Psalms — Chapter 105

(e) According ro they wonted beneuolence,promifed tothy people. .

inheritance,. oh (f) That’ we-may fee and enioy the benefits promifed to thyne ele.

(b) dealt vniuftly, we haue (;) done iniquitie,. (g), We haue erred and hurt our felues:(h)wehaue wronged ourneghbours: (i) we. haue offended aguinft God.

prouoked the¢ to wrath going vp vnrothe fea, the Red fea, 8, And he fauedthem (4) for his name fake; that he might make his (k) Albeit the people by their murmuring deferued more punishment ,-yet Ged . for the gluric of his owne name faued them trom vtter deftru@ion, -9, And herebuked the Red {ea,and it was madedrie; and he led them to. And he faued them from the hand of}them that hated them: and “he redeemed them out of the hand of rhe enemie. tt,And waterouerwhelmedthofe that afflicted them: there-did not one of themremaine. 12, Andthey belieued his words:and they fang his praifes. ey Iudith 1Pv. az e Exed. 14.%. 14, 13.They ate Exo. 16. és 17. Nw. 16. Exe.23. Exo, 32. Nuwig- 14.%. $21.22. 1s v3. OF PSALMES, 193

(d)doe iuftice at al time... (¢) Icis a happie ftate m this life , eitherto keepe Gods law: (d) ortorepent and doc worthic penance for tranfgrefsing.

perfeuered not long in their dutie towards Ged , feeing his omnipotent. ! power by his meruelons workes: (m) nor wete content with his prouidence , but- carnally coueted things not neceffarie. \: j

gaue them their petition sand fent faturitie into their (n) foules, _ () According to their carnal defires, ; 16, And they prouoked Moyies in the campe : Aaron the (0) holie of our Lord. . (0) Holie by his fun@ion. a

in their finagogue :the-flame burnt the finners,

(q) God being their true glorie, they changed him for a falfeGodof the Agy- tians ( who efpecially honoured a calfe called Apis)making and image therof, and’ attribued their deliuerie trom Agyptto this imagned God.Exo. 32.v.4. 8. Of which andthe like fooltsh and abominable idolatrie S. Paul writeth , Rom. 1. v.23. They changed the glorie of the incorruptibie God into a fimilitude of the image of a corruptible man, and’of foules, and of foure footed beafis,and of them that crecpe, Where we fee what manner of images holie Scriptures condemnc,and not the images ot Chrift and his Saints. 21, They forgat God, which faued them , which did great things in AcgyPts 22. meruclous things in the land of Cham, terrible things in the Rediea,

that he fhould not deftroy them: 24. and they efteemed tor naught the land that wasto be deured.

lifeed-yp his hand ouer them: to ouerthrow them inthe defere: 27.And to caft downe their feede among the Nations:& to ditperfe them in the countries, 28-And they were profeffed to ({) Beelphegor : and they did cate the fa-- crifices (+) of thedead, : (f) The Idol of Moabites, andMadianites. (\t) As God is indeedthe liuing God; that Jineth of himfelfc,and gineth lite to others:fo falfe Gods are called dead Gods, thar can not giue lite to anie but-dee kil al that feruethem ; at leaft fpirmually and often corperally. Oe ; 29.And they. prouoked him mtheir inuentions : & rume was multiplied onthem, Tom 2, Aa 30. And pear) A verie fit prayer in time of {chifme. hated them had the dominion of them, .

the whole world:12. prayeth for bss ferwants,-ynd ersaking to (arufie for their finnes. 1, Wnto (a) the end,a Pfalme to Dauid himfelfe, (4) Pertcyning vnto the new Teftament.

He redeemed them. What price or ransom (faith S. Augustine) was giuen in this redemption? It is a prophecie that this was done in figure of Baptisme, where we are redeemed from the hand of the diuel by a great price, which is the bloud of Christ. Whereupon it was more conueniently figured not by what sea soeuer, but by the red sea: For bloud hath red colour. And touching the effect of Baptisme destroying all former sinnes: as the Israelites passed safely through the red sea and all the Egyptians going in with them were drowned, so the baptised are saued in the water of Baptisme and all their sinnes are destroyed.

And itavas reputed to him vnto iuftice, in generation and genera- tion euen for euer,

(w) Moyfes was vexed for them:33.becaute they exafperated his fpirit. (w) Moyfes affliéed in fpirit,by the cnormious murmuri'ng of the people,doubted whether God would gine them water out of the rock or no: not doubting of his his power , but of his wil: and fo when he should haue fpoken to the rock, Num.20. v.8. he fpoke to the incredulous people. v. 10, and therin offended Gad : for which he was temporally punished. y. 12. Deut.r.y.37.&¢. 3.V. 26.04. v.20, And he playnely afirmed in his lips,3 4, they deftroyed nor the nations, of which our Lord {fpakero them.

(x) they thed innocent bloud : the bloud of their fonnes and of their daughters , which they facrificed to the fculptils of Chanaan, (x) Some Iewes offered thefe moft cruel, ynnatural , and abominablefacrifices, perhaps in rhe times of Ludges, when they were mingled with idolatrous people, and ferued their Gods. Ind.2.v. iz. ¢. 3.¥.6, Bucit is more expreffe aiter Dauids time, wherot hehere prophecieth , and was vervfied by Achas. 4..Reg.16.v..3. and by Manafies. 4. Reg. 21. y. 6. ‘Which with.other idolatrie King Iofias déftroved,

Andthe land was infected with bloud,3 9.& was contaminated in their workes: and they did tornicate in their inuentions,

them intothe hands of the nations ; and they that their hands: 43. he did often deliver them, But they exafperated him in their counfel: and they were humbled in their iniquities. . 44, And he( y)law-when they were afflicted:and he heard their prayer, (y ) God refpeéted them with his merciful eye,and gaue them grace to repent, —

(v) pacified: and the flaughter ceafed, (v) Phinees moited py the zele of God (as the holie text witnefleth, Num.2 s.y.11.) in killing the adulterers pleafed God,and merited reward.

(z) Here the Pfalmift concludeth both the hiftarie and prophecie of this Pfalme, with prayer and praife,as toloweth,