A Song of Loves. Some fuppofe that this Pfalm was first Indited upon Solomon's marrying Pharaoh's Daughter, which was a Type of the Efpoufals betwixt Chrift and bus Church. Others effert, That the Pfalmist bud regard to no other Perfon but Chrift, and his Church only, in compofing it. However, 'tis certain, that no one can apply it by way of Devotion to any but Chrift and his Church; and therefore in my Notes I fhall take notice of no other fenfe.

· Eru&avit cor meum.

[My Thoughts are engaged in a Subject that is full of good Matter; and I will addrefs my felf to the great King, the Meffias, pofed.]

2 [* My Tongue fhall be

Pfal. XLV.

[MY heart is inditing of a

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of the things which I have made good matter: I speak unto the King.]

and rehearse to him what I have com

2. [* My tongue is the pen : like the Pen of one that of a ready writer.]

takes Minutes or writes Short hand: for I fhall fpeak very briefly, and not in words at length, or fo as to be understood in a literal fence, but in Figures and Emblems.] 3 [Thy Speech most excellent, infomuch that it fhall be faid of thee, Never Man fpake like this Man.] 4 [Appear with the Enfigns of thy Power, moft mighty Prince, with Majefty and Splen dor, like thy felf.] 5 [May thine Honour profper with thee, go on triumphantly for the furtherance and promoting of Honefty, Humility, Juftice: And thy divine Power fhall enable thee to do miraculous

3 Thou art fairer than the children of men: [full of grace are thy lips,] because God hath bleffed thee for ever.

4 [Gird thee with thy fword upon thy thigh, O thou moft mighty: according to thy worfhip and renown.]

5 [Good luck have thou with thine honour: ride on because of the word of truth, of meeknefs and righteoufnefs, and thy right hand fhall teach thee terrible things.]

and amazing things, Luk. iv. 36.v.26.] 6 [Thy arrows are very fharp, pierce like Arrows, thou and the people fhall be fubdued

Thy words shall

unto

unto thee: even in the midft fhalt make Converts, among the kings enemies.] where one would leaft of all hope for it, from amongst thy greatest and most inveterate Enemies, from amongst the chief Rulers of the Jews, John xii.42. the Court of the Roman Emperor, and the Areopagus, Als xvii.34.] 7 [Thy *feat, O God, endureth for ever: the fcepter of thy kingdom is a right fcepter.]

*

7 Seat,] that is,

Throne.

[There fhall be no end of thy Kingdom, O

thou Meffias, who art God as well as Man: Thy Government shall be adminiftred by Laws moft juft and reasonable.] See Heb. i. 8. 8 Thou haft loved righteoufness and hated iniquity :

*

8 The Oyl of Gladnefs; that is, the Holy

Alts x. 38.
*Above thy Fellows
All Kings, Priefts, or
of God.

wherefore God, even thy God, Spirit and Royal Power, hathanointed thee with the *oyl of gladness* above thy fellows. Prophets, all that are called Gods, or Sons 9 [All thy garments smell of Myrrh, Aloes, and Caffia: out of the ivory palaces, whereby *they have made thee glad.] fall receive you,] Luke xvi. 9. fignifies no more than you shall be received.] Ham.

9 They have made thee glad, is an ufual Hebrailm fignifying, thou art made glad, or rejoyced; as, [they

[All thofe Divine Graces wherewith thou art clothed and adorned, and which thou broughteft with thee from Heaven, the place with which thou art so much delighted, and of which the most noble Palaces of Kings, lined with Ivory, Kings X. 28. are but faint refemblances, fhall be more grateful than the most delicious Perfumes of Myrrh, Exod. xxx. 23. Lignum Aloes, Numb. xxiv. 6, and Caffia, Exod. XXX. 24,

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10 Kings daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did ftand the Queen in a vefture of gold, wrought about with divers colours.

10 By Kings Daugh ters] is meant either large Royal Cities. See Pfal. ix. 14. or elfe Perfons of the greatest worldly Rank as Dr. Ham. fuppofes.) Both these Senfes fit the

words; and they have in both fenfes been verified of Jefus Chrift, who has had great Numbers of the moft confiderable Cities and Perfons in the World actually devoted to his Service, and devoutly attending his Worship.

By the Queen in a Vefture of Gold] is meant the Church his Spouse, moft royally adorned.

Here it is to be noted, that the Church called [the Queen] is

diftinguish'd from the Converts, [the Kings Daughters ;] for that Remnant of the Jews which own'd Chrift Jefus, are reprefented by St. Paul, Rom. xi. to be the Tree or Root, ver. 17, 18. the Heathen-Converts are but Ciens, or Branches grafted into the true Olive-Tree, or Church, Rom. II. 17, 18, 19.

