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Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the ways of their heart,…Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the wayes of their heart,…
Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the ways of their heart, and in the sight of their eyes; but to remember the Day of Judgment. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, & preacher of the Gospel at Boston, in New-England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]Solemn advice to young men, not to walk in the wayes of their heart, and in the sight of their eyes; but to remember the Day of Judgment. / By Increase Mather, praesident of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, & preacher of the Gospel at Boston, in New-England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Bartholomew Green. Sold by Samuel Phillips, 1695
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE Title of the Psalm showeth that it was Written by David the Servant of the Lord. There are but two Psalms in which he is so Styled, and both of them were Written after his being Anointed King. ⟨p. 66⟩He •ad taken up an holy Resolution to Serve God in whatever Capacity he did sustain whether Private or Public. No man nor Creature is capable of an higher Advancement than to be accepted as Gods Servant▪ To be styled David the Servant of the Lord, is a greater honour, than to be styled David the King of Israel.
THE Title of the Psalm sheweth that it was Written by David the Servant of the Lord. There are but two Psalmes in which he is so Stiled, and both of them were Written after his being Anointed King. ⟨p. 66⟩He •ad taken up an holy Resolution to Serve God in whatever Capacity he did sustain whether Private or Publick. No man nor Creature is capable of an higher Advancement than to be accepted as Gods Servant▪ To be stiled David the Servant of the Lord, is a greater honour, than to be stiled David the King of Israel.
As for the Time when this portion of Scripture was Penned, that is not particularly expressed. A Judicious Expositor ha's Conjectured that David wrote it when Abiather came to him, and acquainted him with what Saul had done in Murdering A•imeleck, and all the Priests at Nob. Hence a wicked man is described and characterised from the Example of Saul, in the first […] of this Psalm: The Transgression of the Wicked saith within my heart, there is no fear of God before his Eyes: He seems to intimate that once he had too great a Charity for Saul, supposing that he might sin out of Infirmity, Melancholy, or Passion, rather than out of Malice; but now he was convinced in his Heart and Conscience, that Saul was a very wicked man: That he was wholly destitute of the […] fear of God; his Murdering the Priests of the Lord was an evidence of it. Such actions were done by