A01981:1355
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 95: §. 95. Of the meaning and method of the fifteenth Verse.
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.
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his Saints.
The *second reason to enforce the equity of the duty before mentioned, to praise the Lord, is here expressed: being taken from the high account which God had of his 2life. This is here indefinitely set down in the third person, without any express application thereof to himself: yet so as by the precedent and subsequent matter it may evidently be gathered that he meant himself as well as others. For in the ⟨p. 201⟩verses before and after, he useth the first person, and expressly speaketh of himself, thus, I will pay, &c. I am thy servant, &c. To good purpose is this tender care of God thus indefinitely set down, as,
THe *second reason to enforce the equity of the duty before mentioned, to praise the Lord, is here expressed: being taken from the high account which God had of his 2life. This is here indefinitely set downe in the third person, without any expresse application therof to himself: yet so as by the precedent and subsequent matter it may evidently be gathered that he meant himself as well as others. For in the ⟨p. 201⟩verses before and after, he useth the first person, and expresly speaketh of himselfe, thus, I will pay, &c. I am thy servant, &c. To good purpose is this tender care of God thus indefinitely set downe, as,
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