A01981:856
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 49: §. 49. Of the exposition and resolution of the eight 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.
*Death is here put for such a desperate distress as threatened death. In the case wherein he was (to use the Apostles 2phrase) he despaired even of life: he had the sentence of death in himself: and thus God who raiseth the dead delivered him from a great death. The words therefore are not literally to be taken of a miraculous raising from death: but his distress is *thus by this word, death, set out to aggravate his danger, and to amplify Gods deliverance. Hereof see more on Vers. 3. §. 15.
*Death is here put for such a desperate distresse as threatned death. In the case wherein he was (to use the Apostles 2phrase) he despaired even of life: he had the sentence of death in himselfe: and thus God who raiseth the dead delivered him from a great death. The words therefore are not literally to be taken of a miraculous raising from death: but his distresse is *thus by this word, death, set out to aggravate his danger, and to amplifie Gods deliverance. Hereof see more on Vers. 3. §. 15.
- *Metonymia effecti.
- 22 Cor. 1. 8, 9.
- *In abstracto.
The tears of his eyes are here mentioned to show how he was affected with that affliction. Tears are outward effects and signs of inward anguish. When Jerusalem was carried captive into a strange land,