Soldiers counselled and comforted. A discourse delivered unto some part of the forces engaged…Souldiers counselled and comforted. A discourse delivered unto some part of the forces engaged…

First, the Affliction of a great Soldier. 'Tis, my soul is continually in my Hand. By the Soul may be meant the Life, which does consist in a Vital Union between the Soul and the Body. But how may this be said to be. In the Hand? I remember Austin upon this place, confesses, he could not conceive what the psalmist meant. But Jerome hits the Nail, by noting that it is an Hebraism, Quo significatur vitam habere periculo Expositam; signifying to go in Danger of ones Life. The Graecians have a Proverb, as well as the Hebrews to the same purpose; [Greek or Hebrew] He hath his Soul in his Hand. To put it out of Doubt, that this is the Intent of the Psalmist here, we find it elsewhere, that when the Life of this very person had been obnoxious to an extraordinary Danger, 'tis thus deciphered in 1 Sam. 19. 5. He did put his Life in his Hand. And hence the never enough Regarded and Commended French Translation, so renders the passage, we are now upon, Ma Vie a este continuellement en Hazard; my Life has been continually in Hazard. A Soldier must continually look to be Hazarding of his Life.

First, the Affliction of a great Souldier. 'Tis, my soul is continually in my Hand. By the Soul may be meant the Life, which does consist in a Vital Union between the Soul and the Body. But how may this be said to be. In the Hand? I remember Austin upon this place, confesses, he could not conceive what the psalmist meant. But Jerom hits the Nail, by noting that it is an Hebraism, Quo significatur vitam habere periculo Expositam; signifying to go in Danger of ones Life. The Graecians have a Proverb, as well as the Hebrews to the same purpose; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 He hath his Soul in his Hand. To put it out of Doubt, that this is the Intent of the Psalmist here, we find it elsewhere, that when the Life of this very person had been obnoxious to an extraordinary Danger, 'tis thus deciphered in 1 Sam. 19. 5. He did put his Life in his Hand. And hence the never enough Regarded and Commended French Translation, so renders the passage, we are now upon, Ma Vie a este continuellement en Hazard; my Life has been continually in Hazard. A Souldier must continually look to be Hazarding of his Life.