A01981:1504
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.
The immediate reference sets it down as an effect of that relation which was betwixt God and him. He was Gods servant, therefore God loosed his bonds.
The immediate reference sets it downe as an effect of that relation which was betwixt God and him. He was Gods servant, therefore God loosed his bonds.
The remote reference expresseth it as a cause of his praising God. God loosed his bonds, therefore he would praise God.
So also doth the immediate inference of the 17 verse: Because thou, O Lord, hast loosed my bonds, I will offer praise to thee.
The thin• implied, bonds, intimateth that
I. Saints may fall into inextricable perplexities: Even such as they fall into who are bound with cords and chains, and know not how to unloose them. Hereof before on verse 3. §. 16.