THESE words are part of a Sermon which was Preached by Paul an Antioch, wherein he demonstrates the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, by what is written in the 16th. Psalm, where it is said, thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see Corruption. That must needs be meant either of David himself or of the Messiah: But it cannot be so affirmed of David himself, for ha saw Corruption. Davids Body had been turned to Dust in the Grave for some Ages before that Time; therefore that passage in the Psalm must be meant of Christ, whose Holy Body did not lie long enough i• the Grave to see Corruption. This is the Apostles ⟨image ?⟩scope and design in the words before us, which are a Compe•dious History of the Life and Death of David. 1. We have his Life. It was a Life of Service to his own Generation, and that by the Will of God. The Greek word HUPERETESAS, here Translated he had Served, is a Metaphor taken from Rowers, who se•ve the Pilot in the safe passage of the Vessel. This World is a Sea, the Church is like a Ship tossed on the Sea, God is the Pilot, by whose Skill and Providence that Ship is Steered: He is pleased to make use of men as Under-Rowers to Serve his Providence. Whereas David is here said to Serve his own Generation; That Expression may imply two things. (1.) That he Served the People who Lived in the same Age in which he Lived; for in that sense is the word frequently used in the Scripture. No man can do Service for a Generation of men who were gone out of the World before he came into it. No• can any man do Service for those that shall come into the World, after he is gone out of it, excepting what he did whilst himself was here. (2.) A Generation is sometimes taken for the Age of one man, as well as for the men of one Age. Thus when 'tis said, David Served his own Generation, this is intended, sc. that as long as he Lived in the World, he continued to Serve those that were his Contemporaries. He Lived to be Seventy years old, and so long did he continue ⟨p. 5⟩a Servant of his Generation. Moreover, when it is affirmed, that He Served them by the Will of God, that may import: (1.) That he fulfilled the Decree of God in that his Service. He did all this Service which God from Eternity had willed that David should do.
THESE words are part of a Sermon which was Preached by Paul an Antioch, wherein he demonstrates the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, by what is written in the 16th. Psalm, where it is said, thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see Corruption. That must needs be meant either of David himself or of the Messiah: But it cannot be so affirmed of David himself, for ha saw Corruption. Davids Body had been turned to Dust in the Grave for some Ages before that Time; therefore that passage in the Psalm must be meant of Christ, whose Holy Body did not lie long enough i• the Grave to see Corruption. This is the Apostles ⟨image ?⟩scope and design in the words before us, which are a Compe•dious History of the Life and Death of David. 1. We have his Life. It was a Life of Service to his own Generation, and that by the Will of God. The Greek word HUPERETESAS, here Translated he had Served, is a Metaphor taken from Rowers, who se•ve the Pilot in the safe passage of the Vessel. This World is a Sea, the Church is like a Ship tossed on the Sea, God is the Pilot, by whose Skill and Providence that Ship is Steered: He is pleased to make use of men as Under-Rowers to Serve his Providence. Whereas David is here said to Serve his own Generation; That Expression may imply two things. (1.) That he Served the People who Lived in the same Age in which he Lived; for in that sense is the word frequently used in the Scripture. No man can do Service for a Generation of men who were gone out of the World before he came into it. No• can any man do Service for those that shall come into the World, after he is gone out of it, excepting what he did whilst himself was here. (2.) A Generation is sometimes taken for the Age of one man, as well as for the men of one Age. Thus when 'tis said, David Served his own Generation, this is intended, sc. that as long as he Lived in the World, he continued to Serve those that were his Contemporaries. He Lived to be Seventy years old, and so long did he continue ⟨p. 5⟩a Servant of his Generation. Moreover, when it is affirmed, that He Served them by the Will of God, that may import: (1.) That he fulfilled the Decree of God in that his Service. He did all ths Service which God from Eternity had willed that David should do.
