A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm

And these things amongst others are we to consider in God to lead our hearts into an acquiescing in his Will, a submission under his mighty hand, and a patient waiting for the issue.

¹2. Consider our mean and abject condition, and that infinite distance wherein we stand from him with whom we have to do. When Abraham, the Father of the faithful, and friend of God, came to treat with him about his Judgements, he doth it with this acknowledgement of his condition, that he was mere dust and ashes, Gen. 18. 27. A poor abject Creature that God at his pleasure had formed out of the dust of the earth, and which in a few days was to be reduced again into the ashes of it. We can forget nothing more perniciously than what we are. Man is a worm, saith Bildad, and the Son of man is but a worm, Job 25. 6. And therefore says Job himself, I have said to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister, chap. 17. 14. His Affinity, his Relation unto them is the nearest imaginable, and he is no otherwise to be accounted of; and there is nothing that God abhors more than an Elation of mind in the forgetfulness of our mean frail condition. Thou sayest, said he to the proud Prince of Tyre, that thou art a God, but saith he, wilt thou say thou art a God in the hands of him that ⟨p. 392⟩slays thee, Ezek. 28. 9. That severe conviction did God provide for his pride. Thou shalt be a man, and no God in the hand of him that slays thee. And when Herod prided himself in the acclamations of the vain multitude, (the voice of God and not of a man.) The Angel of the Lord filled that God immediately with worms which slew him and devoured him, Acts 12. 23