1 Paralipomenon — Chapter 16

Not only King Dauid being a holie Prophet, but any other Superiour might blesse his subiects, for Superiours power is proued by Gods institution, rather then by factes, either of good men, which doe manie things by way of dispensation, or of euil vsurping whithout warrant, that to them perteyneth not. For it is cleere that God instituted supreme spirituall power in the high Priest, Deut. 17. And al Kings and temporal Princes are to receiue the law at the Priests hand, ibidem. v.

(c) His prefent helpe. . . . Remember ye his meruelous workes , which he hath done : his won- ders,and the iudgements of hhis mouth. Z 3 6, The made , and caufed to befung , whea brought the Arke of God from the houfe of Gods fpecial penefits to- wards the The 4. key. + For an ‘eXpo- the places inner margen, a tL ewes. 4 fition of this 4 Pfalme read quoted in the rane “190 THE BOOK

And they- paffed from nation into-nation, & from Kingdom to an other people, ;

our Lord glorie vnto his name, Take vp hofts , and enter-into-his courts :.9, adore ye-our Lord in his holie courr,.. Let al the earth be moued before his face: 10, Say ye among the Gen- tils that our Lord (g) hath reigned. {g) Diaers ancient Doctours read more in this place : Our Lord hath reioned from: the wood, to wit, Chrift by his death on the croflz conquered the diuel , finne 3 and death, and thence began to rcigne.S. Juftinus Martyr, dialogo aduerf, Triphonem Tertnilzan li. aduerf. ludxos.cy. & 13.& aduerf. Marcionem li.j3.c.19.& 27, S Aue gaftin in this place , according tothe old Roman Pfalrer. Berore him Arnobius, -3. Shew. forth his glorieamong the Gentils, his -meraelous workes irra! -5:-Becaufe -al: the Gods of-the-Gentils-are (e) diucls , but our-Lord (f) *;,Par. 19.U, 23. and. OF PSALMES. 177 For he hath corrcéted the round world, which thal not be moued: he wil iudge peoples in equitie. 11, () Let the heauens be glad , and the earth-reioyce, rhe fea be moued, and the fulneffe theroft 12.the fieldes shal be glad , and al things thar are in them, (h} The Pfalmitt in aboundance of fpirit inuiteth al creatures to praife God, as Dantel in his Canricle. c. 3. Then {hal the trees of the woods reioyce 13,.before the face of our Lord, becaufe he commeth : becaufe he commeth to iudge the earth, He (1) wiliudge the round world in equitic,and peoples in hisrruth. (i) Chriftiadgeth now inthe world by his minifters, difcerning and deciding caufes, rewarding and punishing, but efpecially he wil indgeal inthe laftday. PSALME XCVI1, Al the earth ss inuited toresoyce in-Chrifts Kingdom , 3. with de/cription of the fignes comming before the day of Iudgement. 7. Idolasers shal be confounded.

(e) in his holie court, (d) The firft thing in facrifice is to glorifie, honours , and adore God in dinceritie of fuirite , (e) inhig holie Catholike Church.

name:& may gierie,in thy prayfe, 48, Bleffed be our Lordthe God of Ifrael from cuerlafting vnto eucr- jafting: and al the people shal fay : Beit, be it, ANNO- ‘Ne. 10. Ust. L2, Deut. 2. y.2. OP I2. Vode es 3. ‘VTudic.2. v1 12, Tadic. 3. v.56. {oC ifererg, v5. 1.Par, 16.¥. mire OF PSALMES, 195 ANNOTATIONS, PSALME CY. this redemption ? Or is it a prophecie, thatthis was done in figure of Baprifme, where we areredeemed from the hand of the diuel by agreat price , whichtis the. bloud of Chrift? Wherupon it was more conueniently figured, net by what fea