II [And now, O Royal Bride, confider that being betrothed to the best of Spouses, thou muft lay afide all fondness to the Jewish People, to whom thou

didit formerly belong: Nor value thy felf too much for thy natural Defcent from thy Father

II [Hearken, O daughter, and confider, incline thine ear: forget alfo thine own people, and thy fathers house.]

f2 So fhall the king have pleasure in thy beauty: for he is thy Lord God, and worship thou him.

Abraham; but renounce every thing

that is dearest to thee in this World, out of Love to thy Lord and

Bridegroom.]

13 [Tyrians, and many other rich and potent People, fhall own thy Power, and addrefs themselves to thee with Prefents, the Prefents

13 [And the daughter of Tyre fhall be there with a gift: like as the rich alfo among the people fhall make their fupplication before thee.]

or Sacrifice of their whole Selves, Souls, and Bodies, and pay their Devotion to thee, O Messias.]

Mem. There were many and early Converts in Tyre, Mark iii.8. vii. 24. As xxi. 3, 4, 5.

14 [The chief Orna

ments of the Church

14 [The Kings daughter is

are the inward Endow- all glorious within: her clothing ments of the Mind, but is of wrought gold.]

there fhall be nothing wanting as to her external Magnificence and Accomplishments.]

15*The Virgins; The Heathen Cities and People converted to the Faith. See ver. 10.

16 The Kings Pa

Lace] denotes the place of publick Worship. The Hebrew word [He

15 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle-work: * the virgins that be her fellows fhall bear her company, and fhall be brought unto thee.

16 With joy and gladness fhall they be brought: and fhall enter into the Kings palace.

cal is often turn'd Temple in other places, and by fome in this Text. The ancient Chriftians called their Churches or Temples Bafilice, that is, Royal Palaces.

17 [In ftead of thy fathers thou fhalt have children: whom thou mayeft make princes in all lands.]

17 [In lieu of thy Fathers, the Patriarchs,

of whom thou useft to

boaft, thou shalt have

Converts from among

the Gentiles, called Sons and Daughters, Ifai. Ix. 4.) many of which fhall be Kings and Princes in all parts of the World.]

Note, That this 17th Verse was never fulfilled in any fense by the Sons of Pharaoh's Daughter. Rehoboam could scarce retain two of the Tribes of Ifrael in fubjection; and even he was not the Son of Pharaoh's Daughter. See 1 Kings xiv. 21. So likewife the 7th and 12th Verfes cannot be applied to any bur Christ, in a plain and obvious sense. They who understand them of Solomon are obliged to use fome Art, and to depart from the natural meaning of the words.

18 I will remember thy Name from one generation to another therefore fhall the people give thanks unto thee, *world without end.

18 This Verfe cannot be better under

food, than by taking it as the Voice of the Church to Chrift.

* World; that is, Age or Time. See Vocab.

This Pfalm is thought to have been compofed by David, after thofe great Victories mentioned 2 Sam. viii. Deus nofter refugium. Pfal. XLVI.

G

OD is our hope and I ftrength: a very prefent help in trouble.

2 Therefore will we not fear though the earth be moved: and though the hills be carried into the midst of the fea.

3 Though the waters thereof rage and fwell: and though the mountains shake at the tempeft of the fame.

2 By Storms and Earthquakes, here we

are to understand that

Ruine and Confufion
which is caused by the
Invafion of Foreign
Enemies. See ver. 6.

4 The streams of from fuch an EarthWater that proceed quake and Tempeft, thall be fo far from do

4 [The rivers of the flood thereof fhall make glad the city of God: the holy place of the tabernacle of the moft Higheft.] ing any damage to Zion, the City, and Dwelling-place of God, that they fhall, on the contrary, only give the Inhabitants thereof an occafion of Joy and Thankígiving for their Deliverance.]

1

6 [The Inhabitants of Foreign Countries fhall diffolve, and melt like Wax before the

Fire.

8. The Heathen Nations that threatned us with ruine.

9 *Chariots were of old much used in War, Jof. xvii. 16, &c.

5 God is in the midst of her, therefore fhall fhe not be removed: God fhall help her, and that right early.

6 The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved: but God hath fhewed his voice, and [the earth fhalt melt away.]

7 The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge.

8 O come hither, and behold the works of the Lord: what deftruction he hath brought upon [the earth.]

9 He maketh wars to cease in all the world: he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the fpear in funder, and burneth the chariots in the fire.

10 Be ftill then, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth.

II The Lord of hofts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge.

Evening Prayer.

This Pfalm feems to have been used at the carrying the
Ark up to Sion, 2 Sam. vi. which was a Type of our
Saviour's Afcenfion into Heaven.

Omnes gentes, plaudite. Pfal. XLVII.

Clap your hands together, ye people: Ofing unto God with the voice of melody.