Psalms 7

Psalms 7:1

Lion - Which rangeth all places for prey. The birds and beasts have often led men to such places as otherwise they should never have found out; but they could not lead them to these mines, the finding out of them is a special gift of God.

Psalms 7:2

He, &c. - This and the two next verses mention other eminent works of God, who overturneth rocks, and produceth new rivers.

Psalms 7:3

Seeth - Even those which no human art or industry was ever able to discover.

Psalms 7:5

That wisdom - Man hath one kind of wisdom, to discover the works of nature, and to perform the operations of art; but as for that sublime wisdom which consists in the knowledge of God and ourselves, no man can discover this, but by the special gift of Cod.

Psalms 7:6

Found - Among men upon earth, but only among those blessed spirits that dwell above.

Psalms 7:7

The depth - This is not to he found in any part of the sea, though a man may dig or dive ever so deep to find it, nor to be learned from any creature.

Psalms 7:13

Whence, &c. - By a diligent inquiry, we find at length, that there is a twofold wisdom; one hid in God, which belongs not to us, the other revealed to man, which belongs to us and to our children.

Psalms 7:14

Hid - The line and plummet of human reason, can never fathom the abyss of the Divine counsels. Who can account for the maxims, measures and methods of God’s government? Let us then be content, not to know the future events of providence, ’till time discover them: and not to know the secret reasons of providence, ’till eternity brings them to light.

Psalms 7:15

Death - The grave, the place of the dead, to ‘which these things are here ascribed, as they are to the depths, and to the sea, by a common figure. Though they cannot give an account of it themselves yet there is a world, on which these dark regions border, where we shall see it clearly. Have patience, says death: I will fetch thee shortly to a place where even this wisdom shall be found. When the veil of flesh is rent, and the interposing clouds are scattered, we shall know what God doth, though we know not now.

Psalms 7:16

God - God alone. The way - The methods which he takes in the management of all affairs, together with its grounds and ends in them. The place - Where it dwells, which is only in his own mind.

Psalms 7:17

For - He, and he only knows it, because his providence, is infinite and universal, reaching to all places, and times, past, present, and to come; whereas the most knowing men have narrow understandings, and the wisdom, and justice, and beauty of God’s works are not fully seen ’till all the parts of them be laid together.