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Two discourses I. of the punishment of sin in hell, demonstrating the wrath of…
Two discourses I. of the punishment of sin in hell, demonstrating the wrath of God to be the immediate cause thereof : II. proving a state of glory for just men upon their dissolution / by Tho. Goodwin ...
London: printed by J.D. for Jonathan Robinson, 1693
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.
DAVID's Meditation, Psal. XLIX.
The most of these things hitherto by way of Use spoken by me, are no other than what David himself spends one whole Psalm together upon; it is Psal. 49. ⟨p. 239⟩and styles it The Meditation of his Heart, vers. 3. which caused me to entitle that former about what it is to dye, a Meditation rather than an Use; as I had done that of Moses also, Psal. 90. This of David's I shall here add, to set the deeper seal and weight upon all that hath been treated.
The most of these things hitherto by way of Use spoken by me, are no other than what David himself spends one whole Psalm together upon; it is Psal. 49. ⟨p. 239⟩and styles it The Meditation of his Heart, vers. 3. which caused me to entitle that former about what it is to dye, a Meditation rather than an Ʋse; as I had done that of Moses also, Psal. 90. This of David's I shall here add, to set the deeper seal and weight upon all that hath been treated.
He begins the Psalm, and shows the moment of these matters, though in view but ordinary, with as solemn a Preface and Proclamation, calling upon attention and heed hereto, as any where we find in Scriptures. 1. In the first verse he summons all the World into a Ring about him, Hear ye this all the People; give Ear all the Inhabitants of the World. And 2. particulariseth forth his Auditors into all sorts of Conditions, vers. 2. Both low and high, rich and poor together. For why? what he was to utter to them, did as much concern the one as it did the other, and behoved them all alike to look to; as being that which especially concerned them in respect unto their Being in the other World, how different soever their Condition was in this. And 3. he cries up the matter it self, as the greatest Wisdom, vers. 3. and a deep mysterious Parable and dark saying, vers. 4. My Mouth shall speak of Wisdom, and the Meditation of my Heart shall be of Understanding: