Psalms — Chapter 54

H* A RE my prayer,o God, defpife nor my petition, A 43, Atcendtome and heare me.

(g)So inwardly afflicted, asir death were achand. 6, Feare and trembling are come vpan me : and (b) darkenes hath coue- red mie, ( bt haue fearfe fenfe , or difeourfe of reafon , being almoft ouerwhelmed with trouble,

(i) Would GodI could flie,that m the fimplicitieofa doue , I might fpeedily part away fromthefe afti@ions. .

(k) Thane fled fo tarre as I could fromtroubles: . .

(x) Ic is a grearer griefeto fuffer iniuries of thofe that feeme to be treinds. And if he that hated me had {poken great things vpon m¢: I would pethaps haue hid my felfe :rom him,

Cy) A man that was, or feemed of the fame mind, faith, and religion, (z) whom I fo trufted,that I would have gone,whitherfoeuer he should hane led me. 15-Which diddeft(a)cake fweere meats together wich me:in the (b, houfe of God we walked with confent. (4) Thou that didft participate the fanre holie facraments with me,(b) in the Ca tholike Church. 16, Let (¢) death come ypon them: and letthem goe downe quicke inzo he}, _ (¢)As Core & his complices:fpoken of iuft zele, not of defire to reuenge: verified ° in thofe that finne wittingly and knowing, for they defcend,as it were aliue into hel, Becaufe there is wickednes intheir habitations >in (4) the middes of! them, (d) The whole crew’of the wicked confpire in iniquitie. 17.BurI haue cried to God,and our Lord wii{aue me. *or pray, 18. In (e) the euening , and morning, & at midday,1 wil * fpeake, and & declare, and he wil heare my voice, (e) The Prophet alludeth to three more {pecially appointed houres of Diuine fer. ' uice,the daylie facrifice at moriting,and evening !, and other facrifices commonly a-1 bout midday, Which alfo are the three principal times of Dinine Seruice in the Church of Chrift :Mattins, Euenfong , and the Sucrifice of Maile. Which Eutymius - and other Grecians cal Lymrgiam.S. Clementalfo (li.7.c2 Se Apoft.Inftit.)ceftitieth - thatthe Apoftles ordained three fet houres of common prayer euerie day.

(f) they were with me. Cf) Manie enimies combined together approched vnto me , to ouerchrow me. \

21 Forthere is(+) no change with them,& they feared not God: he hath ftreached torth his hand in repaying, (>) They wil never repentvof their wickednes,

thy Hands, Tothecis che poore left: to the orphane thou wilt be an helper,

wrath: (4) but Gods prouiderce illuminateth others to know and teach the truth,when it is impugned or concemned, (1) His words are made ‘ofter then oile:and (m) rhe fame are darts, (L) Gods words, which in themfelues are meeke and fweere » (m) arehardto the incr:dalo.ts,& as darts that wound tem, Chrift faid (loan, 6.) Vinnie. one eate my flesh & drinke my bload , be shal nor hane life in him, which the Capnearnaites not vnderftanding faid onc to another: Tisis isa hard fpeach , Who ean sbide it? which S.Auguftin here foirh was the firft herehe s9siattour Sauiours preaching. Ir was not Jhardto S.Peter,whoin the'name or the reitjanfwered, thar Chrifi hed the w ords of Tom. 2, @) (tC ids: eat in danger. The 8 key. 106 THE BOOR eternal lize.He yet vnderftocd not the fecret of our Lords fpeach, but he pioufly be- icucd char the words were good, which he vnderftood not. 23, (n) Caftthy care yponour.Lord : and he wil nourish thee: he wil not giue (0) fluctuation tothe iuft-tor euer. ficulties which furpafie thy weaknes,caft thy care vpon our Lord, and he wil nourish thee. “o Hewil not fuffer the iuftto remaine alwayes in fu@uation,that is,in doubt. ful dangerous,and wauering thoughts or perplexities as when a ship is coffed in the waues of the fea, but wil giue quict repoie of mind,as in afure hauen without dan- ger or drowning. ction, (p) Contrariwife the wicked and obftinate shal fal into deftru&ion. hopein thee,o Lord. ¢q) Often or for moft part bloud-fuckers dye before the courfe of nature requi~ reth,as Saul,Abfolon,Achitopbel, Achab, Lezabel,and the like. PSALME LY, Dauids prayer pauid being in danger before Achis King of Geth, confidently smplareth Gods hel pe.againft the great malice and power of lis enimies; 8 foretheweth their ruine,hss owne exaltation, 1 2.and offereth praifes and thanks.