Psalms — Chapter 108

vpon me, (a) The words of Chrift. (b) The Pharifees and Herodians ( Mat.22. ) with their mouth acknowledged Chrifta true fpeaker,& a teacher of the way-of God in truth, therby to draw liim into danger and co shead his blond.

impugned «me without caufe, (c) At orher,times they accufed him of grear-crimes , ‘laftly of treafon againft Cefar. . 4.For that they should loue me , they backbited me:bur1 prayed, 5. And they fet againft me euil things tor good: and haired for my loue.

(@) A predi@ion that ludas would not make recourfe to anie good counfeller , but complaine of his miferable tormented confcience to the wicked , who gaue him no comfortatal , (¢).and fo-defpairing, the diuel perfwaded him to bang him- f elfe. . .

RAB. 1. 8, Let his dayes be made few : and let an other.take his ( f ) bishopricke, _ (f) The office ox Apoftleship.

(g) The pofteritie or fucceffours of swicked perfecuters profper not long in this world. 10,Let his children be tranfported wandering, andet them beg:and let them be caft out of their habitations, 1x. Letthe vfurer fearch al his fubftance: and let ftrangers {poile his [a-. bours, 12, Let there be none to helpe him’: neither let there be anie tohaue pittie on his pupiis. _ 13. Ler! ont, 200 THE BOOK 13, Let his children come to deftruction:in (b) one geueration let hsi ‘his naine be cleane put out.. (h) Arch-heritikes that deuife new opinions, are shortly Forfaken,their folowers ftil coining new herefies of their owne, differing frem their falfe matter. 14, Let the iniguitie of his fathers returne to memoric in the fight of our Lord: and let net the finne of his mother-be blotted out. 15.” Letthem be before our Lord alwayes, and lerthe memorie of them. perish out of the earth : 16, For that he remembred nor to doe mercie.

(w) A prediction that impenitent finners: shal be damned , wherinzhe Prophet conforming his wil to Gods, veterethit informe of a prayer. PSALME CIIIL. The I{raclites are exhorted to fing praifes te God , 5. for his meruelovs benefits towards Lbrabkam , lasts and Iacob.11. Whofe particular familse , being then /mal, went from Chanaaninto Aegypt. (17. Whither Iofeph by Gods prouidence was caried before ) shere increafed in number was perfecuted , 26. delimered by Moyfes and Aaron, worksng manie great miracles,36. protected, and fed in the defer, 4 4.and finally poffelfed Chanaan. (4) Alleluia, (a) Alleluia fignifieth more then Laudate Dominum , Praife yeour Lord. Fox by thefe two hebrew words, Alleluia,the Prophet inuiteth al men to praife God, with gladnes , and iubilation , with hart, voice , and gefture , with inftruments , and Rowfoeuer-we are able. And therfore S. lerom,$. Auguftin , and al Catholike wri- ters keepe the fame words,and tranflate it not neither in the titles of Pfalmes , nor ordinarily in anie place ot holieScripture. This is the firft Pfalme thus titled, and is the fame Pfalmein ferfe, and in good part of the words , which the Royal Prophet ‘Ovededom into his owne houfe, 1. Par. 16.V. 8. +e cos ssz ye toour Lord, and inuocate his name (6) thew forth his workes amoug the Gentils. (b) How much grateful is itnow to God, that we celebrate the greater my fteries of thenew Teftament, 2, Chauntto him, and fing to him: tel ye al his meruclous workes, 3. Prayfe ye him inhis holie name : let the hart of them reioice thar feeke our Lord,

{mSTknow thou wilt help me, and fol befeech thee to dee,