The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…

The Prophet now considering all that he had said, namely, that all were in a blessed estate which keep Gods commandments, that they work none iniquity, that God had commanded the observation of his law, that he desired to observe it, lest he should ⟨p. 397⟩be confounded and that he should have just cause to magnify Gods name, when he had learned Gods word: he concludeth this portion in these words, I will keep, &c. In which observe, 1. a promise, 2. a prayer. A promise I will keep thy statutes: a prayer. O forsake me not over long, 4. I will keep, &c. 1. By thy grace and assistance, (for otherwise I am not able) I will lay up thy statutes, not in my closer to preserve them from corruption, nor in thine house to keep them from ruin, but in my memory to remember them, in mine heart to love and like them, and in my life to be directed by them. The word statutes, is in our English Liturgy translated Ceremonies, and indeed the hebrew word signifieth properly such constitutions and rites as were used in the Levitical Priest hood. And they were so named, because the ceremonies of Moses were not idle spectacles, or observations belonging to the outward man, but types, shadows, and pictures of far greater things. But happily by that figure Synecdoche, this part of the law, is used for the whole word of God▪ Yet note that David was not an improvident reader or observer of the Ceremonial law, but was careful to know what was meant by every ceremony, that in them he might find CHRIST the end of the Law; and in a word, that the Types of the ceremonial Law, and impossibility of the moral, might be as a school-master to bring him to JESUS CHRIST.