Notes on the Book of Psalms, Psalm 110
The cx. PSALM.
David that Kingly Prophet, and sweet singer, in this Psalm shews the glorious exaltation of Christ in our nature at Gods right hand, there to rule as sole sovereign, whence it shall come to pass, that by his divine spiritual omnipotencie, his Gospel shall be effectual to the creating this King, a Kingdom of loving loyal subjects maugre all his and their enemies and opposers; speciallie upon his first inthronization and royal nuptials; his Church shall get ground spight of the divel, and all those earthly Potentates he s…ts on work to hinder it. Such power hath he by virtue of his Kingly office to protect his people against men and divels, and of such …fficacie is his Priesthood with God, able to save his Church to the uttermost, ever living to make propitiatorie intercession for them in the heavens. And he concludes with rendering the reason of all this his high esteem, and powerfull prevailancie with God, and power over angels and men, even because for the effecting of this his Mediatourship and mans redemption, he shall drink of a full cup, the bitter waters of affliction shall be poured out upon him, and wrung out to him with an Almightie hand.
Psalm cx. A Psalm of David.A Psalm which David made in the spirit of Prophecie.
1THe Lord said unto my Lord, fit thou on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy foot-stool.1 GOd the Father in his eternal councel and covenant, said to his son, who is God and man, my Lord and Saviour, (whose resurrection, ascention, and sitting at Gods right hand in dominion and power, I shadow out in mine advancement from my low and troublelous state, to the throne and scepter of Israel) for that thou who art my fellow in the God-head, hast undertaken to do my whole will in the Redemption of man, and condescended to take his nature the better to effect it, and therein hath effectually wrought it, by dying for sin, but being without sin, hath conquered death which could not hold thee, and art risen and ascended into heaven. I give thee therefore, there all power and authority in that very nature, to rule and exercise sovereign and supream Jurisdiction over the Church, which thou hast purchased by thy bloud, together with the empire, and absolute dominion of all things else, for the Churches sake, whose King and sole Mediatour thou art; and this thy government, I give thee to execute in a throne of majestie, equal with my self in the highest heavens, thence in thy humane nature with divine power to dispense and transact all things belonging to this thy Kingdom, whilest there is any Church, or that I have any people on earth to be governed, officiated for by thee, even until I who am as solicitous of thine honour as thou art of mine, by my power dispenced by thy self, shall have subdued unto that thy humane nature (once so contemptible) all thine enemies whether divels, men, or things, Jews or Gentiles, that shall oppose or not submit to thy regiment; yea, death it self, or whatsoever shall impede the compleating of that glorious Kingdom of thy Mediatourship, in, for, and over the Church, bone of thy bone, and flesh of thy flesh, until thou hast fulfilled her number, and safely brought the last man and member of that thy mystical bodie to heaven, there in body and soul to be glorified with thee; till then I say, shall this royal office of thine continue, whereof having then given me a just account according to thy undertaking, and my covenant thou shalt deliver up the regal state and Kingdom of that thy Mediatour-ship in the humane nature, into my hands as God alone, for ever after of my self in the divine nature, onelyonly to govern that glorified Church, which by a mightie, and out-stretched arm thou hast bought, and brought thither, there to remain in perfect happiness with thee, and under me for ever.
2The Lord …shall send the rod of thy strength out of Sion: rule thou in the middest of thine enemies.2 The Lord Almighty, who is able to bring to pass great things by weak means, shall raise up glorious lights in Jerusalem and Jurie, where thou first manifests thy self, as Aopstles, Evangelist, &c. that shall give light to them that sit in darkness, the glad tidings of the Gospel, which is the mightie power of God to salvation, that rod of Moses to save Israel, shall by these his emissareis be held forth and preached to the Gentiles, people of all nations and languages, whereby they that now are forreigners shall be brought within the pale, and shall take laws from thee, and be subjected to thee, O blessed Saviour, that art advanced in the humane nature (wherein thou sufferedst) in such power and glorie at the right hand of the most high God, there by his appointment to sway the Scepter of thy Mediatorian Kingdom, by the power whereof, the preaching of the Gospel, through the eternal spirit accompanying it, shall maugre all opposition of Gentilism, who now are thy professed enemies, and then shall strongly oppose thy Kingdom, prevail to set up thy throne in the hearts of thy chosen all the world over, who shall every where make glorious profession of thy name, and own thee for their Lord and King, spite of all earthly opposing powers, and contemners of a crucified Saviour, who shall be no more able to hinder thy Church from flourishing, than thee from rising out of the grave.
