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John Trapp on Psalms 146:8

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Psalms146:8

Verſ. 8 The Lord openeth the eyes] Both of body and mind, as in the Goſpell. As for thoſe miracles which Facitus and Suctonius attribute to Veſpaſian (as that he made a blind man ſee with ſpittle, healed another that was lame, and another that had a drye hand, by treading upon it) they are the miracles of Chriſt, which thoſe prophane Authors would caſt upon their Emperour. Tacitus writeth that the blind man ſaid to Veſpaſian, that the god Serapis ſent him to him. Now the Paynims did think that the Chriſtians did worſhip Serapis, as appeareth by the Epiſtle of Adrian the Emperour to Severianus the Conſul, that in the Town of Alexandria, they that worſhipped Serapis were Chriſtians, &c.

The Lord raiſeth, &c.] As hee did that Daughter of Abraham in the Goſpel, whom Satan had bound and bowed down twelve years, Luk. 13.16. and as hee doth ſtill, Iſa. 61.1.

The Lord loveth the Righteous] And this is more than all the reſt. God diſpenſeth outward bleſſings, but not alwayes in love.

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