An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

¹Secondly, From the latter part of the verse thus translated, Neither hath he made any great inquisition; that is, he hath not taken strict knowledge of thy sins, though a multitude, though even past number; though there be abundance of them, and they abounding in sinfulness, yet he hath not made any great inquisition after them;

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Hence Note; The Lord doth not severely mark the sins of his people, no not the multitude nor magnitude of their sins, to punish them.

(Psal. 130.3.) If thou Lord shouldest mark iniquity, implying that the Lord doth not mark (in the sense here intended) if thou shouldest mark iniquity) O Lord, who shall stand? The word in that Psalm rendered to mark, notes, first, to watch, or to observe with exactest diligence,¹ and is therefore in the Noun rendered a watch Tower, upon which a man is placed to take observation of all things that are done, and of all persons that pass by, or approach and come near. A Watch-man placed upon a high-Tower, is bound industriously and critically to observe all Passengers, and passages, all that his eye can reach: So saith the Text, If thou shouldest mark as a Watch-man, and eye with rigour every thing that passeth from us, Who could stand? That is, make good his Cause in the day of his judgement and trial before thee? Secondly, The word signifieth to keep in mind, to lay up, to have, as it were, a store and stock, a memorial or record, of such and such things by us. In that notion it is said (