3 Those that are given to thee of God the Father,3Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. and redeemed by thee out of the world, when thou shalt have offered thy self a propitiatorie, and taken possession of thy Kingdom at his right hand; through thy mission of the spirit thence, and his mighty working by the word upon the hearts of those thy people, they shall thick and three-fold be converted, neither the pravitie of their natures, nor their long accustomed Idolatries shall obstruct their ready and chearfull compliance with the Gospel, but shall willingly imbrace the tender of grace, and come under thy governance in the Church; which shall then so multiply as to assemble and conveen in all places for the exercise of Christian religion, as thy people the Jews do at the beautifull and holy Temple, (that type of Christ) in which Christian Synagogues, especially in the first breaking forth of the light of the Gospel, as the morning sun upon the face of the earth, shall be born unto thee out of the then pregnant productive womb thereof, begotten by the holy Ghost in those thy first loves and nuptial imbraces of the Church, thy Spouse, immediately upon thine ascention and investiture into glory, an off-spring spread far and wide upon the whole earth, as innumerable as the dew drops which insensibly fall from the heavens, as the spirit shall then invisibly upon their hearts at the preaching of the word.
4The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent: thou art a Priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedeck.4 For the great God of heaven by his everlasting decree, and immutable oath, revealed for the consolation of his people, and corroboration of their faith, hath, never to revoke it, conferred upon thee their Mediatour and Saviour, the honour and office of that everlasting Priest-hood (not temporary, as the Levitical, but) without change or succession, pourtraied in Melchisedeck. Yea, to be a King and Priest in one person as he was, and none else; to typifie that glorious priviledge to belong to thee and none other; who therefore at thy Fathers right hand for thy Church and people, transacts a royal Priesthood of righteousnes and peace according to the office, person, and name of Melchisedeck, King of Salem.
5The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through Kings in the day of his wrath.5 The Lord, the God and Father, who onelyonly hath the preheminencie of thee, as thou hast under him of of all things else, shall imploy his power for the advancement of thine honour, and revenge of thy dishonour, wrathfully destroying Kings, Kingdoms that shall oppose themselves, and hinder the coming of thy Kingdom in thy Churches growth and felicity, in the time when he thinks fit to judge them for it.
6He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies: he shall wound the heads over many countries.6 Thou who art paramount, the onelyonly He, or the promised Messiah, for the Churhes comfort shalt rule the world, the Gentiles shall be under his Judicature, he will preserve his people that are converted to him, and profess his name every where among the heathen, taking vengeance on their enemies, whom he shall remarkably destroy, as he was wont to do the enemies of Israel. The earthly Potentates of the world, shall find him to be above them; if they bruise his heel, afflict his people, (as they will in all places) he will bruise their heads, their greatness shall not priviledge them at all.
7 If you will know the reason of this high preferment of Christ in our nature at Gods right hand,7He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head. and of the power and head-ship he hath there, it is because he shall drink deep of the wrath of the Almighty, streamed down upon him in the way thereunto, and for the obtaining thereof, by suffering a cursed death upon the Cross, with bodily torments, and unutterable soul-agonies, the unavoidable means of effecting his Mediatour-ship, and mans redemption; therefore shall he upon that full and faithfull discharge of his office here upon earth, ascend unto, and sit for ever at the right hand of his Father which is in heaven, to act there the glorified part thereof, in full power…, and absolute dominion over all there and here, Angels and men, Jews and Gentiles, friends and foes.