8 Sacrifice and Oblations are no fit re turns for fo great Mercies; nor didft thou be moe than I am able to ex prefs. 8 [*Sacrifice, and meat-offering thou wouldeft not]: mine ears haft thou opened †. but exprefs any great defire of them.] I Sam. xv. 22. Pfal. li. 16. Hof. vi. 6. To hear, and readily obey thy Commands. [9 I come my felf, and 9 Burnt-offerings, and facrifice for fin haft thou not required: then faid I, Lo, [Icome.] offer my Soul and Body 10 In the *volume of the book it is written of me, that I should fulfil thy will, O my God: I am content to do it, yea, thy law is within my heart. Thould have a Copy of the Law by him, that he might study and practise it. Deut. xvii. 18, 19. And these words are properly apply'd to Christ, Heb. x. 5. forafmuch as all the Sacrifices under the Law, were but Types and Predictions of that one Sacrifice to be offered by him. Dr. Ham. understands the words in their firft fignification to relate to David; but by [the Volume of the Book,] when understood of Christ, he fays is meant that Bill, or Roll of Contract betwixt God the Father and Son, wherein is fuppofed to be written the Agreement concerning Man's Redemption: by which Christ undertakes perfectly to fulfil the Will of God, even to Death; and the Father, on the other fide, promifeth, that Christ fhould become the Author of Eternal Salvation to all them that believe. Mem [Sepher] fignifie both Book, Indenture or Writing: And the Jews rolled up all their Writings, fo that all of them might be called Volumes, that is, Rolls. II I have declared thy righteousness in the great congregation lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, and that thou knoweft. 12 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart: my talk hath been of thy truth, and of thy falvation. 13 I have not kept back thy loving mercy and truth: from the great congregation. 14 Withdraw not thou thy mercy from me, O Lord: let thy loving-kindness and truth alway preferve me. 15 For innumerable troubles are come about me, my fins have taken fuch hold upon me, that I am not able to look up: yea, they are moe in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me. 16 O Lord, let it be thy pleasure to deliver me: make hafte, O Lord, to help me. 17 Let them be afhamedand [confounded] together that feek after my foul to deftroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that with me evil. 18 Let them be defolate and rewarded with fhame: that fay unto me, Fie upon thee, fie upon thee. 19 Let all thofe that feek thee, be joyful and glad in thee: and let fuch as love thy falvation fay alway, The Lord be praised. 20 As for me, I am poor and needy but the Lord careth for me. 21 Thou art my helper and redeemer: make no long tarrying, O my God, 17 [Difappointed.] Evening A Pfalm of David, compofed on occ fion of his Sickness, and many Enemies. Beatus qui intelligit. Pfal. XLI. 6 He flatters and pretends to condole me, all the time he is with me he is inventing lies of me; and as foon as he is gone out of my Doors, he relates his own 7 [Contrive.] See the Vocabulary. Leffed is he that confidereth BL the poor and needy: the Lord fhall deliver him in the time of trouble. 2 The Lord preferve him, and keep him alive, that he may be bleffed upon earth: and deliver not thou him into the will of his enemies. 3 The Lord comfort him when he lieth fick upon his bed: make thou all his bed in his fick→ nefs. 4 I faid, Lord, be merciful unto me heal my foul, for I have finned against thee. 5 Mine enemies fpeak evil of me: When fhall he die and his name perifh? 6. And if he come to fee me, [he fpeaketh vanity and his heart conceiveth falfhood within himfeif, and when he cometh forth he telleth it.] Fictions for certain Truths.] 7 All mine enemies whisper together againft me: even againft me do they [imagine] this evil. 8 [Let the fentence of guiltinefs proceed against him ; and now that he lieth let him rise up no more.] 8 [Let him be found 9 Yea, 1 9 Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted: who did alfo eat of my bread, hath laid great wait for me. 10 But be thou merciful unto me, O Lord: raise thou me up again, and [1 fhall reward them.] ro [And I fhall re quite their Injuries with good turns, repay them quite otherwife than they have deferved. 1 Mem. David declares against all perfonal Revenge or Retaliati on of Injuries, Pfal. vii. 4, 5. II By this I know thou favoureft me: that mine enemy doth not triumph against me. 12 And when I am in my *health, thou upholdeft me: and fhalt fet me before thy face for 12 Health: This word in the Hebrew, as well as English, may fignify foundness of Mind or Body: But here it feems proper to fenfe. In the firft Verfes he fpeaks of God's of bodily Health. take it in the latter This Pfalm is generally believ'd to have been penned by David, when he was driven from the House of God by Abfalom. L Quemadmodum. Pfal. XLII. O Ike as the hart † defireth the water-brooks: fo longeth my foul after thee, O God. 2 My foul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God: When fhall I come to appear before the presence of God +? 3 [My tears have been my meat] day and night: while they daily fay unto me, Where is now thy God? G + When bunted or tired by the Dogs. † In bis Tabernacle. 3'[In flead of eating and drinking, I only cry and moan, 4 [Now * 4 To pour out the heart is to be greatly afflicted and disturbed. See Job xxx. 16. 1 Sam. 4 [Now when I think thereupon, I* pour out my heart by my felf: for I went with the i. Is. multitude, and brought them [Now when I reflect forth into the houfe of God;] on the impious taunts of thefe Men, and my own deplorable Condition, I am even overcome with Grief and Concern, especially when I confider how much better it was once with me: For I ufed formerly not only to go with the multitude to the House of God, but to be the Perfon who chiefly encouraged, and put forward the reft, and carried them along with me.] s [And they accompanied me in great num. bers, with Pomp and Solemnity, with Praises and Acclamations.] [For the Affiftance and Succefs which the Divine Prefence gives me.] See ver. 15. 8 My Mind, O God, is extremely dejected, and therefore I am forced to comfort my with the remembrance of thefe great things, felf 5 [In the voice of praise and thanksgiving; among fuch as keep holy-day.] 6 Why art thou fo full of heavinefs, O my foul: and why artthou fo difquieted within me? 7 Put thy truft in God: for I will yet give him thanks [for the help of his countenance.] T 8 [My God, my foul is vexed within me therefore will I remember thee concerning the land of *Jordan, and the little hill of *Hermon. which thou formerly didft for thy People at the River Fordan, Joh. iii. 15, 16. and at Mount Hermon, Deut. iii. 1, dc. (which, notwithstanding its height, feems a poor defpicable Hill, in comparison of Zion, where I ufe to worship God, and enjoy his fpecial Prefence) not doubting but thou wilt do as much in my behalf, if there be a juft occafion.] Probably he mentions * Fordan and * Hermon, because 'twas between those two places, chiefly, that he was forced to remain, during the time of his Abfence from Zion, 2 Sam. xvii. 15. 9 The Hebrew word here rendred * WaterPipe, fignifies any leffer Channel whereby Water is convey'd Here * 9 [One deep calleth another, because of the noife of the water-pipes: all thy waves and ftorms are gone over me.] it is moft proper to underftand by it, thofe fecret Pipes or Paffages under the Earth, whereby one Sea communicates with another, and whereby the circulation of Waters in the Body of this Globe is performed. Now the Pfalmift reprefents the feveral Seas, or great |