3. Every man truly born in Zion shall be admitted on the register.
Verse 6.
1. The time referred to. "When he writeth up", & c.; when all the true Israel is saved.
2. The account to be taken: "When he writeth up", & c., i.e. revises and reenters the names in the Lamb's Book of Life. Compares the called with the chosen.
3. The test to be applied.
(a) Their being in Zion, or having the means of grace.
(b) Their being born there.
4. The completion of their number: "The Lord shall count." An exact number of stones in a perfect building and of members in a perfect body. So in Christ's Church. All make one bride.
5. The notice taken of each one: "This man was born there." Men fell as a whole; they are saved individually. —G.R.
Verse 7.
1. In God our joy.
2. From God our supplies.
3. To God our praise.
Verse 7. ( last clause ).—All the springs within me, all the springs which flow for me, are in my God. There are "upper and nether springs", springs "shut up", "valley" springs (Ps 104:10), rock springs, & c.; but all these flow from the Lord.
WORKS UPON THE EIGHTY-SEVENTH PSALM
In "Sermons preached before the University of Oxford ...by John Eveleigh, D.D., 1815, "is "Sermon, twelve, in which is proposed a New Interpretation of the Eighty-Seventh Psalm."
The Solace of Sion, and Joy of Jerusalem. Or consolation of God's Church in the latter age, redeemed by the preaching of the Gospel universally. Being a godly and learned exposition of the Eighty-Seventh Psalme of the Princelye Prophet David: Written in Letine by the reverend Doctor Urbanus Regius, Pastor of Christes Church at Zelle, in Saxonie 1536. Translated into English by R. Robinson, Citizen of London, 1587.