I have written.
The Prophet doth not say, he hath written; but he brings in God, saying I have written. And that first upon these two reasons.
First, To put the greater emphasis upon it, for it is more for God himself to come and say, I have written; as if a Father or Master say to his Child or Servant, I com∣mand you to do such a thing, it is more than if a Brother or fellow-Servant should say, my Father hath bidden, or my Master hath bidden you to do such a thing.
Secondly, Whosoever were the Pen-men of the Word, it is I that write it, I take it upon my self. The Word is so much his that God claims not only the truths that are in the Word, but the very ordering for the words; and in 2 Pet. 1. 21. it is said of holy men, they spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost: they were carried on with a kind of violence as the word signifies, and not only moved, but carried on with a kind of violence to write what they did, both in their speaking and in their writing, I have written.
And I have written to him the great things of my Law.
From this manner of Phrase, first we are to note this,
That we should look upon the Scripture as concerning our selves. Here's a letter written to you, and you, and you, every man and woman, therefore it is in the singular number, every man & woman must look upon the Scripture as writ∣ten to him, or her particularly; God writes to thee, he hath written a letter to thee that thou shouldest not commit A∣dultry, nor swear, nor steal, and that thou shouldest keep the Sabbath, and that thou shouldest not lye, and that thou shouldest reverence him, and love him, and fear him, and all such kind of rules that God from Heaven hath written to thee, and it is a mervailous help to obedience