either, 1 In the general D-luge» Or rather,
have thought, faid Deluge 3 for it is :pparent they were before it, Gen. 7. 19. and
moſt probably were in the firſt Creation, becauſe this variety of
Mountains and Valleys is.both ornamental and uſeful to the world. 7 * At thy rebukeq; they fled rs atthe voice of thy thunder [they haſted away.
q Upon thy ſevere Command, Gen: 1: 9. which he calls a rebuke to :mply that there was ſomething in that ſtate of things which
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might ſe-m t» need reproof aad corretti"n, even that confuſion of
Earth and water together, which therefore God amended in his ſec-nd vays work, r They immediately went to the place which
God had allotted to them. / Of thy Soveraign Command, which as they could nor but hear, ſo they durit nor diſobey. He aſcribes
2. In the firſt Creation, as we read Gen. I. 2, 9. of which the Pfalmilt is here ſpeaking. p The mountains were not made by the Deluge,as ſome who for that reaſ[ 1 underſtand this Verſe of the
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mon abode z-or in the ground nigh unto them; or in the Trees, which commonly grow by the Binks of Rivers. 4 Which being delighted and refreſhed by the Waters ſend forth their pleatant ores. 13 * He watereth the hills 4 from his chambers e ; * che earth is ſatisfied f with the fruit of thy works g-
d Which moſt need moiſture and have leaſt of it in them. e
ful. g With the effe&s of thoſe ſweet ſhawers, which he calls Gods works, becauſe he alone can and doth give them, as is noted Jer. 10. r3. and 14+ 22,
. 14 * He cauſecth the graſs to grow for the catte!, and Herb tor the Service of man 4 : thathe may bring forth food out of the earth 7z.
Prepared or diſpoſed for the production of neceſlary proviſions for Beaits and for men, that ſo he (to wit, God ) may bring forth food
would never yield.
i5 And * wine & that maketh glad the heart of man an4 | oy] to make his face to ſhinc 7, and bread mwhich ſtrengthneth mans heart ».
7 He alludes to the cuſtom of thoſe times and places which was u- pon ſo'emn and feſtival occaſions to anoint their Faces with Oyl. See P/al, 23. 5. Bur theſe words with the former are by divers Learned Interpreters rendred otherwiſe, wiich ſeems more agree- able to the order and contexture of Hebrew Text, And ( he giveth wine t112t maketh glad the heart of man, to mak? ( or, that he may make, 1: e; that thereby he may alſo make ) his face to ſhrze more than oyl, 1: E: More than it thineth when it is anointed with Oyl: Or, as with oyl So he ſpeaks only of the wine which he commends from two qualities, that it makes the Heart chea-ful, and the Counte- nance pleaſant. 2 7; e: Bread Corn, by a Metonymy mn Which hath a ſingular faculty to preſerve or renew our ſtiength and vig- our : whence it is called the ſtaff of Life. _
16 The trees ofthe LORD o are Þ full of ſap p:
cedars of Lebanon q * which he hath planted.
pounds this ; which came up and grew, and thrive not by Mans Art and Induſtry, but meerly by the care of Gods Provideace. þ Heb, Are or ſhall be ſat:5fied, to wit with the Rain, of whovic good effeUs he is yet {peaking. 9 Yea even the talleſt and Jargeſt Ce- dars, ſuch as theſe were, are ſupported and nouriſhed by ir. | 17 Where the birds make their neſts ; as for the Stork
r, the fir-trees [are ber houſe. I
r Which makes their Neſts not only in the tops of Houſes, bur alſo in the Field and in high Trees, as Yarro and others have noted: /{ Whichallo are Trees of great height and bigneſs 3 and which being here ſaid ro afford the Stoiks 3X Houfe, are thereby {:ppoſcd to be preſerved and nourtſhed by the Rain water.
13 The High Hills are a retuge for wild goats, and the rocks for the conies #.
t So he paſſeth from the Rain to other works of Gods Provi-
Senſe and Keaton to inanimate Creatures by a Figure called Proſo. dence, as that God hath made {vitcable and ſufficient proviiion for
popes | |Or, the & || They go up by the mountains ; they go down by mui? the yalleys t unto the place which thou haſt founded for
deend, the , © veleys ate them #«.
ſeend, t In that firſt diviſion of the Waters from the Earth, ſome part of them by Gods Command, contrary to their own Nature, went upwards, and became Springs in the M -untains, and the greateſt part went downwards to the Chanels made for them. Others, both antient and Jater Interpreters, read the words thus, The Mountains aicend, the Valleys diſcena, When the Waters were ſeparated, part of the Earth went upwaid and made the Mountains,and part went downward and wade the Valleys or low Grounds. But our Tran- ſlation ſeems the beſt, as being mo#t aggreable to the Context, be- caule he ſpeaks of the Waters both in the foregoing and following Verſes. » Unto their proper Chanels and Recepracles which God provided for them.
*Pl33.7. 9 * Thou haſt ſeta bound x, *chat they may not paſs a 9, over: that they turn not again to cover the earth y.