TRANSLATED FROM THE WORKS OF LUTHER, BY THE REV. HENRY COLE, OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE,. AND LATE LECTURER OF WOOLWICH, Kent. The memory of the just is blessed : but the name of the wicked shall rot. Prov. x. 7. He being dead yet speaketh. Heb. xi. 4. VOLUME IV. London: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY T. BENsley, SOLD BY J. EEDES, NO. 2, NEWGATE STREET; AND BY WM. Clarke, no. 14, king's row, wALWORTH. COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST TWENTY-TWO PSALMS. PSALM XII. TO VICTORY. UPON THE EIGHTH. A PSALM OF DAVID. CONCERNING this eight-chorded harp we have spoken at sufficient length under Psalm vi. we shall therefore proceed with the text. Ver. 1.-Save me, O Lord, for the saint faileth, for truths are diminished from the sons of men. It is angry love that speaks in this Psalm: which we call, zeal for God: even as the Apostle also, 2 Cor. xi. 2, speaking with the same feelings says, "I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For he is speaking against those who are set over the ministry of the Word among the people of God, and who are teaching their own words to the great destruction of souls, instead of the Word of God; thus abusing their power of teaching, and corrupting the pure and sincere doctrine of the divine law. Such as these also David had to. bear with in his time, and he foresaw that there would be others of the same kind at the time of the coming of Christ : against these characters Christ inveighs, Matt. xxiii., saying, "Woe unto you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in." And again, Luke xi. 52, "Woe unto you lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of |