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That inspired person, whoever he were, that marshalled the Psalms into the Method wherein we now enjoy them, seems to have had some respect unto the Affinity of Subjects therein handled, in his doing of it. Hence this Hundred-and-forty-fourth Psalm, with the rest unto the end of our Psalter, is employed in that business which we expect at the end of our pilgrimage to be put upon; even The magnifying of the LORD JEHOVAH. The Penman of this Composure, is by the Title of it, determined to be David, the sweet singer of Israel. Indeed some passages of it are by Him again repeated in both his first and his second Edition of the Eighteenth Psalm; and if the Primitive Christians in their Public Worship, are reported to have had no common satisfaction when they heard Aliquid Davidicum, any thing of David, sounded among them, tis ⟨p. 4⟩to be supposed, that we shall not therein come behind them. But the Occasion of the Composure is to be variously guessed at, as an un• th•g. Those whom we (upon uncertain grounds) reckon the […] Greek Translators, or rather Interpreters of the Old Testament, have so inscribed it, A Psalm of David against Goliath; so the Ethiopic likewise, and so the Vulgar Latin. And perhaps David's victory over Goliath, may be one thing referred unto in this Song of Zion. I find a Jewish Commentary particularly favouring such a Sentiment. But good old Hilary for one, justly and honestly declaims against the foisting in of this clause, where it should not be. Thus much then is all the Conjecture for which we have room left unto us: We may apprehend that the amiable David was now arrived through an Iliad of Mischiefs and whole Seas of Difficulties, unto a Settlement in his Kingdom over Israel; and that hereupon he now presents unto the Lord, both his Praises for the Vanquishment of the Enemies who had hitherto disquieted him, and his Prayers for the Continuance of his Tranquillity, maugre all future Opposition.

That inspired person, whoever he were, that marshalled the Psalms into the Method wherein we now enjoy them, seems to have had some respect unto the Affinity of Subjects therein handled, in his doing of it. Hence this Hundred-and-forty-fourth Psalm, with the rest unto the end of our Psalter, is employ'd in that business which we expect at the end of our pilgrimage to be put upon; even The magnifying of the LORD IEHOVAH. The P•nman of this Composure, is by the Title of it, determined to be David, the sweet singer of Israel. Indeed some passages of it are by Him again repeated in both his first and his second Edition of the Eighteenth Psalm; and if the Primitive Christians in their Publique Worship, are reported to have had no common satisfaction when they heard Aliquid Davidicum, any thing of David, sounded among them, tis