Section 85
pp. 441–4422 passages
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Vers. 85. The proud have digged pits for me, which is not after thy law.
Vers. 85. The proude haue digged pits for me, which is not after thy law.
This showed first that he prayed against their evil cause: secondly, that he suffered unjustly: first, because he suffered for the truth: secondly, because he behaved himself godly in his cause, not using unlawful means. And we must look that we have these things before we pray this prayer: first, that our cause be good: secondly, that it be rightly handled: therefore heretics and wicked men cannot make this prayer. David was long in this trouble, and yet he provoked them not with evil words, but laboured to overcome their ⟨p. 442⟩evil with goodness, as