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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.
Wherefore to take the words as our English hath truly and properly translated them, thus, Thou hast loosed my bonds, cThe word translated, loosed, doth properly signify, to open; and thus it is diversly applied, as to the parts of ones body, dmouth, eeyes, fears, &c. To the earth (and that when gordinarily it openeth it self to receive rain, or seed, or extraordinarily, has when it opened it self to devour Dathan and his associates.) To the iengraving of stones, kmetals, or any like thing. To ldoors, mgates, ntreasures, and such like. To othe drawing out of a sword: and to the undoing, opening, and loosing of such things as are bound. Thus this word is used to express pthe undoing of a girdle ⟨p. 225⟩wherewith a man is girt: the qopening of a sack that is tied: and the