Section 77
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Vers. 77. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy Law is my delight.
Vers. 77. Let thy tender mercies come vnto me, that I may liue: for thy Law is my delight.
IN that he doubleth this request in two verses, he showeth that he had no light feeling of sin, yea that he was as a dead man, because he felt not the life of God in him.1 This must we mark, that when we are brought to so low estate, that all comfort seemeth to be past, yet let us remember that Gods children have been so; and therefore let us double our prayers, knowing that with the Lord is mercy, with him is life in death, and help in the greatest extremity. This if we can do, then shall we be armed against the greatest temptation that Satan hath; and that is this, to persuade us that our case is such, as never any of Gods children were in: our temptations such, as no man had; our sins such as none have committed: with which if he can prevail, then doth he make us past hope of recovery, then doth he make us past using any means to be recovered: for when we are persuaded that the disease is incurable, then we leave all means that might help us Mark the tender consciences of Gods children.