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before two Kings.
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which we have now inhand, David doth two things ( which the Hetrewes, efpecially doclegant-
ly exprefle : ) He mixes Tebillaand Tephilla: (chat 1s) petitions with Thank fyivings + Prayers with
a Song, Astoon as He hadfung His hymn, infandly, wich one and the fame breath, He {aid His
prayers, For in the foregoing verfe, He brought forth His fong, He tuned his’ Strings, takes his
Lute, fings thus (as yehave heard ) /eis He whogives falvationto Kings : itis hz whe hath de-
livcred David bis fervant from the perilous fword, And behold immediately ( namely in the fol-
Jowing verfe ) He layes his Lute out of his hand; He fallsdown on his knees, betakes himfelf to
_ his prayers: and there dictaccs a prayer for himfelf and forus, in chele words: Save Afe, and de-
liver Me, fromthe hand of firange children: whofe moath talketh of vanity, and their right hand
tsaright hand of iniquity... This was the beft way for himfelf, and for his people, whil{t he mixed
thefe: and ler usimitate his example. And firlt, as che ground of our duty requires, letus praife
_ this preferver of Kings, the Deliverer of bis fervant, our King, Let us praife Him with a new fonz,
infinging, with {ringed inftruments, with Pires, with wind inttruments ; withthe beft and choifeft,
that our breath, voyce, mind, hand, eicher hath, or can get. Foreven the beft we have is due to
this favour 5 isdue toG OD, for this, Yea, all we have,even the belt things are leffe than this fa-
vour, le(fe than He deferves, for this. Buc yet, lec us affay the be(t we can , to fing fomething. And
herein let all chat 1s within us, all oar bones, confefle unto thee, O Lord, that {alvation is thine, that
thou giveft it, that thou giveft it unto Kings, that thouhaft given it to onr King : andin Him, tous
all, even, to Three kingdomes, in one ; to one in Three. eMnd now, what can we fay more unto
thee 2 For thou'Lord knowef? thy fervasts, though we expreffe our minds unworthily ; yet inwardly
in our'minds, and inmoft thoughts, we are eternally bound unto thee, for this, she Kings
falvation, : . . 7
But yet, becaufe co have once delivered him, itis not enough, nor twice, or thrice, nor feven
times (foras long ashe lives, fo longis there this danger, from thole perillous ones) becaufe all
firange children are notin a ftrange Land, Some there are inours, even withus : In regard all the
fonnes of Belial are not yet dead, at leaft cheir father Belial is not dead: Bur yer is alive, yec he
devifes his mifchievous plots, no Istle now, than in Davids time :‘No leffe, than any time fince
David, till this day : No lefle? Yea certainly, and more, becanfe he hath but a {hort time : Let us
" alfo after che manner of our Pfalm, leaft we {tay roo long in the fong, hang up our Lutes a while,
and lay them afide fora feafon; Yea fet us alfo kneel down, and adjoyn our prayes; Yea lec usalfo
after hisexample make publike prayers. Noother, chan he Himfelf doth make, here, and in other
“Pfalmes.. Here: Save kim: Yea deliver him from ftrange childrens from their mouth, right hand,
their perilloxs fword, And out of other Plalmes: * Save now I befeech thee,O Lord, O Lord, I befeech
theefend now profperity. O God, fend forth thy Strength ; flablifh this good work, that thon haft wrought
forus. * Shew thy marvellous loving Rindncfle 2 J Shew great deliverance to thy King: * Precipe
omnimodam falutem F AC OBO. Icis Thou, who hatt given qlvation: Icis Thou, who halt de-
livered: Bethox alwayes the fame thar Thou art. Alwayes deliyer, alwayes fave Him, alwayes con-
tinue thefe bleffings unto us. : : L
But for chofe that remain (for I much fear, that yetfome remain ) fPrange childree, what elfe
pray we, than as Cufhy did, 2 Sam.18,32+ For David alfo, when he, was then in Like fore delivered
from the fword of a Soaneyboth his own, anda ffrange one, Abfalom 5 * The enemies of my Lord
the King and allthat rife again[t him, to do him hurt, let them be as thofe brothers, brothers in iniquity,
mi{chievous brothers. * So let all thine enemies perifh ( the enensies of thine anointed) O Lord, But
thofe that love Thee, that love Him: be as the Sun whenhe gocth forth in his might, That thereby as
we, fo may our feedenjoy, who under the profperous fuccetfe of his Reigne, have poffeffed, thofe
eizsht earthly Beaticvdes (in this Pfalm ) the eight Felicities of this life; Yea that ninth alfo
(worth all the reft.) of pare Religions I pray GOD we may long, and many yeares enjoy the
fame, under Him, in fafety, in bealth, in long life ; ( which this four yeares we have done ) Yearly
paying our vowes, on this day, for this dayes fake , forthe falvation given on this day: Alwayesin-
ter-lacing this verfe 5 in che beginning, in the midft, intheend : Ir ss he who gives falvation unto
Kinos: It is he whe hath delivered J AMES his fervaat, from the perillows (word, To him, be
honour, praife, glory, thankfgiving, for ever and ever, efim:n,
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FINTIS.
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Pfalm 103.1}
& 35, Io, ,
2 Sam.7, 298
Rev. 12, 122
Plalm 118.292
Pol 68,284,
Pfalma7. 73
Pfalm 18.913
Pfalm 44. 5.
Pfalm ro2.278
2 Sam,18.323
Judges 5.330
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