A01981:1483
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 104: §. 104. Of the resolution and instructions of the last clause of the 16. 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.
But Thou hast loosed my bonds.
Therefore I am bound to praise thee.
Thus these words have a relation to the principal duty promised in this Psalm.
Thus these words have a relation to the principall duty promised in this Psalme.
They may also have an immediate reference to the other part of this verse, and that as an effect following from the cause. The Lord accounted him his servant, and therefore loosed his bonds. To make this reference the better discerned, some join this part of the verse with the former in one entire sentence, which they express in form of a petition thus, aI beseech thee, O Lord, seeing I am thy servant, I am thy servant, the son of thine hand-maid, loose my bonds. But the mood and btense whereby this last clause is expressed, admitteth not the form of petition.