Psalms — Chapter 77

(p) They frft (trufting in their owne ftrenoth ) without Gods commandment (Num. 14.) went forth to batle and were ouerthrowne.1 Par.7.v.21 . 10, They kept not theteftament of God: andin his law they would nor walke, 11, And they forgathis ber efits, and his meruelous works , which he shewed them, 12.Before their fathers he did meruclous things in the land of Aegypt, in field (4) of Tanis. (4) Tanis thejprincipal citie in Aegypt , neere the riuer Nilus , where Moyfes wroughthis great miracles. 13.He diuidedthe fea & brought themthrough: and he made the wa- terstoftand as ina bortle. S 3 14.And hot 142 THE BOOK 14, And he (r) conduéted themina cloud by-day: and-al the night by light of fire, (+) This cloud shadowed them from the heate of the funne inthe day, andthe fre shinedin the nights althetime that they werein the defert.. drink

({) In mount Horeb : and there was continual water in al the campe, which occus pied necere foure miles in length and breadth.

yet to finne vnto him : they prouoked the Higheft to wrath inthe place-(+) without water, (t) Which naturally wanted water : but by miracle had aboundance. 18, And they tempred.God intheir-harts : fothat they asked (¥) meats: for their liues. (v) Not content with Manna, they demanded to haue’ flesh.-

a table tor his people? (x) By bread in generafis vnderftood al competent meate vfualforatable: 4

ob, and wrath afcended vpon Ifrael. (y} For this incredulitie, mu rmuring , and other finnes,God keptthe children of Irae] teurtie yeares in the defert > tilai that were of age when they came trem » Aegypt, were dead, except only Iofue and Galeb. (z} Int ¢ meane time-amongtt . other punishments, manie murmurers were burnt to death with ftrage fre, Num.14.. 22, Becaule they belieued notin God, nor hoped in his{aluation,

thatit brought aboundance of quailes and-other ‘ birds into their campe. Exo. 16.Nu. 11.

fel. in the middes oftheir campe about their tabernaclés.

And they did eate and were filled exceedingly , and their defre he brought tothem:

(e) Immediately afeer a month { for fo long they had aboundance of thef; € birds, ibid.v.20.)they were ftrucken witha plaguc,& manic died for their cancupifcence, 1, And the wrath of God alcended vpon them, ; And he killed their fat ones, and (d) the chofen of Ifrael he hindred, (d) The moft fresh ftrong men died, and fo were hindred from poffeliing the promifed land of Chanaan. ; . ..

In al chefethings they finned as yet: and they belieucd not in his { meruclous workes,

) They offered morning facri fice.

And they loued him (g) with their mouth , and with their tong they did lie to him. (g ) But were not fincere intheir harts.

Buttheir hart was not right with him: neither were they counted faithful in histeftament.

(b) Howfoeuer multitudes of people commit great finnes , and are feuerely puni- iished , yer Gods mercie preferueth fome by his effectual grace ‘and neucr fuffereth the whole Churchco taile, mor to be deftroyed. And he abounded to turne away his wrath : and he kindled not aj his wrath.

not. As Ariftocle teacheth. Here the Hebrewes note the middes of the Pfalter, in 1263, verfes , and fo manie in the reft. 40,” How.(&) often haue they exafperated him in the defert: prouoked himto wrath inthe place without water, (k) The people of Ifrael murmured fo often in the defert, that it was not eafie to _telhowoften, See che Annotation. 41, And (1) they returned , and tempted God: and the holie one of Ifrael they exafperated. (4) For eftfoons repenting they-offended God againe andagaine.

How often did they exasperate him in the desert? Moses charging the people that they had still prouoked our Lord to wrath from the day that they came out of Egypt. Our Lord himselfe expoftulating their ingratitude saith they had tempted him ten times: First, neere vnto the red sea; Secondly, for want of sweete water; Thirdly, for lack of meate; Fourthly, keeping Manna for the next day contrarie to Gods commandement; Fifthly, going on the Sabbath day; Sixthly, for want of water in Raphidim; Seuenthly, in Horeb adoring a calfe; Eighthly, repining for their trauels in the wildernes; Ninthly, loathing Manna and burning with desire to eate flesh; Tenthly, despairing to possesse the promised land of Chanaan. All which, faith S. Paul, happened to them in figure of vs and are written for our correction, that we murmur not as they did.

