Works, Part 4 · Biblical exegesis 1 · Addendum for portion
This verse …. should hauehave come in after the verse 86. in the page 442.
[Vers. 87.
They had almost consumed me vponupon earth, yet did I not forsake th… statutes.
HEre is another argumet o… Dauids faith, & constâcie, nothing could make him forsake Gods word. He was like a bladder bottle in the smoake, verse 83. Pits were digged for him in which he was neere fallen, hee was in a manner consumed vponupon and from the earth, yet nothing can make him to forgoe his holde, abandon his generall, runne from his colours, and forsake that profession which he had made of Pietie. Thus the malice of the wicked will neuer hauehave an end, the state of Gods children is oftentimes desperate, and so long as the vngodly remaine vponupon earth, the godly must thinke by them here to be troubled. In the world saith Christ yee should hauehave trouble, but in me peace, be of good comfort, I hauehave ouercome the world. Iohn: 16.
There: 1. Saul, his courtiers, his generation, and alliance, yea and many of Iudah by his meanes: they, thine enemies, the Churches enemies, and the enemies to the commonwealth: they aduersaries to thy prouidence in annoynting me King, opposites to thy mercies in my manifold deliuerance, euen they.
Had almost) not altogether, for thou wast on my side, thou diddest confound their consultations, disanull their des…gnes, ouerthrowe their enterprises. Thus God bringeth to the graue and reuiueth againe, and though his seruants be readie to perish, yet will he send a gracious deliuerance.
Consumed mee.) Nothing but desolation will serue the wicked. Searing, wound. … hurting will not se…ue. But the memoriall of the iust must bee rooted out.
VponUpon earth.) Perhaps he meanes his exile in the land of Iudah: yea, but God hath prouided heauen for his, there shall we be free from all confusion, though wee loose earth, yet shall we neuer loose heauen, we may loose an earthly Ierusalem, we shal not our heauenly.
I did not forsake.) Here is the true godly man indeed, hee will forsake house, and landes, father and mother, wife and children, friendes and fauours, before he wil forsake his God▪ and that profession hee had made of Pietie and godlinesse, whereunto hee was directed … the word.
Errata.
PAge 395. l. 1. for he may fayle VI, read we may say, p: 412. l. 34. his truth, this truth▪ p: 413. l. 2…. where, when. p: 414. l. 16. take for keepe, and l. 26. if hee, for if wee, 37. reade and righteousnes pa: 415. l. 43. with for without p: 416. l. 5. not the life, …ot the least in the life of man. p: 442. the 87. verse is not expounded, but it is the same with many others in this Psal: expos. vers. 9…. 95. 445. l. 1. for Dauids. reade Adams, l. 13. for i…y, reade say▪ p: 447. for I will neuer, reade thou hast quickned. l. 45. for …ltation▪ …ultation. p: 451. l. 45. for she must, …e must. 452. set …as before …ta.