7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the beginning of the book it is written of me) that I should do thy will, O God. […] ⟨p. 206⟩God, unless it were, as you would say, covered with this form. It is necessary then that we come to the kingdom of Christ, before this be perfectly accomplished in all points, to wit, that God required no sacrifices. There is such another place in the 16. Psalm, vers. 10. Thou wilt not suffer thine holy one to see corruption. For albeit God should have delivered David from corruption as touching himself, yet this was truly and only fulfilled in Christ. There is great weight then in this speech, when he promiseth that he will do the will of God, for he leaves no place for the sacrifices. From hence then we gather, that he ceaseth not to obey God perfectly, although he use no sacrifices: which yet could not be true, till after the abolishing of the law. I deny not but David as well in this place, as in the 51. Psalm, ver. 18. doth not so lessen the estimation of the external sacrifices, but that he still preferred that which was principal: and yet we must not doubt but he stretched his sight to the kingdom of Christ in both places. The Apostle then witnesseth that Christ is rightly brought in speaking in this Psalm: where amongst the Commandments of God, the sacrifices which God so strictly required under the law, are not set in the last place.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the beginning of the booke it is written of me) that I should doe thy will, O God. 〈…〉 ⟨p. 206⟩God, vnlesse it were, as you would say, couered with this forme. It is necessarie then that we come to the kingdome of Christ, before this be perfectly accomplished in al points, to wit, that God required no sacrifices. There is such another place in the 16. Psalme, vers. 10. Thou wilt not suffer thine holy one to see corruption. For albeit God should haue deliuered Dauid from corruption as touching himselfe, yet this was truly and onely fulfilled in Christ. There is great weight then in this speech, when he promiseth that he will do the will of God, for he leaues no place for the sacrifices. From hence then we gather, that he ceaseth not to obey God perfectly, although hee vse no sacrifices: which yet could not be true, till after the abolishing of the law. I denie not but Dauid as well in this place, as in the 51. Psalme, ver. 18. doth not so lessen the estimation of the externall sacrifices, but that he still preferred that which was principall: and yet we must not doubt but he stretched his sight to the kingdome of Christ in both places. The Apostle then witnesseth that Christ is rightly brought in speaking in this Psalme: where amongst the Commandements of God, the sacrifices which God so streightly required vnder the law, are not set in the last place.
