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Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness…Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse…
Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness of sin. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse of sinne. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.
London: printed by Tho. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1638
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 DECEITFULness of sin.
THE DECEITFVLnesse of sinne.
PSAL. 119.29. Remove from me the way of lying, and grant me thy Law graciously.
PSAL. 119.29. Remove from me the way of lying, and grant mee thy Law gratiously.
TO press on to the words, and not to make any long Preface either with the commendation of this book of Psalms in general, or this Psalm in particular, only thus much, Interpreters ⟨p. 178⟩observe this Psalm as a Diamond among Pearls, or as the Gold among other metals, or as Saul higher then his brethren there is a kind of excellency which Interpreters conceive to be in this Psalm; partly in regard of the largeness of the matter, partly in regard of the spirit, and life, and strength that appeareth in every line therein; Not to trouble you with these tinglings which come only to the care, but are not sappy to nourish and affect the heart, only a little consider that the Lord by the Penman of this Psalm, doth strive after a spiritual kind of exquisiteness, dividing it into 22. Parts, according to the Hebrew Alphabet, and every part having two verses beginning with the same Letter. Secondly it is observable, that among 176. verses there is not above one or two ⟨p. 179⟩but mentioneth the Law of God, either Law, or Precepts, or Commandments, or Word, or Statutes, Testimonies or the like, as if the Prophet David had bestowed himself wholly, and had been eaten up with the Law of God. The aim of the Text is to discover the great desire that the holy Psalmist hath, and expresseth to God for the removal of the body of sin that was upon him, and for the supply of that grace he stood in need of, and craved at the hands of the Lord, and the two parts of David, prayer are the two parts of the Text; the first is the evil that he would have removed from him, first, take from me the way of lying, the second is the great good he needs, and begs and craves to be bestowed, upon him, grant me thy Law graciously.