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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.
This phrase then (thou hast loosed my bonds) is metaphorical. It implieth two things.
This phrase then (thou hast loosed my bonds) is metaphoricall. It implieth two things.
1 That he was in sore and grievous afflictions, wherewith he was as it were bound, as a man that is taken by robbers and pirates, or by enemies, and fast bound by ropes, chains, or other like bonds. Thus yJeremiah among other Jews that were taken captives by the Babylonians, was bound.
1 That he was in sore and grievous afflictions, wherewith he was as it were bound, as a man that is taken by robbers and pirates, or by enemies, and fast bound by ropes, chaines, or other like bonds. Thus yIeremiah among other Iewes that were taken captives by the Babylonians, was bound.
2 That the Lord delivered him from those afflictions, which deliverance was a kind of loosing those bonds, so as they continued not to bind him as before. Thus Nebuzaraden said to Jeremiah, z