Whereupon we find the Church entertaining many holy Resolutions, as fruits and expressions of that her joy. She resolves to trust in the Lord for ever, in regard of his strength and fidelity towards his people, and of his power and jealousy against their enemies, ver. 4, 5, 6, 7. She resolves to wait upon God in the midst of judgements, upon the remembrance of that Name of his, whereby he made himself known to his people in Egypt, Exod. 34 6, 7. as a God able to give being to every promise, and by his truth and power to perform what his mercy had covenanted to do for her, Micah 7. 20. ver. 8, 9, 12. And this confident waiting upon God in trouble is commended ab opposito by the contrary disposition of wicked men, whom favours and mercies cannot persuade to learn righteousness, ver. 10, 11. She resolves to submit to Gods fatherly Government alone, and to renounce all other usurping and tyrannical Lords, who had exercised domination over her, in regard of Gods judgements executed on them, and his mercies renewed to his people, v. 13, 14, 15. She resolves to pour out her prayer unto God in the midst of all present troubles, acknowledging her own impotency, and the miscarriage of all her own carnal counsels and contrivances, and thereupon trusting no longer in her self, but in God which raiseth the dead, ver. 16, 17, 18, 19. Lastly, after all these pious dispositions and noble resolves, she concludeth her song with a triumphal Epinicion ⟨p. 3⟩and insultation over all her enemies, and with an assurance that as they should die and not live, fall and not rise, their persons and their memories should perish, ver. 14. so she should live, and rise and sing, and flourish, as the herbs buried in the Earth, when the dew of Heaven falls on them to refresh them, ver. 19.
Whereupon we find the Church entertaining many holy Resolutions, as fruits and expressions of that her joy. She resoves to trust in the Lord for ever, in regard of his strength and fidelity towards his people, and of his power and jealousie against their enemies, ver. 4, 5, 6, 7. She resolves to wait upon God in the midst of judgements, upon the remembrance of that Name of his, whereby he made himself known to his people in Egypt, Exod. 34 6, 7. as a God able to give being to every promise, and by his truth and power to performe what his mercy had covenanted to do for her, Micah 7. 20. ver. 8, 9, 12. And this confident waiting upon God in trouble is commended ab opposito by the contrary disposition of wicked men, whom favours and mercies cannot perswade to learn righteousness, ver. 10, 11. She resolves to submit to Gods fatherly Government alone, and to renounce all other usurping and tyrannical Lords, who had exercised domination over her, in reregard of Gods judgements executed on them, and his mercies renued to his people, v. 13, 14, 15. She resolves to poure out her prayer unto God in the midst of all present troubles, acknowledging her own impotency, and the miscarriage of all her own carnal counsels and contrivances, and thereupon trusting no longer in her self, but in God which raiseth the dead, ver. 16, 17, 18, 19. Lastly, after all these pious dispositions and noble resolves, she concludeth her song with a triumphal Epinicion ⟨p. 3⟩and insultation over all her enemies, and with an assurance that as they should die and not live, fall and not rise, their persons and their memories should perish, ver. 14. so she should live, and rise and sing, and flourish, as the herbs buried in the Earth, when the dew of Heaven falls on them to refresh them, ver. 19.
