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John Trapp on Psalms 139:18

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Psalms139:18

Verſ. 18 If I ſhould count them, &c.] q. d. They are: infinite and innumerable. Archimedes that great Mathematician bragged, that hee could number all the ſands in the habitable and inhabitable World, but no man ever beleeved him. See 1 Sam. 13.5. 2. Sam. 17.11. Pſal. 78.27.

When I awake, I am ſtill with thee] Still taken up with ſome holy contemplation of thy works, and wiſdome. Theſe thoughts I fall aſleep with, and theſe I awake with. As I take up my fire ore night, ſo I finde it in the morning.

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