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THE violence of Saul and •…•…nuy of his courtiers had bred vnto Dauid trouble and danger. This trouble and danger had affrigh∣ted his mind, so that trembling feare and horror oppressed his heart, as ap∣peareth in the first eight verses of this Psalme.
His trembling feare and horror made him •…•…e vnto God, before whom he complaineth of the most perfidious
falsehood of his enemies; and at the hands of God he craueth (in iustice) their death and destruction. This appea∣reth in the next seauen verses of the Psalme.
By this time his mind is somewhat calmed, hauing vented his griefe into the bosome of God, and therfore from the beginning of the sixteenth verse he speketh in another temper, partly pro∣fessing his owne comfort, and faith (whereto euen the falshood of his ene∣mies, detestable before God, gaue some strength) and partly instructing others how, in like assault of trouble, they may grow vnto like comfort.
He professeth his owne recouered comfort in all these verses, beginning with the sixteenth, to the end of the Psalme (my text excepted) and he in∣structeth others in my text.
Those whom he instructeth are such as himselfe lately was, namely men o∣uercharged with some heauy burthen.
The instruction that he giueth them is the same that he followed himselfe when he was burdened, namely, by faith and praier to turne the burden
vpon the shoulders of God; in these words, Cast thy burden vpon the Lord.
The successe that he promiseth them (obseruing his instruction) is the same that he found himselfe, namely reliefe helpe and deliuerance from God in these words, And he shal nourish thee: he wil not suffer the righteous to fal for euer.
Some profitable obseruations may be drawen from the persons, instru∣cting and instructed: and some from the instruction it selfe. These things shall be handled in order.
The con∣text.
What is in the text