20 The man who doth in honour thine, A ftranger to my ways divine, But all the wife, in glory bright, Shall ever fhine with me; While fools, like beafts who perish quite, To be a stranger to the spirit and truth of this, and of the following Pfalm, is to be a ftranger to the whole of the New Teftament, and of the Old: for the Lord is that Spirit:' God manifest in the flesh is that Spirit; and they that worthip him muft worship him in that fpirit, and in that truth." See, John iv. 23, &e. with the parallel paffages. In a word, the meaning of this and the next Pfalm is, in a fhort fum, the meaning of the whole connected teftimony of God. See Pfalm ii.. with its parallels, and thofe on the margin. The Lord defcends in flaming fire, And all the faithlefs to devour: THE HE mighty God of gods, the Lord, To where he finks, and hides his head, 2 His glory, bursting through the cloud, 3 Our God, he comes, the Lord reveal'd; The folding flames before him roll; 5. Come, all my covenanted train, Who've wash'd your garments in my blood; To worship him their Judge and God. Thy fins, though always in my view. 9 I'll take no bullock from thy ftall, Nor lamb, nor he-goat from thy fold; 10 For beasts of forefts, great or small, Are all mine own, both young and old: The The cattle on a thousand bills, Who o'er the rocks and mountains fly; The blood of lambs till I be full? 14 Nay rather, if thou'lt hear thy God, By any deed or work of thine, But if thou wilt believe, and fee And glory in thy Shepherd good. Of thanksgiving and praise to me, 15 Perform 15 Perform thy vows to God most high, And thou my glory fhalt difplay. 16 But God unto the wicked faith, 17 What has my foul to do with thee? And spurn'ft my words as vile and vain : 18 When thou a thief perceived'ft, then Thou didst along with him confent; And, with the lewd adult'rous train, Thou to thy lewdness gaveft vent. 19 Thy mouth thou givest unto ill, Thy tongue deceit doth only frame, 20 Thou fitteft on the plot, to fpill Thy brother's character and fame: On thee to pour my wrath anon. While none deliv'rance can afford. 23 Who off'reth praife, me glorifies, For whofo ordereth aright His life, and converfation pure, And make him dwell with me fecure. PSAL M. LI. AFTER all that has already been advanced at great length in the general preface concerning the penmen of the Pfalms, the times and occafions whereon they were penned, &c. and concerning this Pfalm in particular, the reader may fum up the whole procefs of the argument for its interpretation, and application to the Lord Jefus Chrift, the Mediator and Surety of the better Teftament, as attempted in the following paraphrafe, in this manner: The Pfalm is evidently, every word of it, fpoken by one perfon: the words in ver. 16. Thou --- defireft not facrifice,' &c. clearly importing the fame meaning with ver. 8. of the last Pfalm, I ' will not reprove thee for thy facrifices,' &c. and with ver. 6. of Pfalm xl. Sacrifice and offerings →thou didft not defire,' &c. are exprefsly (as obferved in the illustration of Pfalm xl. which is the key to this one and all its parallels) applied by the Holy Ghost, the alone witnefs of those things, as fpoken by Chrift coming into the world, Heb. x. 6, &c.-If any man, now, pretend to give, another turn to those words, he fays thereby, that he is wifer than God-and he who provokes him to jealoufy, fhould confider, if he be stronger too!The fubfequent paraphrafe is made particularly large and full upon every fentence in the Pfalm, to thew, that there is no blafphemy (as many have moft blafphemously alledged there is) in this man ner |