John Trapp on Psalms 54:1

PSAL. LIV.

MAſchil] Inſtructing us, ſaith One, to draw neer to God, as dangers draw neerer to us,

When the Ziphims] Which ſignifieth Flouriſhing; Erant autem Ziphaei ex ſtirpe Caleb. 1. Chron. 2. [illegible: 2 letters] & Nabal, ſed degeneres, they might have flouriſhing eſtates, but they had withered ſouls; elſe they would never have ſought twice over to have betrayed good David into the hand of Saul, 1 Sam 23. & 26.

Came and ſaid to Saul] If a Ruler hearken to lyes, all his ſervants are wicked, Prov. 29.12. See the Note there.

Doth not David hide himſelf with us?] viz. In the wood and wilderneſſe neer unto our City? But what if he did, ſhould they therefore diſcover him, and ſo pull the vengeance of God upon themſelves and their City? George Eagles (alius Trudgeover the World) hid himſelf in a corn-field,Act. & Mon. was deſcryed by Ralph Lurdain for mony, and burnt at Chelmsford; where afterward the ſame Lurdain was hanged for ſtealing an horſe; and confeſt it was juſt in God upon him, for bewraying that innocent man.

Verſ. 1. Save mee, O God, by thy name] i. e: By thy ſelf, and eſpecially by thy goodneſs, whereby thou art nominatiſſimus in Eccleſia, well known in thy Church, as a main peece of thy name, Exod. 34.6, 7.