whose sacred body thou wilt preserve from the least putrefaction in the earth.

XVII. 10. "They are inclosed in their own fat."]-They are fat and well liking; pampering themselves with all the contentments and pleasures that their heart can desire.

14. "From men (as in the margin) by thine hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasures.”]—Save thou me, O Lord, by thy powerful hand from the cruelty of men, even from worldly and bloodthirsty men; which have set up their rest here below, making no account of any other life after this, wherein to receive the retribution of good or evil; whom yet thou causest to abound with the choicest of all temporal and outward blessings for their further judgment

15. "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness."]-But as for me, I do no way envy this happiness of theirs, but rather am willingly content to suffer affliction here, since I am assured I shall one day behold thy face in perfect beauty: when I shall awake out of my long sleep in the grave, I shall be fully satisfied with thy glorious presence; and, in the mean time, I shall comfortably hope to see thy deliverance of me, in thy just vindication from mine enemies; and when thou raisest me out of my great adversity, I shall be abundantly refreshed with thy loving countenance towards me.

XVIII. 2. "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress."] See for this whole Psalm in 2 Sam. xxii.

XIX. 2. "Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge."]-As the continual succession of day and night doth notably set forth the wonderful power and providence of God, so there is no day or night wherein God doth not renew unto us some notable demonstration of his goodness, power, and wisdom in this great administration: every day affords us some new document thereof.

3. "There is no speech or language, where their name is not heard."]—Though these heavens and this day and night be mute, yet their speech and language is universally understood; so as the world, being distinguished by a variety of tongues, (the people whereof understand not each other, yet) all of them through the whole earth understand this voice, whereby the heavens, and day, and night, praise their Maker.

4. "Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their

words to the end of the world. In them hath he made a tabernacle for the sun."]-The line that God made for the passage of the sun, the first day of his motion is still and ever perpetuated round about the earth; so as God hath herein spoken, both to our ears by the voice, and to our eyes by the visible lines that he hath drawn of this great frame and continual and constant revolution of the heavens; in which he hath made a receptacle over and besides all other those glorious planets and stars, for the sun, as his most remarkable creature.

XX. 1. "The name of the God of Jacob defend thee."]-The almighty power of him that is named- the God of Jacob protect and defend thee.

2. "Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Sion."]-Send thee help from the holy heavens, and from his sanctuary, which is the type and figure thereof; and strengthen thee out of Sion, where he hath by his command appointed the holy ark of his covenant to be placed, and from thence gives answers and directions to all thine actions.

XXI. 9. "Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger."]-Those that are insolent and presumptuous enemies of the kingdom of thy Christ, thou shalt confound with thy most terrible judgments; thou shalt consume them and theirs in the extremity of thy wrathful vengeance.

12. "Therefore shalt thou make them turn their backs, (or, as in the margin, Thou shalt set them as a butt,) when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy string."]-Thou shalt make them as a butt, against which thou shalt level thine arrows of judgment thou shalt set them as noted objects of thy fearfullest

revenge.

XXII.12. "Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round."]-Mine enemies (and in type, thine, O Saviour) are more like unto beasts than men; like furious bulls, which have been pampered in the fat pastures of Bashan, they beset me, and are ready to gore me through.

16. "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet."]-Neither are they like to bulls for their strength, and lions for their fierceness, only; but they are also like unto dogs for clamour and cruel insultation; they both bite me with their teeth, and bay at me with their impure throats; thus do my implacable enemies persecute, me; yea, they have done that to me, in figure

and representation, which they shall do really to thee my Savour, they have pierced my hands and my feet.

20. "Deliver, &c. my darling from the power of the dog."]Deliver thou, O Lord, my dear life from the power and cruelty of these savage and merciless enemies.

29. "All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before thee and none can keep alive his own soul."]-Not only the poor and needy shall cheerfully eat of thy sacrifices, but even the wealthy and great also shall partake thereof, and worship thee; yea all those that humble themselves even to the dust of death for the profession of thy name, even those that have no care to keep themselves alive when their life may stand in the way of thy honour, they shall humbly adore thee.

31. "They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this."]—They shall make report of the righteous judgments of God unto that posterity which is yet unborn, and shall declare that it is he that hath done these great things.

XXIII. 4. "I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."]-As I am thy sheep, and thou my shepherd, O God, so shall I be ever confident in thy protection. What can the sheep fear while they see their shepherd ready to defend them? Thus shall I ever hold myself safe and sure under thy defence and thy gracious direction.

