ſtand before his cold r ? | | 9 Either, 1: pieces of icey which God may be ſaid to caft forth or zo caſt down, becauſe he ſenderh it, and oft-times ſuddenly : or 2. great hail-ſtones, which are of an icy nature aud ſubſtance, and which are very properly caft forth or caft dows out of the clouds, and that like morſels or fragments, the particles being congealed in them. » The cold which he ſometimes ſends intothe air is ſo ſharp, that it would be intolerable, if men did not defend themſelves from it by houſes, cloaths, fire, &c. he 18 He ſendeth out his word, and melteth them * he
cauſeth his + winds s to blow, and the waters flow t.
s The Southern or ſome other warm wind ſent with commiſſion to diflolve the ice: t The rivers return to their courſe which be- fore were bound up by, or turned into, ice. ;
19 He ſheweth t his word «unto Jacob ; his ſtatutes ! and his judgments unto Iſrael.
# Me fully declared his mind and will by revelation and in his word, x To the children or 7aceb or 1j/4el, and to them alone, as it follows.
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20 * He hath not dealc fo with any nation y: and as 4c. pyy; |
for his judgments, they have not known them, Praiſe ;; 1, 2, ye the LORD. | | | y He left all others to their own native darkneſs and blindneſs, and to thoſe dim diſcoveries of God and of themſelves which they had from the light of Nature. USP : P S A L. CXLVIIL. The ARGUMENT. | He nature of this Pſalm is for ſ1bſtance the ſame with the for- mer eontaining an invitation to all the creatures to praiſe God for his manifold bleſſings. The Pſalmiſt exhorted all celeftial and terreſtrial creatures, eſpecially man, 10 praiſe God for his Favour and Mercy to his Church
I I4. | I) Raiſe ye the LORD. Praife ye the LORD from the heavens az praiſe him in the heights b. ed: 4 All the hoſt of Heaven) which he particularly exprefſeth in 7: the following verſes. 6In thoſe high and heavenly places. 2 * Praiſe ye him all his Angelsc: praiſe ye himall his * P\: 103, hoſts d. | 20, 21: c He inviteth the Angels here, and the ſenſleſs creatures after * ward, to praiſe God, not as if the former needed, or the latter were Capable of his exhortition, bur onely by a Poctical rapture, the defign whereof is, that men by this means mighr be more pro« voked to this duty. d The Angels, called hoſts, here and 1 Kings 22. 39. for their vaſt numbers, exquiſite order, and perfect ſub. Jection to their General, the Lord of hoſts? : , 3 Praiſe ye him ſun and moon e: praife himall ye
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e You which are adored by the blind Heathens for gods, you are but his creatures, and therefore were obliged, if you were cap= able to worſhip and praiſe him for your glorious light and powers ful influences. | |
4 Praiſe himye heavens of heavens f, and ye waters that be above the heavens g. |
f Ye higheſt and moſt gracious Heavens, the place of GODS Throne and glorious preſence, as this phraſe is uſed, Deut: 10. 14. 1 Kings 8. 27. Neh. 9.6. Pſal: 115. x6. Or ye itarry heavens, whicly alſo may well be ſo called, becauſe they are above the air,” which is oft called Heaven in Scripture, g Ye clouds which are abovye 2 part of the Heavens. Of which ſee on Gen: 1. 7. :
5 Let them praiſe the Name of the LORD : for commanded, and they were created þ. h They owe their beeing wholly ro Gods good wilt, Pſ.23.9. 6 * He hath alſo eſtabliſhed them for ever and ever 3: *P:39.37 he hath made a decree & which ſhallnot pals 7/.
i Either abſolutely as to the ſubſtance of them, or at leaſt to the Jer 31.35 end of the world. He hath made then: conſtant and incorruprible EP” .
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not changeable and periſhing, as the thingsof the lower world are. & Either concerning their ſeveral courſes and influences: orrather or their continuance for ever; which belt agrees with the foregoing
7 Praiſe the LOKD from the earth, ye dragons »s and all deeps.
m Either, 1. dragons and ſerpents, which abide in the deep ca« IS, which dwell in the depths of the Sea, which are oft called by this name, as Jeb 7. 12, Ezek. 29. 3. and elfewhere. as the word here rendred dep; 15 moſt commonly uſed concerning the Sea, $ Fire » and hail, ſnow and vapour e, ſtormy wind fulfilling his word p. | | - » Lightnings and other fire-works .of the air. o Or, fumes bor exhaltations,asthe word proper)y ſignifies,as cold exhaltations zre comprehended under the title of ſnow. And both of them ariſmg from the earth, are here fitly mentioned as belonging to it. p Exee cuting his commands either for the comtort and refreſhment, or for the peniſhment, of the inhabitants of rhe erath, 9 Mountains and all hills, fruicful Treez and all ce.
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for your fruit. : to Beaſts and all cattel, creeping thing,
fowl. 11 Kings of the earth 7, and all people: princes,and
all judges of the earth.
7» Who, though you are called gods, and adored like Gods by your ſubjects, yet are but men, and the creatures and ſubjects of the Soveraign Lord, to whom you owe both your beeing, and all your power and dignity. ;
12 Both young men and maidens, old men and
children. 12 Let them praiſe the- name ofthe LORD : for
* his Name alone is | excellent ; his glory is above the
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s Not ſo much in place as in excellency, above all the glories which are in carth and in Heaven. :
14 He alſo exhalteth the Horn of his People, r, the
ſe # of his ſaints, even of the children of Iſrael, a people near unto bim x, Praiſe ye che LORD.