§ 6. IT is a true Observation, which is made by Folengius, in his Commentaries on the PSALMS; Totius Voluminis PSALMORUM Argumentum CHRISTUS: A Glorious CHRIST is the principal Thing appearing in them. It is very certain, That in the PSALMS, the Person, the Natures, the Virtues, the Humiliation, the Exaltation, the Extensive Kingdom, and the admirable Glories ⟨p. xiv⟩of the MESSIAH, are every where scattered and glittering, after such a manner, as calls for our Wonderment. The Gospel according to DAVID, compared with, The Gospel according to MATTHEW, affords a wonderful Entertainment. If a Jew would but believe the Songs of Zion, which once were sung in his own Land, he would soon turn a Christian, and would his Nation do so, it would not be long, that they should be put upon Singing them in a Strange Land. Christian, Dig in these Mines, and thou wilt soon be sensible of what thy SAVIOUR has told thee, Search the Scriptures, for they testify of me. Yea, Good Old Hilary has a Note, That the Book of PSALMS is a Bundle of Keys, which will open the Locks of all the other Scriptures. The Word, Mictam, is found in the Titles of several PSALMS; and Monsieur Gousset's Discourse upon it, has very much to demand a Reception for it. The Word signifies, A Thing that is covered with Gold. But another Word of the same Letters, does also signify, A Sanctified Thing. Our Great SAVIOUR, and His Works, are variously Exhibited, in the Types, and so in the Songs, of the Old Testament. The sense which concerns the Types, is a piece of Canvas, on which the Holy Spirit has inlaid the Mystical sense, which concerns our SAVIOUR, as a Golden Embroidery. ⟨p. xv⟩If David be the Canvas, in any of the Mictams, the Holy Spirit has inwrought a Golden Idea of our SAVIOUR into it, and curiously Embroidered it, with some of His Incomparable Glories. Verily, There are more Mictam's in our Psalter, than those which have this Term in the Titles of them. They are not the only ones, that have His Unutterable Glories Exquisitely Embroidered in them. The German Divine, who wrote a Treatise, to prove, That there is not a Chapter in the Bible, wherein there is not a mention or a notice of our SAVIOUR, might find the Psalter to be the easiest part of the Bible for him to work upon. And now, when we discover our SAVIOUR in the PSALMS, we then have indeed the Quickening Spirit of them.
§ 6. IT is a true Observation, which is made by Folengius, in his Commentaries on the PSALMS; Totius Voluminis PSALMORUM Argumentum CHRISTƲS: A Glorious CHRIST is the principal Thing appearing in them. It is very certain, That in the PSALMS, the Person, the Natures, the Vertues, the Humiliation, the Exaltation, the Extensive Kingdom, and the admirable Glories ⟨p. xiv⟩of the MESSIAH, are every where scattered and glittering, after such a manner, as calls for our Wonderment. The Gospel according to DAVID, compared with, The Gospel according to MATTHEW, affords a wonderful Entertainment. If a Jew would but believe the Songs of Zion, which once were sung in his own Land, he would soon turn a Christian, and would his Nation do so, it would not be long, that they should be put upon Singing them in a Strange Land. Christian, Dig in these Mines, and thou wilt soon be sensible of what thy SAVIOUR has told thee, Search the Scriptures, for they testify of me. Yea, Good Old Hilary has a Note, That the Book of PSALMS is a Bundle of Keys, which will open the Locks of all the other Scriptures. The Word, Mictam, is found in the Titles of several PSALMS; and Monsieur Goussets Discourse upon it, has very much to demand a Reception for it. The Word signifies, A Thing that is covered with Gold. But another Word of the same Letters, does also signify, A Sanctified Thing. Our Great SAVIOUR, and His Works, are variously Exhibited, in the Types, and so in the Songs, of the Old Testament. The sense which concerns the Types, is a piece of Canvas, on which the Holy Spirit has inlaid the Mystical sense, which concerns our SAVIOUR, as a Golden Embroidery. ⟨p. xv⟩If David be the Canvas, in any of the Mictams, the Holy Spirit has inwrought a Golden Idea of our SAVIOUR into it, and curiously Embroidered it, with some of His Incomparable Glories. Verily, There are more Mictam's in our Psalter, than those which have this Term in the Titles of them. They are not the only ones, that have His Unutterable Glories Exquisitely Embroidered in them. The German Divine, who wrote a Treatise, to prove, That there is not a Chapter in the Bible, wherein there is not a mention or a notice of our SAVIOUR, might find the Psalter to be the easiest part of the Bible for him to work upon. And now, when we discover our SAVIOUR in the PSALMS, we then have indeed the Quickening Spirit of them.
