And therefore I shall peradventure
(unless any further thing fall in our way) with treating of those
two verses, finish and end all our matter.
The prophet saith in the ninetieth psalm, "_Scuto circumdabit te
veritas eius; non timebis a timore nocturno, a sagitta volante in
die, a negotio perambulante in tenebris, ab incurso et demonio
meridiano._ The truth of God shall compass thee about with a
shield, you shall not be afraid of the night's fear, nor of the
arrow flying in the day, nor of business walking about in the
darknesses, nor of the incursion or invasion of the devil in the
midday."
First, cousin, in these words "the truth of God shall compass thee
about with a shield," the prophet for the comfort of every good
man in all temptation and in all tribulation, besides those other
things that he said before--that the shoulders of God should
shadow them and that also they should sit under his wing--here
saith he further that the truth of God shall compass thee with a
shield. That is, as God hath faithfully promised to protect and
defend those that faithfully will dwell in the trust of his help,
so will he truly perform it. And thou who art such a one, the
truth of his promise will defend thee not with a little round
buckler that scantly can cover the head, but with a long large
shield that covereth all along the body.
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