Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 19:9

9. The fear of the LORD is clean , enduring for ever : the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether u.

By which he understands not the Grace of God's fear, as this Phrase is commonly taken; nor the whole Worship of God, as it is taken, Psal. 34. 9. 11. Mat. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. 9. but the Law and Word of God, which is the only thing that is h[illegible: 1+ letters]re commended, and which is meant by all the other parallel Titles of his Testimony, and Statutes, and Commandements, and Iudgments, and consequently by this of his [illegible: 1+ letters]ear, which is as it were hemmed in within them. And this may well be so called by an usual Metonymy, because it is both the Object and the Rule, and the Cause of this Grace of holy Fear; as God himself is called Fear for the like reason, Gen. 31. 53. and in the Hebrew, Psal. 76. 11.

(i. e.) Sincere, not adulterated with any mixture of Vanity, or Falshood, or Vice, not requiring no[illegible: 1+ letters] allowing any uncleanness or wickedness, as the Religion of the Gentiles did.

Constant and unchangeable, the same for Substance in all the Ages of the Church and the World. Which is most true, both of the moral Law, and of the Doctrine of God's Grace and Mercy to sinful and miserable man; which two are the Principal part[illegible: 1+ letters] of that Law, of which he here speaks, as is Evident from the whole Context. For as the difference between the Old and the New Testament, that lyes only in Circumstantial and Ceremonial, or Ritual things, which are not here intended; and that Alteration also was foretol[illegible: 1+ letters] in the Old Testament, and consequently, the accomplishment of it did not destroy, but confirm the certainty and constancy of God's word. This also is opposed to humane Laws, wherein there are, and ought to be manifold Changes, according to the difference of Times and People and Circumstances.

(i. e.) God's Laws frequently called his Iudgments▪ because they are the Declarations of his righteous Will and as it were his legal o[illegible: 1+ letters] judicial Sentence by which he expects that men should govern themselves, and by which he will judge them at the last day.

Marginal references: Heb. truste