GIVE Thy Ivdgements To The King, O GOD, And Thy Righteovsnes To The Kings Sonne.

These be the first words of one of the Psalmes of the Kingly Prophet Dauid, whereof the literall sense runnes vpon him, and his sonne Salomon, and the mysticall sense vpon God and Christ his eternall Sonne: but they are both so wouen together, as some parts are, and can onely bee properly applied vnto God and Christ, and other parts vnto Dauid and Salomon, as this Verse, Giue thy Iudgements to the King, O God, and thy Righteousnesse to the Kings Sonne, cannot be properly spoken of any, but of Dauid and his sonne; because it is said, Giue thy Iudgements, &c. Now God cannot giue to himselfe. In another part of the same Psalme, where it is said, that Righteousnes shall flourish, and abundance of Peace, as long as the Moone endureth, it signifieth eternitie, and cannot be properly applied but to God and Christ: But both senses, aswell literall as mysticall, serue to Kings for imitation, and especially to Christian Kings: for Kings sit in the Throne of God, and they themselues are called Gods.

And therefore all good Kings in their gouernment, must imitate God and his Christ, in being iust and righteous; Dauid and Salomon, in being godly and wise: To be wise, is vnderstood, able to discerne, able to iudge others: To be godly is, that the fountaine be pure whence the streames proceed: for what auailes it though all his workes be godly, if they proceed not from godlinesse: To bee righteous, is to a mans selfe: To bee iust, is towards others.