” Pi-1, 16.8. 7 forcjaw the Lord always before my face. In the Pſalm the Apoſtle following the reading of the cventy, then in 1.ſec and known; and tothe fame ſenſe; for by Faith | alted and t having received of the Father the promiſe of ti: It we both fee Ged, and place our confidence in him. David, and eſpecially our Saviour. doing and enduring allthings as in the ſight of
i'1s,, 7 Lave fet rhs Lord :
God, whom he knew to;be.both careful of him, and ready to help him. Thus io all tzoubles, there is no ſich approved comfort, as the je. ing or acknowledging the Will cf God concerning them, his Power to preferve us under them, and his promiſes to deliver us trom them. Ch;;? and all that are Chrifs, do corflit under the eye, and 1n the ſighr of God; as Souldiers whilſt rheir Geners! looks on. » Tae place of tiz Advocate., for one that is accuſed or en- dangered.
26 Thcrefureo did my heart rejoycep, and my tongue 9 wes glad , moreover allo, my fleth » thall reſts in hope 2.
0 Becauſe of Gods nearneſs to, cr preſence with him. p Chriſts |
and his peoples joy is ſolid and true, real and inward, and may bear thereſt ; Res ſewera eff verum gaudium, g In the 16. Pſalm, wer. g. tis Y glory, as the tongue is trequently called ;z communicating our thovghts or apprehenfions by ſyeech, being the excellency of a rea- lonable Creatire, » Or »y body + s Orbe in the grave, as in a Tabernacle, (ordinarily a moveable, always no durable abiding|place) * That is of the ReſurreRion, and going out of that Tabernacle of the prave.
27 Becalite thou wilt not leave my » ſoul in hell x, nei- ther wilt thou ſufter thine holy One to ſee corruption.
# Phat '$ 2e ; the Soul is put 'o* the perlon, as Rom 13. 1. Lit ever; (uu be /rbjec?'; and ſoctimnes for a dead Body, as Levir. 19.
23 Him *, being delivered by the determinate counſel i Chap.3.30- and foreknowledpge of God f, t ye have taken, and by wick-
+146 pl h Chriſt roſe by hizown Power a Gos'; it being perhaps too ſtrong 23: *© 3+ met to be given at fiift ro ſuch who were under fo great prejudices againſt our Saviour : but by conſequence in,the following diſcourſe, ; The ſame word 72FT, varioufly pointed,
1 The: rr, BH9ve, being under the power of death, the pains of death are ſaid TAY $ : _ to be Jocted at his ReturreAion, 1 Long, much {for ever; being 34D. I}, 20G. 7
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Soul, is fo uſed. »« The & ns, is pur either for the grave, or f, the place of the damned. Being theſe words are alledg*d as 2 Sg of Chriſts Reſurrection, and that our Saviours Soul was rs Paraciſe, where he promiſed to the penitent thief that he mn + be with him, it ſeems rather to be meant of the grave, ur; cording to this Prophecy, could not hold our blefſtd S2viours "Wii ſo Jong, as that it ſhould corrupt in it. If David by his $01 Oe did mean our Saviour, becauſe he was as it were the Sou! Kr Soul, and Life of his Life, it ſhews how he did, and how we —_ SanQlified , and ſear 4.
28 Thou haſt made known to me z the ways of life ; thou ſhalt make me full of joy with thy counc. nance 4.
z God is frequently faid to make theſe mercies known to us, wh;., he beſtows upon us: ( The ways of Life ; ) of atrue Lite ; whict . life indeed. David in theſe words celebrates Gods delivering of him from his grievous afflictions and exile : (in which he was looked v1, on by others, and by him!elf, as a dead man) yer was broughc 2am
. . . O to ſee the Temple, and enjoy the Ordinances of God : Wittiqur
and the Lords In hp . : : ; = . which, his life was no life unto him. So our Sayi . Mme js his Attribures, Goodnefs, Power, Wiſdom, Faithfulnefs, &c. j* , Our, after hj;
The name of che Lord uw a ſirong tower: the righteous
Deathand Paſſion, arofe, and Afcended into Heaven, and live,
ever-to make Interceſſion for us. a That is, with thy preſence or
manifeſtation of thy love and favour. s 29 Men and biethren 6, || let me freely ſpeak Unto 0
you of the * patriarch David c, that he is both ey *1K;
* {and buried d, and his ſepculchre is with us unto thi; Capi
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6 St. Peter beſpeiks this attention and favour ; intimating, ke x4; one of the ſame Nation with themſelves, than which nothing cools more recommend him. c David was had in great veneratin, ang his memory very preciousamong{t thispeople,as was Abrahan,”, 1[z,, and 7acob's; who were the chief of their Fathers : das in the ; xj,
4 Or Monument is with us; either not wholly ſpoiled by the Barbary enemies, who had deſtroyed Jeruſalem ; or rather repaired after the Captivity, to keep up the memory of fo great and gooda man, Py; by this ir appeared, that David did not ſpeak theſe things cop. cerning himſelf, who muſt needs have ſeen corruption ; (them(sys being witneſſes) for onthat account they reſpeQed his T omb, as be. ing the Repoſitory of his aſhes.
3o Therefore being a prophet *, and knowing that God *p, had ſworn with an oath e to him, that of the fruit of his :Ti loyns f, according to the fleſh g, he would raiſe up Chrij h
to (it on his throne z,
e Not barely had ſworn, which had been ſufficient ; but ſworn; an Oath ; to ſhew the excellency of the matter, and the neceſſity of our believing of it, asalſo the ſolemnity ofthe words, Þſal 132.1, FSuch as ſhould deſcend from him, as the Virgin Mary did, o& to his human Nature, which our Saviour did truly partake of being in the form of a ſervant. þ By the Power of the Holy Ghoſt in the womb of his Virgin-mother as to his Incarnation ; and by the (ins Power out of the grave, in his Reſurre&ion. i As Lukz i, 32, 33, Not asa Temporal King, for his Kingdom is not of thu world; but as David ruled overall the people of God, ſo does Chriſt and ſhall do for ever.
31 He ſeeing this before &, ſpake of the refurretticn of Chriſt /*, that his foul was not left in hel), neither did'ff
his fleſh ſee ccrruption.
k By a Prophetical eye ; unto which any thing that was revea''d was as certain and manifeſt. as ought could be tothe eye of the body, { By the fame Prophetical Spirit, and with the ſame certaintr. which he ſpake of the Incarnation, he ſpake alſo cf the ReſurreQion, Of the reſt lee wer. 27.
32 * m This Jeſus hath God raiſed up, | whereof weall'
are .witneflzs, j » Whom ye Crucitied, and we Preach ; [ whereof we are all wits aefſes] they had now received thz power ſpoken of, and promiled, | Chap. 1. and teſtifie what they had heard, and ſeen, 3nd felt, and | all agree in ; tho they could get nothing by ir, but hatred, and per: | ſecurion, nay, death.