Section 19
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Vers. 19. I am a stranger upon earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
Vers. 19. I am a stranger vpon earth: hide not thy commandements from me.
I Am a stranger upon earth: He setteth down another reason why he would be instructed in the law of the Lord, because he is but here a stranger, that is, that he had not here any long abiding place, but continued here for a while. And this do all the men of God profess, Heb. 11. vers. 14. that they looked for another city: and therefore God was not ashamed to be called their God: so in another place David saith, I am a stranger as all my fathers were. If this were the affliction of Gods children in times past, it must be in us now, if we with them will be partakers of the same promises in the kingdom of heaven. We see then where we must make the beginning of all godliness and good religion, even in denying this world, and acknowledging our selves to be but pilgrims in the same. When a son is sent beyond