A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm

Thirdly, The blood and Cross of Christ is also brought to remembrance by the Holy Ghost. Ah, saith the soul, have I thus requited the wonderful astonishing Love of my Redeemer? Is this the return, the requital, I have made unto him? Are not Heaven ⟨p. 59⟩and Earth astonished at the despising of that Love, at which they are astonished? This brake Peters heart upon the look of Christ. Such words as these from Christ, will in this condition, sound in the ears of the soul. Did I love thee, and leave my glory to become a scorn and reproach for thy sake? Did I not think my life, and all that was dear unto me too good for thee, to save thee from the wrath to come? Have I been a Wilderness unto thee, or a land of darkness? What could I have done more for thee; when I had nothing left but my life, blood and soul, they went all for thee that thou mightest live by my death, be washed in my blood, and be saved through my souls being made an offering for thee? And hast thou thus requited my love? to prefer a lust before me, the world before me, or by mere sloth and folly to be turned away from me; go unkind and unthankful soul, and see if thou canst find another Redeemer: This overwhelms the soul, and even drowns it in tears and sorrow. And then the bitterness also of the sufferings of Christ, are brought to mind. They look on him whom they have pierced and mourn, Zech. 12. 10. They remember his gall and wormwood; his cries and tears; his agony and sweat, his desertion and anguish; his blood and death; the sharpness of the Sword that was in his soul, and the bitterness of the Cup that was put into his hand. Such a soul now looks on Christ, bleeding, dying, wrestling with wrath and curse for him, and seeth his sin in the streams of blood that issued from his side. And all this increaseth that sense of sin whereof we speak. Also,

Thirdly, The blood and Cross of Christ is also brought to remembrance by the Holy Ghost. Ah, saith the soul, have I thus requited the wonderful astonishing Love of my Redeemer? Is this the return, the requital, I have made unto him? Are not Heaven ⟨p. 59⟩and Earth astonished at the despising of that Love, at which they are astonished? This brake Peters heart upon the look of Christ. Such words as these from Christ, will in this condition, sound in the ears of the soul. Did I love thee, and leave my glory to become a scorn and reproach for thy sake? Did I not think my life, and all that was dear unto me too good for thee, to save thee from the wrath to come? Have I been a Wilderness unto thee, or a land of darkness? What could I have done more for thee; when I had nothing left but my life, blood and soul, they went all for thee that thou mightest live by my death, be washed in my blood, and be saved through my souls being made an offering for thee? And hast thou thus requited my love? to prefer a lust before me, the world before me, or by meer sloth and folly to be turned away from me; go unkind and unthankful soul, and see if thou canst find another Redeemer: This overwhelms the soul, and even drowns it in tears and sorrow. And then the bitterness also of the sufferings of Christ, are brought to mind. They look on him whom they have pierced and mourn,