Preached upon the Penitentiall Psalmes

              preached upon the penitentiall Penitenti penitentially all psaltes psalmes Ps almes PSAL 32.7 327 327 THOU ART MY HIDING PLA PLACE CE THOU SHALT PRESERVE MEE FROM TROUBLE THOU SHALT COMPASSE ME ABOUT WITH SONGS OF deliverance A s rhetorique is said to bee a fist extended and displayed into an alj open hand and logique a hand recollected and con JL JL tracted bracted into a fist so the church of god may be said to be a soule dilated and diffused into many congregations and a soule may be said to be the church contracted and condensed into one bosome bonome so not onely the canticle of solomon is taken indifferently by the ancient and later expositors expository Exposi tors by some for an epithalamion and marriage song betweene betweene christ and his church by others for the celebration of the same union between every christian soule and him but also many other places of scripture have received such an indifferent interpretation and are left in suspence whether they be to be understood of the church in generall or of particular soules and of this nature and number is this text thou art my hiding place 6c &c ac for S hierom takes these words and the whole psalme psalmo to be spoken collectively others distributively he in the person of the church they of every or at least of some particular soules to ex- amine their reasons is unnecessary and would bee tedious it will aske lesse time and afford more profit to consider the words both wayes in them therefore considered twice over wee shall see a threefold state of the christian church and a threefold mercy ex- hibited by god to every christian soule first we shall see the church