A01981:1677
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 115: §. 115. Of the meaning and method of the last 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 substance of that which he intendeth by this description of the place is to show that he would perform the forenamed duties in public and populous places, such were the courts of the Lords house, where all the people of the Lord met together. Such also was Jerusalem the metropolis, and chief city of the Kingdom, where the Kings court was, and whither all of all sorts resorted. And that he might not be thought to intend to do it in a private corner of the city, closely and secretly, he addeth, in the middest, in the most open and populous part of that ample and populous place: which implieth an holy boldness: he would not be ashamed to bind himself publicly to perform such bounden, public duties. Yea further to show how his heart was set on that place where the Ark of the Lord was, by a most elegant and familiar kind of turning his speech to that place, as 1speaking to a most familiar friend in whom he delighted, he saith, thee, O Jerusalem. In the midst of thee.
The substance of that which he intendeth by this description of the place is to shew that he would performe the forenamed duties in publike and populous places, such were the courts of the Lords house, where all the people of the Lord met together. Such also was Ierusalem the metropolis, and chiefe city of the Kingdome, where the Kings court was, and whither all of all sorts resorted. And that he might not be thought to intend to do it in a private corner of the city, closely and secretly, he addeth, in the middest, in the most open and populous part of that ample and populous place: which implieth an holy boldnesse: he would not be ashamed to bind himselfe publikely to performe such bounden, publike duties. Yea further to shew how his heart was set on that place where the Arke of the Lord was, by a most elegant and familiar kind of turning his speech to that place, as 1speaking to a most familiar friend in whom he delighted, he saith, thee, O Ierusalem. In the midst of thee.
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