John Trapp on Psalms 7:1

PSAL. VII.

SHiggaion of David] i.e. Davids delight, or ſolace, ſay ſome: his mixt Song, or Synodee, ſay others.

Which he ſang unto the Lord] He could ſing away care, and puniſh his Reproachers with a merry contempt, as knowing his own innocency; the property whereof is to throw off ſlanders, as Paul did the Viper, yea in an holy ſcorning, it laughs at them, as the wilde Aſſe doth at the Horſe, and his Rider.

Concerning the words of Cuſh the Benjamite] which ſome take to be ſome Couſen and Courtier of Sauls, who had falſly accuſed good David (far from any ſuch thought, Pſal. 131.1.) of affecting the Kingdom, and ſeeking Sauls life. See 1 Sam. 24.10. But I rather underſtand with the Chaldee Paraphraſt, Sauls ſelf, who was of Kiſh, and of Jemini, 1 Sam. 9.1. and that by a diſguiſe of name; he is called Cuſh the Benjamite, that is an Aethiopian, becauſe of his obſtinate impenitency, according to Jer. 13.23. So Am. 9.7. Rebellious Iſrael is to God as Aethiopia. Profeſſors ſhall be as deep in Hell, and deeper than Turks and Infidels, becauſe of their diſſembled ſanctity, which is double iniquity, Wrath ſhall bee upon the Jew firſt, Rom. 2. and when the foul ſinner goes to Hell, what ſhall become of the fair Profeſſor? may ſuch be asked, as are both in one. In the Aethiopian is nothing white but his teeth: ſo in an Hypocrite, &c.

Verſ. 1. O Lord my God, in thee do I put my truſt] Or, I betake me to thee for ſafety. David found it always beſt to run to the old Rock, Iſa. 26.4. and to cry, O Lord my God, pleading the Covenant. This, no wicked man can do; but, being beaten out of earthly comforts, he is as a naked man in a ſtorm, and an unarm'd man in the field, or as a ſhip toſſed in the Sea without an Anchor, which preſently daſheth on the Rocks, or falleth upon the Quick-ſands. Saul for inſtance, who being in diſtreſs, and forſaken of God, ran firſt to the Witch, and then to the Swords point.

Save me from all them that perſecute me] Where the Prince is a Perſecutor (as in the Primitive times, and here in the Marian days) many will be very active againſt Gods people, O ſancta ſimplicitas, ſaid John Huſſe Martyr, when at the ſtake he obſerved a plain Country-fellow buſier than the reſt, in fetching Faggots.