It may be now thou art in health, thou dost not now confess thy uncleanness, and thy drunkenness, and thy pride, and thy profaneness; but what wilt thou do when God brings thee on a death-bed? when God hedges in thy ways with thorns, the conscience will reflect on thee, and suggest guilt to thee, and draw out confession from thee, it is a fit season; when God doth bring a man under any outward affliction, then he is in good plight to confess sin.1 It is worth your notice in the 38. Psalm, it was made when David lay on his sick-bed, as he thought his death-bed: you shall find it is a complaint of a very strong disease David lay under, in the 3. vers. Vers. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh, because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. Vers. 5.2 My wounds stink and are corrupt, because of my foolishness. Vers. 7.§7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh. Here he was lying on a sick-bed; and Interpreters say that he made this Psalm when he was sick. It is worth your notice of the title that David gives this Psalm, A Psalm of David to bring to remembrance. David when he was on his death-bed as he thought, he said it shall be a Psalm of remembrance, to bring sin to remembrance, to confess to God my uncleanness with Bathsheba, to bring to remembrance the evils of my life; it was a good plight David was in when he lay on a sick-bed, he would make this title of the Psalm, A Psalm to call to remembrance: men are in a ⟨p. 10⟩fit plight to make confession to God when they lye under any bodily sickness; call to remembrance thy pride, call to remembrance thy passion, call to remembrance thy vain dalliance, whatever thy fin be, it may be I may not hit of it, but when ever God brings thee under affliction, thou art then in a fit plight to confess sin unto God, and call to remembrance thy sins. As it was with the Mariners in the storm with Jonah, when there was scarce any hope to be saved then they fell a calling each one on his God. Which occasioned the Proverb, He that hath not yet learnt to pray, let him go to sea. So Jer. 2 vers. 24. A wild Ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure, in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves, in her month they shall find her.
It may be now thou art in health, thou dost not now confesse thy uncleannesse, and thy drunkennesse, and thy pride, and thy prophanenesse; but what wilt thou do when God brings thee on a death-bed? when God hedges in thy waies with thornes, the conscience will reflect on thee, and suggest guilt to thee, and draw out confession from thee, it is a fit season; when God doth bring a man under any outward affliction, then he is in good plight to confesse sin.1 It is worth your notice in the 38. Psalme, it was made when David lay on his sick-bed, as he thought his death-bed: you shall finde it is a complaint of a very strong disease David lay under, in the 3. vers. Vers. 3 There is no soundnesse in my flesh, because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. Vers. 5.2 My wounds stink and are corrupt, because of my foolishnesse. Vers. 7.§7 For my loines are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh. Here he was lying on a sick-bed; and Interpreters say that he made this Psalme when he was sick. It is worth your notice of the title that David gives this Psalme, A Psame of David to bring to remembrance. David when he was on his death-bed as he thought, he said it shall be a Psalm of remembrance, to bring sin to remembrance, to confess to God my uncleannesse with Bathsheba, to bring to remembrance the evils of my life; it was a good plight David was in when he lay on a sick-bed, he would make this title of the Psalme, A Psalme to call to remembrance: men are in a ⟨p. 10⟩fit plight to make confession to God when they lye under any bodily sicknesse; call to remembrance thy pride, call to remembrance thy passion, call to remembrance thy vain dalliance, whatever thy fin be, it may be I may not hit of it, but when ever God brings thee under affliction, thou art then in a fit plight to confesse sin unto God, and call to remembrance thy sins. As it was with the Marriners in the storme with Jonah, when there was scarce any hope to be saved then they fell a calling each one on his God. Which occasioned the Proverbe, He that hath not yet learnt to pray, let him goe to sea. So Jer. 2 vers. 24. A wilde Asse used to the wildernesse, that snuffeth up the winde at her pleasure, in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves, in her moneth they shall finde her.
- 1Psal. 38.
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