Psalms 48

Psalms 48:1

THE title: [Of Psalme] see upon the title of Psal. 30.

Psalms 48:2

Beautifull for scituation] not so much for temporall blessings, for which shee was called the Queen of the East, as for the spirituall ones, God being present there, and his service truly established there, and the promise being, that the Messias should there accomplish the worke of our redemption: [of the great King] which God had chosen for his Royall residence, where all his people are to come, to receive his commands, and to yeelde him hommage and service.

Psalms 48:4

The Kings] he speaks of some notable enterprise which was against the Church, as Psal 46. 6

Psalms 48:7

Thou breakest] the Italian, they were broken as the East wind, breaketh the Ships of Tarshish, thou dost overthrow all the preparations of men in the Sea of this world: [Of Tarshish]of the great Sea, either Mdterranean of Ocean: [With an East winde] which is a tempestuous winde in those countreys, Ier. 18. 17.

Psalms 48:8

As we have heard] that is to say, this deliverance of ours, is equall to those ancient deliverances whereof we have heard report: Or we have so and the effects to be according to thy words and promise.

Psalms 48:10

According to thy] thou makest thy selfe to be known such, as indeed thou art; and like unto such a one art thou praised and glorified.

Psalms 48:11

The daughters] the cities of the Tribe of Iudah, called daughters in respect of Ierusalem which was the Metopolis.

Psalms 48:12

Walk about] a poeticall representation, by which the world is invited to consider the inpregnable strength and magnificence of the Church, by reason of the presence of her God; even as singularities of the Fort or Castle of a City are shewed to Travellers, to the end, that the may spread the fame thereof into forraign parts a great way off.