Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and publike, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.

PSAL. 42. Title, To the chief Musitian, Maschil, for the sons of Corah.

A Psalm committed to the sons (i.) posterity of Corah, of whom it seems Heman was chief, for the third Classis, or Order of those Musitians, to whom the holy service belonged, 1 Chron. 25.5. All these were under the hand of the father; viz. Heman, who sung in the house of the Lord with Cymbals, Psalteries and Harps, &c. that it might not onely be kept, but sung by them in the tune beginning with the word Maschil, that both the fingers and hearers might be instructed in the matter thereof, ac∣cording to the signification of the word.

Some think the Psalm was made by the Sons of Corah, after his rebellion against Moses; to whom after their repen∣tance, &c. God gave the spirit of prophesie, whereby they made divers Psalms, whereof this was one, and therein foretold things to come of Christ, &c. which conceit Augustine mislikes, neither doth it agree with the matter of the Psalm; besides, the Hebrew letter Lamech, being prefixed to note the Dative case, shews it was made by David, for them to act by their musick, and not of them; and that David in his banishment, to shew

his grief and zeal for the House and Temple, and to quicken his faith and confidence in God for his comfort, made this Psalm for his own and the Churches instruction in the like calamity, and delivered it to Heman and his sons, to be used in the song.