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

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 that God would make him his first-born, higher than the Kings of the earth, (when there were divers greater Kings, and (in comparison of the little spot over which he reigned) a vastly spreading Monarchy, that still overtopped him all his time, as the same and successive Monarchies did his Successors) or that it was intended of the secular glory and stability of his Throne and Family; that God would make them to endure for ever, ²and be as the days of Heaven; that they should be as the Sun before him, ³and be established for ever as the Moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.

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 confirm'd 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 grandieur and perpetuity of his Kingdom. As if it were ultimately meant of himself,¹ that God would make him his first-born, higher than the Kings of the earth, (when there were divers greater Kings, and (in comparison of the little spot over which he reigned) a vastly spreading Monarchy, that still overtopt him all his time, as the same and successive Monarchies did his Successors) or that it was intended of the secular glory and stability of his Throne and Family; that God would make them to endure for ever,