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HOw bluntly and abruptly doth the seventy third Psalm begin? Truly God is good unto Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
Truly is a Term of continuation, not inception of a Speech. The Head or Top of this Psalm seems lost or cut off, and the Neck only remaining in the room thereof.
But know, that this Psalm hath two Moyeties; one Vnwritten, made only in the Tyring-house of David's heart. The other Written, visible on the Theatre, beginning as is afore∣said.
Thomas Aquinas sitting silent in a musing posture at the Table of the King of France, at last brake forth in∣to these words, Conclusum est con∣tra Manichaeos, It is concluded against the Manichees; which speech though Non-sense to the persons in the place, at the best Independent without any connexion to the discourse at Table, had it's necessary Coherence in the mind of that great Schoolman.
David newly awaking in this Psalm out of the sweet slumber of his Medi∣tation, openeth his eyes with the good hand-sell of these words; Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. A Maxim of undoubted Truth, and a firm Anchor to those who have been tossed in the Tempest of these times.