A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm

2. Man who had sinned subscribed in his heart and conscience unto the righteous sentence of the Law. He knew what he had deserved, and looked for nothing but the immediate Execution of the sentence of death upon him. Hence he meditates not a defence, expects no pardon, stays not for a trial, but flies and hides, and attempts an escape. Gen. 3. 10. I was afraid, saith he, and hid my self; than which never were there words of greater horror in the world, nor shall be until the day of Judgement. Poor Creature, he was full of expectation of the vengeance due for a broken Covenant.

2. Man who had sinned subscribed in his heart and consctence unto the righteous sentence of the Law. He knew what he had deserved, and looked for nothing but the immediate Execution of the sentence of death upon him. Hence he meditates not a defence, expects no pardon, stayes not for a tryal, but flyes and hides, and attempts an escape. Gen. 3. 10. I was afraid, saith he, and hid my self; than which never were there words of greater horror in the world, nor shall be until the day of Judgement. Poor Creature, he was full of expectation of the vengeance due for a broken Covenant.

3. God had newly declared in the sinning Angels what his Justice required, and how he could deal with sinning man without the least impeachment of his Government, Holiness or Goodness. See 2 Pet. 2. 4.

4. There was nothing without God himself that should move him in the least, so much as to suspend the execution of his wrath for one moment; he had not done so with the Angels. All things lay now under wrath, curse, confusion, and disorder: nothing was left good, lovely, or desirable in his eye. As in the first Creation, that which was first brought forth from nothing was [Greek or Hebrew] without form and void, empty of all order and beauty; nothing was in it to induce or move God to bring forth all things in the glory that ensued, but the whole design of it, proceeded from his own infinite Goodness and Wisdom; so was it now again. There was an Emptiness and Vanity brought by sin upon the whole creation. Nothing remained that might be a motive unto a merciful Restoration, but all is again devolved on his Sovereignty. All things being in this state and condition wherein all doors stood open to the Glory of Gods Justice in the punishing of sin, nothing remaining without him to hold his hand in the least; the whole creation, and especially the sinner himself lying trembling in Expectation of a dreadful doom, what now cometh forth from him? the blessed word which we have,