The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child…

They that understand the whole Psalm to foresee the Messiah, and foretell of Christ, make this place parallel with that of John 17.19. And for their sake I sanctify my self, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. But here in the beginning of the Psalm, David prays to God for preservation, and for deliverance out ⟨p. 120⟩of some great evil, that it seems was upon him, or that he was in danger of. The argument that he useth, is, First his trust in God, as in the first verse, Preserve me O God, for in thee do I put my trust. And it was not an ungrounded and unwarranted trust, but that which proceeded from his interest he had in God, as in the second verse, O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, thou art my Lord: thou art mine, and my only God, in whom is all my confidence. But what if David should now perish in this distress, should God be any looser by it? David seems to acknowledge this, that though he should not be preserved, yet God was bound to preserve his own name, and his own cause; as it follows in the second verse, my goodness extendeth not to thee. Though I should live, yet it is little that I could do for thee. But to the saints that are in the earth, Though my goodness extendeth not unto thee, yet may I be of use to thy people, and unto thy Saints while I live; for it extends to ⟨p. 121⟩them, and they are those that my soul closeth with and hath delight in. O, therefore do I desire to live, and to be preserved, that I may be useful to them, that are thy Saints.

THey that understand the whole Psalme to foresee the Messiah, and foretell of Christ, make this place parallel with that of Iohn 17.19. And for their sake I sanctifie my self, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. But here in the beginning of the Psalme, David prayes to God for preservation, and for deliverance out ⟨p. 120⟩of some great evill, that it seems was upon him, or that he was in danger of. The argument that he useth, is, First his trust in God, as in the first verse, Preserve me O God, for in thee do I put my trust. And it was not an ungrounded and unwarranted trust, but that which proceeded from his interest he had in God, as in the second verse, O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, thou art my Lord: thou art mine, and my onely God, in whom is all my confidence. But what if David should now perish in this distresse, should God be any looser by it? David seems to acknowledge this, that though he should not be preserved, yet God was bound to preserve his own name, and his own cause; as it followes in the second verse, my goodnesse extendeth not to thee. Though I should live, yet it is little that I could do for thee. But to the saints that are in the earth, Though my goodnesse extendeth not unto thee, yet may I be of use to thy people, and unto thy Saints while I live; for it extends to