They didnot remember his hand: in they that he redeemed them from the hand of the affliGt€s,

(m) The fir figne was in turning arod into a ferpent , which wasa miracle , but no plague: thcother fignes were alfo plagnes to the Agyptians.

lakes,and al forts of water, yea showers,or raine water which feldome happeneth in Agypt. jeermeee 45-He a ee cee a eae pam phason siren tte aber, aa one eee ene 56.And (g) they tempted, and exefperated God thehigheft, andthey 144 THE BOOK

(p) The fourth plague , inorder as theyare recited in Exodus, (q) The fecond plague. ;

(x) to fire, (wv ) Not only al trees , and plants , but alfobeafts were fubie& tothe haile, (x) and to firie lightnings. 49- He fentvpon them -(y) the wrath of his indignation: indignation, & wrath, andtribulation: immiffions (7) by euil Angels, (y) In thefe general termes , of wrath , indignation , and tribulation, the Praphet comprchendeth al the other plagues, towit, the third of fcinifes , the fifth or pefti- lence, the fixt of boyles in men and beafts,the ninth of darknes three dayes together. (=; Al which God fent by the minifterie of diuels , euil Angels.

was thus plagued, God brought Ifrael out of their feruitude, as a shepheard leadeth his sheepe, anddefendeth them. _ 53- And he brought them torth in.hope, and they teared not: and the fea couered their enemies, . 54- And he broughr them into (d) the mount of his (¢) fan@ification, the mount, which his right hand purchafed, (dj Iudeaa hillie countrie. (¢) Intothat countrie which God chofe , and endowed with man ze bleffings, And he caft (/) out the gentils from their face : and by lot he diuided the land of them ina cord of diftribution: 55And he made the tribes of Irae] to.dwel in their tabernacles, imyham, ——— kept not histeftimonies. (g) After the conqueft and quiet poffeffion, the Ifraelitcs often fel into groffe finnes, efpecially in the time ot Ludges, 57-And they turned away themfelues, & kepr northe couenant: euen as their fathers,chey were turned asa (b) crooked bow. (>) A crooked bow deceiueth tHe archer, fo this people failed to ferue God, and de- cciued themfclues.

(i) In their altars crected in hilsto Idols. (> By grauen images of Idols , they prouoked God to indignation. .

(e) For their fumes God fuffered the Arke to betaken, a 62, Andhe (p) thut vp his people inthe tword s.andhe diipifed his.in- herirance. (p) And the raelites to be foreaflided by theirenimies.

(q) The zele and tak wrath ef God fuffered thefe calamities to. happen.

Heli himfelfe bearing that the Arke wastaken,tel from his ftoole and broke his neck. 1. Reg. 4. 65,.And (f) our Lord was railed vp as one that fieepeth vas amightie man hauing‘furfed of wine, . Cf) Neuertheles God plagued the infidels, and conferued his Church. 1. Reg:s. 6€.And he firucke his enimies on the hinder parts : an cuerlafting re- proch he gaue tothem,

(t) As before.y. 60, 68, But he chofe the tribe (-v) of Juda,mount Sion which he loued, (v) After atime the Arke was brought into the tribe of luda.

Mat..3, = .Par. f7-Ue 2}. OF PSALME S&S, 141 2. I wil open my mouth in (¢ ) parables :1 wil fpeake (4) propofitions from the beginning. (c) Albeit the Prophet reciteth hiftorically things dene , yet the fame were para- bles, fimilicudes,and fipures of other things : (d) yea of fecret hidden Myftertes, obfeurely fignified in the old Teftament,and revealed in thenew.

tec them in che innocencie of his hart: and in the vnder- ttandings of (%) his hands he conducted them, () Prademly-véng hispewerand authoriie.. T ANNO. The people of Ifrael ofcen Murmured-in the defert. Ten times' more notori- oufly. aPrraey ae Tee 146 THE BOOS ANNOTATIONS, PSALME LXXVIL