5. "Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over."] -Thou givest me abundance of all helps and comforts, not only for necessity, but even for pleasure also.

XXIV. 2. "He hath founded it upon the seas."]-He hath caused the waters to lie lower than the surface of the earth for the convenience of man's habitation; so hath he therefore lifted the earth over the sea, as if to our sense it were founded thereupon.

6. "This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob."]-This is the generation of those that do truly and sincerely serve God with an holy worship; the true sons of thee, O Jacob, who faithfully apply themselves to serve the God of Jacob.

7. "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in."]-It shall not be long that God shall dwell in these moving tabernacles: ere long he shall settle his abode in a fixed and lasting

habitation of his temple; O therefore, ye firm and ever-during doors of his temple, open yourselves cheerfully to receive that King of Glory which shall come to dwell in those sacred walls, and triumph in so blessed a guest; and ye, the faithful hearts of all believers, who are his living temple shadowed by that other, raise up your souls to entertain him unto your everlasting comfort.

XXV. 3. "Let them be ashamed which transgress without cause."]-Magnify thou thy justice, in pouring shame upon the face of those which rise up against me spitefully, without any just cause or occasion of provocation on my part.

14. "The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him."]The Lord bears a secret love and favour to those that fear him, however they may seem outwardly neglected; and, in a gracious familiarity, he imparts unto them the great mysteries of his will and their salvation.

XXVI. 1. "Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity."]-O God, do thou stand out for me, and give sentence with me; for thou knowest I have walked in uprightness and sincerity before thee: however I may have failed in weakness, yet my purposes and desires have been truly devoted to thee.

6. "I will wash my hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD."]-Lord, thou requirest holiness in them that come near thee, which thou hast signified by those many legal cleansings and lotions: I will be careful accordingly to purge my heart and hands from all impurity of my sins; and then will I approach to thine altar, and offer my sacrifices to thee.

9. "Gather not my soul with sinners."]-O do not take away my soul with sinners: thou seest I would not do as they do. 0 let me not speed as they do!

XXVII. 2. "And my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh."] -When my savage and cruel enemies came against me, like ravenous beasts, in an intention to worry and devour me.

XXVIII. 3. "Draw me not away with the wicked."]-Do not inwrap me in thy judgments together with the wicked; whom thou draggest to their execution suddenly.

XXIX. 2. "Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness."]— Worship ye the Lord in that beautiful and glorious sanctuary, where he exhibits his presence to his people.

3. "The voice of the LORD is upon (or, over) the waters, &c."] -The dreadful thunder wherein God speaks his power unto us is above, in those higher waters of the clouds there and thence

doth God speak unto us, more loud and terribly than all the roaring of these lower waters.

6. "He maketh them to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn."]-The voice of this thunder makes the very earth to shake, so, as the great mountains of Lebanon and Hermon are, as it were, moved out of their places with this horrible agitation.

7. "The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.”]—This voice of the thunder causeth the fearful flashes of the lightnings to break forth of the clouds, to the astonishing of the worlda.

9. "The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests."]-The terror of this voice causeth the hinds, which do not easily deliver themselves of their burden, to cast their calves, for fear; and so shaketh down, not the leaves and twigs only, but the very trees of the forest, that they are left bare, and open to all eyes.

XXX. 7. "Thou hast made my mountain to stand strong."]Thou hast settled my habitation so firm and safe in my mountain of Sion.

9. "Shall the dust praise thee?"] See Psalm vi. 5.

12. "To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee."]To the end that my tongue, which is the only instrument whereby we can express glory, may sing praise unto thee.

XXXI. 8. "Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room."]-Thou hast not given me over into the power of mine enemy; but hast enlarged me, and set me free from the fear or danger of his attempts.

12. "I am like a broken vessel."]-I am cast aside like a broken vessel, quite past all use or regard.

20. "Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues."]—As that which is hid in some secret and sure corner is safe from all eyes; so, through thy merciful care, are they laid up, under the covert of thy providence, from all their enemies, and from the issue of all those slanderous suggestions which they make against them.

XXXII. 3. "When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, &c."] -When I concealed and suppressed my guiltiness, and smothered my sin in my bosom; I was extremely afflicted therewith; my body decayed and languished.

a [It is hardly necessary to remark upon the imperfectness of physical knowledge when the author lived.]