A Commentary on the Psalms of David [Tr. Based on That of A. Golding].

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1840. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... become rotten; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 2 The Lord.] It is of more force that God is brought in speaking, than if David had given sentence in his own person. For seeing that God is set in his throne as an inquisitor, we are portentously stupified, if his majesty strike us not with fear. For the habit of sinning makes men to harden in their sins, and to discern nothing, as in a dense mist. David, therefore, to teach them that such flatteries shall profit nothing, affirms, that when wickedness reigns unpunished in the world, then God vieweth and examineth them from heaven, so that it cannot escape him what is doing among men. Now although God have no need to make any inquisition, yet it is not in vain that he taketh upon himself the resemblance of an earthly judge, that, according to our small capacity, we may take hold of his secret providence, which cannot be conceived at once by our understanding. And would to God that this manner of speaking could bring us so far, that we might learn to cite ourselves before God's judgment-seat, and that, while the world is forming schemes of pleasure, and the reprobate are burying their sins by their doltishness, or hypocrisy, or shamelessness, and are blinded in their own drunken wilfulness, this sentence, that God nevertheless looketh down from heaven, might shake off our drowsiness. If there be any that understandeth. Forasmuch as a course of living well and righteously depends upon being governed by the light of understanding, David did well in the beginning of the Psalm to say, that folly is the root of all wickedness. And in this place he makes a sound mind to be the groundwork of uprightness and virtuous living. But because the greater part pervert their wit to knavery, soon after, David] de...