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Sweeter Words than these could not come from the Sweet Singer of Israel himself. The Hundred and Nineteenth, is the longest, and yet, if the Comparison be not odious, the sweetest, of all the Psalms; and perhaps the Psalm, like the Grace wherewith it was Composed, has a growing Sweetness, towards the Conclusion of it. The one and twentieth Octonary in this excellent Psalm, is a Bundle of Heavenly Affections; this two and twentieth Octonary is an Heap of Holy Petitions. There are especially Six Petitions in this last part of the Psalm. The fourth and fifth of them are in the ⟨p. 107⟩words now before us. He begs, First, for his Life, then for God's Help. The Life petition`d for, may be understood as Two-fold: it is called, The life of the Soul; both Natural Life, and Spiritual Life may be intended in that Expression. But chiefly the former. Let my soul live; it is q. d. Let my Self live. Tis an usual Hebraism. In that signification it was the Choice of Sampson, Let me die, in the Hebrew it is, Let my Soul die with the Philistines. The Help petitioned for, has Two Things declared concerning it. We have the For-What of this Help; this is, That he might attend the Business for which he desired to live; namely, To praise God. And we also have the From-Whence, of this Help; this is, From the Judgments of God. Thy Judgments this is one of the Ten various Phrases used here, to signify, the Ways and Means whereby God, reveals Himself unto the world.