Psalms 17

Psalms 17:1

THe right] namely, by declaring and defending my right and innocency, oppressed by mine enemies [Goeth not out of] which is free from hypocrisie, vaine boasting, and malicious deceit.

Psalms 17:2

Proceed] that is to say, from the sentence which thou shalt give, let it appeare that I am innocent; which mine innocencie being known unto thee, I beseech thee to defend it.

Psalms 17:3

In the night] namely, when hee was most private and retired, when being hidden from all others, hee was onely manifest to thee, and being free from all worldly cares, was all gathered within himselfe, and having laid of the maske of worldly dissimulation, hee appeared naked in his true being: [Tryed me] thou hast proved me by thy severe examination, as metall is tried in the furnace: [Nothing] that was false or evill: [My mouth] my words are all true loyall & correspondent to the iuward thoughts of my heare.

Psalms 17:4

The works] that is say, in all my conversation and ordinary course of life: [by the word] namely, by it have I been guided and kept in.

Psalms 17:6

For thou wilt heare mee] that is to say, thou wert accustomed to heare me.

Psalms 17:7

By thy right hand] Others, thou that savest those which put their trust in thee from them that rise against thy right hand; that is to say, against thy Kingdom and will.

Psalms 17:10

They are] their worldly prosperity ruffeth them up, and makes them insensible and obdurate against all reason and just feare; and the Scripture doth use this terme of a fattened heart in this sence, because that the fat of man hath no feeling in it, and those that are very fat are lesse subject to the passion of feare.

Psalms 17:14

Of the world] whose heart is altogether set upon worldly things, & who raigning in this world, make no account of any other happiness, and finally are against thee and thy Church, holding with the world, see Ier. 17. 3. [with thy hid treasure] that is to say, with thy temporall goods.

Psalms 17:15

In righteousnesse] if I endeavour my selfe to holinesse and righteousnesse, I shall have thee alwayes present by thy grace in this life; and after my happy resurrection, I shall see thee face to face as thou art, and I shall bee fully and perfectly enlightned by thy glory, Matth. 5. 8. 1 Corinthians 13:12. [thy likenesse] not with any created image, or representation, but with the essentiall manifestation of God, as hee is really himselfe, and in his glory, which is the forme of God, Philippians 2:6. and shall see God as hee is, 1 John 3:2.