Psalms — Chapter 2
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Verse 2
Kings and Princes against Christ. When Christ and his Apostles preached the Ghospel, both Iewes and Gentiles, with their Princes, Kings, and Emperours most furiously resisted, but al in vaine. For they could not hinder the wil and power of God. But the more they persecuted, the more was increased the zeale and number of Christians. Persecution cannot hinder the glorie of Christ.
Verse 5
_ [ (bh) fevuerelyreprehend, (3) and iuftly punish the obftinate. .
Verse 8
The Gentiles thine inheritance. By this promise of God to Christ, S. Augustine conuinced the Donatists, and in them the Protestants, that say the Church of Christ is failed and become smal or inuisible: as though Christ the Sonne of God could sometimes lose his inheritance, which is the Catholike Church, gathered of the Gentiles, and his possession extended to the ends of the earth.
Verse 9
Gods inflexible wil & powcr. ; ; ioAnd (q) now ” ye Kings vynderftand::” taxe inftruction you that iudge the earth. (q)-A prophecie that Kings shal be conuerted, and fubmit themfelues xo Chrifts difcipline, . ; 11, Serue our Lord in (r) feare’s and “reioyce to him with trembling. r) None is fecure before death, 1 app.chend difcipline. ({) left fomerime our Lard be-wrath, and you perish out of theiuft way, ) Some fal from the way of faluation. . ; 13 when his wrath (t) shal burne in short time, bleffed are al that trufi inhim, (1) God wil indge iuftly in the end-of this shortlife both the euil and good, So this Pfalme conclude.h with the ainth key. ANNOTATIONS, PSALME,-II.- 7 2.Rings and Princes againft C brift, Whé Chrift,and his Apoftles preached the Ghiof= pel ,both Iewcs and Gentiles , with their Princes, Kings , and Emperours moft fu- riottly refitted, but al in vaine.For they could not hinder the wil and power of God; pau the more they perfecuted, the more was increafed the zeale and number of: riftians.