John Trapp on Psalms 72:17-18

Verſ. 17. [illegible: 1 span] for ever] i. e. His Kingdom, for it ſhall not bee nomen inane. Other Kingdoms have their times, and their turns, their riſe, and their ruines; not ſo Chriſts, and this is great comfort.

His name ſhall be continued] Fil[illegible: 4 letters] nomini [illegible: 1 word] it ſhall be begotten as one Generation is begotten of another. Heb. His name ſhall be childed; that is, ſo continued as Families are continued; there ſhall bee a conſtant ſucceſſion of Chriſts Name to the end of the World there will ſtill be Chriſtians who are his Children. Heb. 2.13, 14. The old Hebrews tell us, that J[illegible: 1 letter]nn[illegible: 1 letter]n (the Hebrew word [illegible: 1 letter]ere uſed) is one of Chriſts Names:

And men ſhall be bleſſed in him] Or, they ſhall bleſs themſelves in him, viz. in Salomon, but eſpecially in Chriſt of whom Salomon was but a ſhadow.

All Nations ſhall call him bleſſed] If all Generations ſhall call the Mother of Chriſt bleſſed, Luke 3.48. how much were Chriſt himſelf:

Verſ.Sunt verba leribae, ut hodit, Aben-Ezra, ex R. Jehudah. 18. Bleſſed be the Lord God] [illegible: 1 span], theſe are the words of the Pſalmiſt ſay the Rabines, bleſſing God, who had given Le[illegible: 2 letters]gneph church, ſtrength to him fainting to finiſh the Second Book of the Pſalms as he had done the Firſst or rather praiſing God for all the [illegible: 1 span] the Lord Chriſt.