John Trapp on Psalms 65:5

Verſ. 5. By terrible things in righteouſneſs wilt thou anſwer us] As he did when he gave the Law in Mount Sinas, and ever after in his Oracles, and Ordinances. God loveth at once familiarity and fear; familiarity in our converſation, and fear in his Worſhips; he loves to be acquainted with men in the walks of their obedience; yet he taketh ſtate upon him in his Ordinances, and will bee trembled at in his Word and Judgements.

Who art the confidente of all the ends of the earth, &c.] i. e. of all thine Elect abroad the whole World.

Of them that are afarre off upon the Sea] The Iſlanders, Ut penitus toto disjuncti abs orbe Britanni.

Venice is ſaid to be ſituate ſix miles diſtant from any firm Land, and built in the heart of the Adriatick Sea, the waters whereof do flow into the City, and beat upon it, through all the ſtreets thereof. Now it may be hoped, that God hath many ſouls even in ſuch places;Spec. Europ. ſith there are thought to be no fewer than twenty thouſand Proteſtants in Civil it ſelf, a chief City of Spain. It was long ſince forepropheſied, that the Iſles ſhould wait for Gods Law, Iſa. 42.4. & 51.5. & 60.9.