The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.

§. 5.

The entrance, as Dauid saith, into the Word of the Lord, sheweth light: and gi∣ueth vnderstanding vnto the simple.

For, it is * prooued to bee most pure. It is * the wel-spring of wisedome. And the * beginning of it is truth.

The Lawe of thy mouth, ô Lord, sayth hee, is better vnto mee then thousandes of golde and siluer. By thy precepts haue I gotten vnderstanding.

And, by thy cōmaundements, thou hast made me wiser then mine enemies.

Therefore loue I thy commaundements aboue gold: yea, aboue most fine gold.

I reioyce [also] at thy Word, as one that findeth a great spoyle.

And, my soule (ô Lorde) hath kept thy testimonies; for, I loue them exceedingly.

Notes

• Psalm 119. 130.
• Ps. 119, 140. Ecclus. 1. 5, Ps. 119, 160 Psalm. 119, 72, 104,
• Psa. 119, 98
• Psalm, 119 127,
• Psalm, 119. 162.
• Psalm, 119. 167.