The vanity of this mortal life, or, Of man, considered only in his present…

We see he did quickly look further, and had got a more lightsome prospect, when in the next words we find him contemplating Gods sworn loving-kindness unto David. ¹The truth and stability whereof he at the same time expressly acknowledges, while only the form of his speech doth but seem to import a doubt [where are they?] But yet [they were sworn in truth] Upon which argument he had more copiously dilated in the former part of the Psalm; and it still lay deep in his soul, though he were now a little diverted from the present consideration of it.

We see he did quickly look further, and had got a more lightsome prospect, when in the next words we find him contemplating Gods sworn loving-kindness unto David. ¹The truth and stability whereof he at the same time expresly acknowledges, while only the form of his speech doth but seem to import a doubt [where are they?] But yet [they were sworn in truth] Upon which argument he had more copiously dilated in the former part of the Psalm; and it still lay deep in his soul, though he were now a little diverted from the present consideration of it.

1. 1V. 49.

Which, since it turns the scales with him; It will be needful to enquire into the weight and import of it. Nor have we any reason to think that David was either so little a Prophet or a Saint, as in his own thoughts to refer those ⟨p. 5⟩magnificent things (the instances of that loving-kindness confirmed by Oath, which he recites from the 19 verse of the Psalm to the 38, as spoken from the mouth of God, and declared to him by vision, to the dignity of his own person, and the grandeur and perpetuity of his Kingdom. As if it were ultimately meant of himself,¹