Christopher Love

“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” [Psalm 42:11]

Although the Book of Psalms is compiled into one volume, and called Acts 1:20 The book of Psalms; in the Hebrew there are five book of Psalms (they are divided into five books).

• The first book of Psalms, according to the Hebrew, is from the  first Psalm to the end of Psalm 41, and it is concluded with Amen and Amen.

• Secondly, the Hebrew does account the Second book of Psalms to begin at Psalm 42 unto Psalm 72, and that you find also to conclude with Amen and Amen and the end of David’s prayers.

• The third book of Psalms begins does begin at the end of Psalm 72 to Psalm 89, and there you find it does conclude with Amen and Amen.

• The fourth book of Psalms you have its beginning from Psalm 89 unto Psalm 106, and there also it concludes with Amen and Amen.

• The fifth, or last book of Psalms, is from Psalm 106 to 150, the last Psalm in the book of Psalms, and this is ended with Halleluiah.

My text falls under that Psalm that begins the second book and interpreters do differ much about the occasion this Psalm was penned upon. Generally, interpreters agree in this, that it was penned by David, either when he was fleeing before Saul, for then, David was sore troubled, and driven from his house and habitation, and was by reason of his enemies driven, from the Worship of God (from the place of God’s public Worship) and was forced to hide himself in dens and caves of the earth. Now in that sad condition that he was in, it may be supposed he made this Psalm; or else it was made  when he was forced to flee for his life before his son Absalom, when he was in danger of his life during one of these times do interpreters conceive it was when David made this Psalm, and most do agree that it was made when  David was deprived of the  public Worship if God.

From Christopher Love’s The Dejected souls cure. 

The text has been updated to modern language and where the text is not clearly discernible to read,  the most approrpiate and obvious rendition of the authors intended meaning, substutited.

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Again this is the start of a series, owing to me wanting to get something involving the Psalms at this site. The opening of the Epistle Dedicatory to the reader, the book was published posthumously.

THE
DEJECTED
SOULES
CURE

To which is added,
I. The Ministry of the Angels to the Heirs of Salvation.
I I. Gods omniprefince.

 
To the Reader.-    ..

Christian Reader,
– THou art defired to.take notice •
that the end of this our Epistleatory Preface, is not tostrew the flower of our praisess upon. -: our deceafed brother , whose prase is in all the churches of Christ. Nay, his works praise him – in the gates. To say no more of him then Christ doth of Lazarus Luke 16:22 .tbe poor , man died , and was carried by Angels into Abrahams bosom,  but there is this double end in it;

1.    To assure thee, that these seventeen Sermons on Psalm 42. and the four following on Heb. i. alt.  are thouggh a posthumus, yet a legitimate issue, they all having been diligently compared, and re-vised by Mr .Loves own Notes, except the two last 1 on Psalm  42. the Notes of which could not be found; yet the very contexture of them shews, they are a thread of the fame (pinning. This we thought good to inform thee of, because forged and suppotitious  pieces have in all ages, in all Sciences, been obtruded upon the world, under f the name of persons of any worth, or eminency.

2.     Nay, Jerome tels us that divers Apocryphal books
‘. were vented under the names of the Apostles themselves :’ The same principles of .pride. and avarice are_ busy in such impostures at this day.
Thefes Sermons we publish , and justify for his.    :!
They were calculated by him i for the Pulpit 5 – - -    .
had he -lived to publish them , ,.
qquestion but they had been more polite. -But because we would publish nothing but • what is purely his we have therefore sent them abroad they were ‘left by him , without the addition of     any considerable sentence more then what was in
his own Notes; That thou  mayest  Conclude, thou has him (peaking in thefe Treatifes and nobody else.  What ever mistakes or literal faults tliat  th’OU
may  find, impute that either to oversight of the corrector ,or the Printer; and if thou has  not a  measure of knowledge to amend them,. Exercise so
Much  charity as to cover them : For censorious critics, me care not at all to satisfy them.

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