Psalms 16

Psalms 16:4

that hasten] Or give gifts to another god. See Ezek. XVI. 33, 34. The true God needs them not, ver. 2. But false gods do; which gifts do redound in the end to the dammage and sorrowes of the givers.

their drink-offerings of blood] Their Offerings and Sacrifices of mans blood. The drink-offerings to the true God, were of wine, according to his Law, Num. XV. 5. But Idolaters in stead thereof did many times offer mans blood. Pauls readinesse to be offered, Phil. II. 17. 2 Tim. IV. 6. imports no more then his willingnesse to die and spend his blood, for Christs cause, and the good of his Church and people.

their names] See the Observations on Josh. XXIII. 7.

Psalms 16:8

I have set the Lord] Acts II. 25,—31. and XIII. 35,—37. David speaks here of himself, in this regard, as having Christ in his loins, in a Prophetical spirit relating to Christ.

Right hand] Psal. CIX. 31. & CX. 5. & CXXI. 5.

Not be moved] Psal. CXVIII. 6. CXXXV. 1. Rom. VIII. 31, &c.

Psalms 16:9

My glory] My tongue, Acts II. 26. Psal. XXX. 12. and LVII. 8. and CVIII. 2. Gen. XLIX. 6.

My flesh also] As Rom. VIII. 19. 21.

Psalms 16:10

my soul in hell] A Prophesie of Christs Resurrection. David speaks here in the Person of Christ.

Soul] Sometimes is taken properly, sometimes improperly, for the whole person of man, Gen. XIV. 12. Acts XXVII. 37. sometimes for the life of the person, sometimes for the body, Gen. XVII. 21. sometimes for the dead carkasse, Levit. XIX. 28. and XXI. 1, 2. Num. VI. 6. and V. 2, 9, 10. Hag. II. 14. And so 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is taken also. Here, my soul, i. e. my self.

hell] the Hebrew 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is taken for the grave, Psal. CXLI. 7. and LXXXVI. 13. and XXX. 13. and LV. 15. Gen. XXXVII. 35. and XLII. 3. 1 Kings II. 6, 9. Num. XVI. 30. Jonah II. 1, 2. Not for a place of souls under the earth.

See Doctor Rainolds, Praelect. 81. & 82. upon the Apocryphal books: and Robert Parker upon Christs Descent into hell; 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is taken for death, or the state of the dead: for the place invisible; for the grave, in relation to the body, Acts II. 27. And in relation to the soul, for heaven to the godly soul, as in our Creed; and for Hell, to the soul ungodly; and so most usualy. Christs soul did not descend to the lower parts, or that imaginary place of Limbus Patrum. This place here meant is a place of punishment, and therefore it is mentioned as a mercy, that Christ was thence delivered; Christs soul was not therefore there in triumph. The scope of the Apostles in citing this place is not to deale about the deliverance of Christs soul out of Hell, but punctualy of Christs Resurrection: They inferre nothing else out of this Text. But Resurrection is properly of the Body, not of the Soul.

Gehenna is sometimes taken for the Grave; and most-times further, for Hell it self. The true meaning and sense of the Article of Christs Descent into Hell, as the Latines very improperly translate the words, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, seemes to be thus rendered rather, he went into the place of invisible souls: and to be understood of Christs Soul; for his body remained in the Grave; And his soul in that interim to passe to the place of souls; to Heaven or Paradise; as the souls of the godly did, and his principaly.

As the souls of the wicked went to Hell. For 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 as a general name doth certainly and evidently signifie both places. And thus the Articles go on methodicaly, without any tautologie; That after Christs death, his body was buried in the Grave, his Soul went to the place of blessed souls; and the third day, both soul and body were reunited in his Resurrection. This then, and two before, and one following, are most properly meant of Christ, and of his Resurrection. Acts II. 25,—28, 31. and XIII. 35, 36, 37.

Psalms 16:11

Thou wilt shew me] Experimentaly.

me] Christ speas of himself.

the path of life] Of glory after his Resurrection. All this true of Christ the head; and in and by him, true also of David, of all his members. Christs Resurrection, and Glorification is the beginning of ours; he the Author, and meanes of it to us; in our first Resurrection here by Regeneration, to the life of Grace; whereby Christ lives in us, Gal. II. 20. He in us, and we in him by Faith, Ephes. III. 17. Rom. I. 17 And in our second Resurrection, to the life of Glory; as followes in. this verse.

In thy presence] Before thy face; in the light of thy countenance. See Gen. XXXII. and Exod. XXXIII. 14, 15. Num. VI. 23. Psal. IV. 6. and XXXI. 16. and LXXX. 3. Deut. XXXIV. 10. Esay VI.

fulnesse] Yet all the former but in part, whiles we are in the way; in fulnesse, when we come to our countrey, or heavenly Canaan, Job XIX. 26, 27. 1 John III. 2. 1 Cor. XIII. 12. Matth. V. 8. And yet this beatifical Vision of God in glory shall be to our fulnesse; not to his. The fulnesse of his infinite Essence, by any created power of Saint, or Angel by the eye of flesh, though glorified, or by the intellectual eye of a soul or spirit glorified cannot be seene, 1 Tim.

VI. 16. But to our fulnesse, as farre as creatures are capable of, our vessel thrown into this infinite Sea, shall be brim full, though it containe not all this Ocean, Psal. XVII. 15. And how great then shall this fulnesse then be, when of things in this kinde revealed of God to his Apostles in this life, by his Spirit, the Apostle so speaketh, as we read, 1 Cor. XI. 9. out of Esay LXIV. 4? This is a fulnesse beyond all that of Faith, and Hope, a fulnesse that fills up all desires, a fulnesse of fruition, of satisfaction, without satiety.

Apoc. III. Consider that saying of the Queen of Sheba, 1 King. X. 8. and of the Disciples at Christs Transfiguration, Mat. XVII. 4.

At thy right hand] And by thy right hand, Psal. XX. 7. LXIII. 9. CXVIII. 16.

for evermore] Without which eternity there were no true felicity.