Psalms 147

Psalms 147:2

out-casts] Deut. XXX. 4.

Psalms 147:4

telleth the number] Esay XL. 26. though to man they are innumerable, Ier. XXXIII. 22. at least in common opinion, and of him indeed cannot be all seene. The number of the stars is counted by ancient Astronomers; And all within, and without their several Constellations, in their several magnitudes, are reduced by all, much under the number of two thousand. Yet their number, in Scripturephrase, is marshaled with the sands of the sea, as innumerable. Which is spoken according to vulgar opinions and apprehensions; as that of the Sunne, and Moone Gen. I 16.

And divers other things are in Scripture in like sort spoken of. And yet the innumerable multitude of them appears the more, in our times; Wherein Galileus, and others after him by their new instruments and Tubi Optici, have made such strange discoveries of many many numbers of them, never seene before.

Psalms 147:9

young ravens] Iob XXXVIII. 41. Psal. CIV. 27, 28. Matth. VI. 26.

Psalms 147:14

fat of wheat] Psal. LXXXI. 16. Deut. XXXII. 14.

Psalms 147:15

runneth] Psal. XXXIII. 9.

Psalms 147:16

snow like wooll] accordingly the phrase is, fleeces of snow.

Psalms 147:17

his yce like morsels] Frost, or frozen hailstones.

Psalms 147:19

his word unto Jacob] This is singular mercie, and peculiar to his Church: farre beyond all those formerly mentioned: for which his Church is so bound to praise him.