Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 40:8

8. I delight to do thy will , O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart .

This though in a general Sence, it may be true of David and of all God's People, yet if it be Compared with the [illegible: 1+ letters] ing Verse, and with the Explication thereof in the Ne[illegible: 1+ letters] Testament, (in which those Mysteries which were darkly and doubtfully expressed in the Old Testement, are fully and clearly revealed) must be appropriated to Christ, of whom it is eminently true, and is here observed as an Act of Heroical obedience, that he not onely resolved to do, but delig[illegible: 1+ letters]ted in doing the Will of God, or what God had Commanded him, and he had promised to do, which was to dye, and that a most shameful and painful and Cursed Death. See Luk. 12. 50. Ioh. 10. 18. Heb. 10. 9, 10.

(i. e.) I do not onely hear and understand it, but I receive it with heartiest Love and Affection, delighting both to meditate of it, and to yield Obedience to it.

Marginal references: Psal. 119. 16. 24. 47. 92. Rom. 7. 22▪; Heb. in the midst of my Bowels.; Psal. 37. 31. Je[illegible: 1+ letters]. 31. 33.