A01981:1008
The saints sacrifice
The saints sacrifice: or, a commentary on the CXVI. Psalm Which is, a gratulatory psalm, for deliverance from deadly distress. By William Gouge, D.D.The saints sacrifice: or, a commentarie on the CXVI. Psalme Which is, a gratulatory psalme, for deliverance from deadly distresse. By William Gouge, D.D.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1632
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Section 66: §. 66. Of the meaning and doctrine of the 10 and 11 Verses.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
(I believed: therefore have I spoken. I was greatly afflicted.
(I beleeved: therefore have I spoken. I was greatly afflicted.
I said in my haste, All men are liars.)
I said in my haste, All men are lyars.)
These two verses are a digression from his forementioned profession, which is prosecuted in the verses immediately after these: so as they may not unfitly be included in a parenthesis.
THese two verses are a digression from his forementioned profession, which is prosecuted in the verses immediately after these: so as they may not unfitly be included in a parenthesis.
The Prophet in penning this Psalm was even ravished with an holy admiration of the great deliverance which he had, and that beyond his expectation. Hereupon, as men in such cases use to do, he falleth into digressions concerning the greatness of his distress, the weakness of his flesh, yea and of his recovery of himself after that weakness: which is here noted in the first place, thus, J believed, &c.