John Trapp on Psalms 143:5

Verſ. 5 I remember the dayes of old] Wherein I was delivered from the Lion and the bear; yea from the hand of all mine enemies, and from the hand of Saul, Pſal. 18. title. More than this, Sacula antiquitus praeterita recolo, I run over, and ruminate all the ancient monuments of thy mercy to the Patriarches and others: ſith all that is written was written for our inſtruction, that wee through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope, Rom. 15.4. See Pſal. 77.4, 6.