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John Trapp on Psalms 116:11

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Psalms116:11

Verſ. 11. I ſaid in my haſte] in my heat, trepidation, concuſſion, out-burſt. Saints may have ſuch, as being but men, ſubject to like paſſions; and as meeting with many moleſtations, ſatanical and ſecular; and left ſometimes to themſelves by God, as was good Hezekiah, for their tryal and exerciſe. The Sea is not ſo calm in ſummer, but hath its commotions: the mountain ſo firm, but may bee moved with an Earth-quake. Doggs in a chafe bark ſometimes at their own maſters; So do men in their paſſions let fly at their beſt friends. When the taſte is vitiated, it miſtaſtes. When there is a ſuffuſion in the eye (as in caſe of the jawndiſe) it apprehends colours like it ſelf: So here. Abraham felt the motion of trepidation; meek Moſes was over-angry at Meribah; ſo was Job, Jonas, Jeremy, &c. Ira comes of Ire, ſay Grammarians: becauſe an angry man goes out of himſelf, off from his reaſon; and when pacified, hee is ſaid, redire ad ſe, to return to himſelf.

All men are Lyars] Prophets and all: Samuel hath deluded mee I doubt, in promiſing mee the Kingdome, which I ſhall never come to, ſee 1 Sam. 27.1. Some make the meaning to bee thus, what can I hope for, ſeeing every man betrayeth mee, and that I can truſt no body? The truth is, that every man is a lyar, either by impoſture, and ſo in purpoſe, or by impotency, and ſo in the event, deceiving thoſe that rely on him, Pſal. 62.9.

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