A brief commentary upon the CIII Psalme with the severall axiomes or doctrines therein conteined [sic], and uses thereupon inferred.
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A brief commentary upon the CIII Psalme with the severall axiomes or doctrines therein conteined [sic], and uses thereupon inferred.
Author
Sterne, Richard, 1596?-1683.
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London :: Printed by M.F. for Timothy Garthwaite,
1649.
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Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms CIII -- Commentaries.
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"A brief commentary upon the CIII Psalme with the severall axiomes or doctrines therein conteined [sic], and uses thereupon inferred." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61468.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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3 Doctrine. David saith againe, Blesse the LORD O my soule.
David having exhorted others to blesse God by the example of the Angels, and by arguments taken from the inferiour creatures, concludes the Psalme, as he began it, with exciting his own soule to doe the same. But of this, for the substance, vers. 1. Doctr. 1. and for the iteration of it, vers. 2. Doctr. 1.
Uses.
Here therefore in a word, they who exhort others to any good, are to be exhorted that themselves be not slothfull and negligent in it, but shew example of alacrity and readi∣nesse unto those whom they exhort.
Moreover these words joined to the pre∣cedent exhortation, may seeme to have the same sense with those Jos. 24.14, 15. And
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so they, who exhort others to a common du∣ty, may be exhorted, that whatsoever effect their exhortation obteines with others, yet themselves would constantly goe on in per∣formance of their own duty.