I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Here are two words in the Text speak as much; Cast-down, Disquieted. And three times in this Psalm, the Psalmist saith, His Soul was cast down within him; yet this David was a man of great Peace and Comfort ordinarily.

And as with David; so it was, is, and will be with other Saints. This is so ordinary a case, that •he Holy Ghost hath provided a standing Psalm, or Prayer, on purpose for such as are in this condition: Psalm, 102. the Title, A Prayer; or Psalm, of the afflicted, when he is over-whelmed, and poureth out his ⟨p. 22⟩complaint before the Lord. In Psal. 119.25. he saith, My belly cleaves to the dust; and that is low indeed. And vers. 28. My soul melteth for heaviness: I am not only sad, and heavy, but my soul melteth for heaviness. Canticles 5. The Spouse saith, Her heart was gone; or, my soul failed within me. And if we look into Psalm, 143. we find (at the 4. vers.) that the Psalmist saith, My Spirit is over-whelmed, and my heart within me is desolate. What do all these expressions, high, great and many, speak, but this Truth that is now before us?

And as with David; so it was, is, and will be with other Saints. This is so ordinary a case, that •he Holy Ghost hath provided a standing Psalm, or Prayer, on purpose for such as are in this condi••on: Psalm, 102. the Title, A Prayer; or Psalm, of the afflicted, when he is over-whelmed, and poureth out his ⟨p. 22⟩