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Psalms 101

1 David describeth what government he will observe in his house and kingdom 5 He will punish and correct, by rooting forth the wicked, 6 And cherishing the godlie persons.
A psalme of David.
1.I will asing mercie and judgement: unto thee, ô Lord, wil I sing.
2.I will do wisely in the perfite waie btil thou comest to me: I will walk in the uprightness of mine heart in the middes of mine house.
3.I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate cthe work of them that fall away: it shall not cleave unto me.
4.A forward heart shal depart from me: I wil know none evil.
5.Him, that prively dsclandereth his neighbour, wil I destroy: him that hath a proud look and high heart, I can not suffer.
6.Mine eies shalbe unto the efaithful of the land, that they maie dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfite waie, he shal serve me.
7.There shal no deceitful person dwell within mine house: he that telleth lies, shal not remain in my sight.
8.fBetimes wil I destroy all the wicked of the land, that I maie cut off all the workers of iniquity from the City of the Lord.

Notes

1-a.
David considers what manner of King he would be, when God should place him in the throne, promising openly, that he would be merciful and just.
1-b.
He declares that in our prayer we must lively feel that, which we desire and steadfastly believe to obtain.
2-b.
Though as yet you defer to place me in the kingly dignity, yet will I give myself to wisdom and uprightness being a private man.
3-c.
He shows that magistrates do not their duties, except they be enemies to all vice.
3-c-1.
These excessive kinds of speech show how much the affliction of the Church ought to wound the hearts of the godly.
4-d.
My sorrows were so great, that I passed not for my ordinary food.
5-d.
In promising to punish these vices, which are most pernicious in them that are about Kings, he declares that he will punish all.
6-e.
He shows what is the true use of the sword: to punish the wicked and to maintain the good.
6-e-1.
Ever mourning, and solitary, casting out fearful cries.
8-f.
Magistrates must immediately punish vice, lest it grow to farther inconvenience and if heathen Magistrates are bound to do this, how much more they that have the charge of the Church of God? a Whereby is signified, that albeit we be in never so great miseries, yet there is ever place left for prayer.
8-f-1.
Have conspired my death.
9-g.
I have not risen out of my mourning to take my refection.
10-h.
He shows that the afflictions did not only thus move him, but chiefly the feeling of God’s displeasure.
12-i.
Howsoever we be frail: yet your promise is sure & the remembrance thereof shall confirm us forever.
13-k.
That is, the seventy years, which by the prophet Jeremiah you did appoint, Jer. 29.10.
14-l.
The more that the Church is in misery and desolation, the more ought the faithful to love and pity it.
16-m.
That is, when he shall have drawn his Church out of the darkness of death.
18-n.
The deliverance of the Church is a most excellent benefit and therefore he compares it to a new creation: for in their banishment the body of the Church seemed to have been dead, which by deliverance was as it were created anew.
20-o.
Who now in their banishment could look for nothing but death.
22-p.
He shows that God’s Name is never more praised, then when religion flourishes, and the Church increases: which thing is chiefly accomplished under the kingdom of Christ.
23-q.
The Church lament that they see not the time of Christ, which was promised, but have but few years and short days.
26-r.
If heaven and earth perish, much more man shall perish but the Church by reason of God’s promise endures forever.
28-s.
Seeing you have chosen your Church out of the world, and joined it to you, it can not but continue forever: for you are everlasting.