Psalms 130

3. Afflictions on the godly make them better, but afflictions on the wicked make them worse. The godly pray more (Psalm 130:1). The wicked blaspheme more (Revelation 16:9).

How should we therefore labor for forgiveness! till then we can have no ease in our mind, nothing but a pardon sealed in the blood of a Redeemer can ease a wounded spirit. 4. Forgiveness of sin is feasible, it may be obtained, impossibility destroys endeavor, but as (Ezra 10:2)…

Satisfaction is but in part, there is something of the old man and his works; these things are obstructive to being justified for our own doings. The Psalmist cries out (Psalm 141:2), Enter not into judgment with your servant, for in your sight shall no flesh be justified, and (…

I mention these passages from the Old Testament rather than the New, from which you see God's name and his Son's name are all-sufficient to uphold and support a soul. So the writer of Psalm 130, when he was in his depths, plunged over head and ears in sorrow and discomfiture, wh…

If it is said to you, 'Yes, but you are most unworthy' — answer: 'But he professes to love freely.' If the greatness of your sins is objected against you, plead again that 'plenteous redemption is with him' (Psalm 130:7) — and if you have not enough to pardon me, say, 'I am cont…

This mercy seemed so wonderful to him, both for that he knew it was undeserved (knowing himself a sinful man, and therefore not able to merit God's favor, and being privy to himself of his own manifold imperfections) and also unexpected, for he never thought to have been spared…

And so are all legal threatenings to be understood in the word of God. In this circumstance of the person, and in the quality of her sin, we may note the endless mercy of God towards sinners; for, he hath vouchsafed to call most notorious and grievous sinners to the state of sal…

But it is Faith alone that receives the Promise and giveth an Interest therein. (2) That its nature and essence consists in Trust in God, which if it be not the Foundation of all its exercise, whatever may be so called is but a deceiving presumption (Psalm 33:18; 42:5; Psalm 130…

For with respect thereunto, all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, most unmeet to be presented to him (Isaiah 64:6). And if he should mark what is amiss in us or them, who should stand (Psalm 130:3). Much less (3) are they so meet for him, as that by them we should merit an…

Being therefore thus beset on every side, we are to be touched with the sense of this our great misery. And he that will pray aright, must put on the person and the very affection of a poor wretched beggar, and certainly not being grieved with the rueful condition in which we ar…

Mercy runneth down from God, and begets peace of conscience, for peace of conscience is nothing else but a solid taste of God's mercy; and peace of conscience begets love, by which we clasp about God again; for love is nothing else but a reverberation or beating back of God's be…

Or should not rather the goodness of God lead me to repentance — Romans 2:4? 'There is mercy with you, that you may be feared' — Psalm 130:4. Argument 6. Lastly, sometimes Satan encourages to sin from the examples of good and holy men: 'Thus and thus they have sinned and been re…

(Jeremiah 24:7) After the promise of delivering those that were carried away to Babylon, there is another promise added of that which was much better: I will give an heart to know me that I am your Lord, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, for they shall return…

And he that will pray aright, must put on the person, and the very affection of a poor wretched beggar: and certainly not being grieved with the rueful condition in which we are in ourselves, it is not possible for us to pray effectually. Psalm 130:1: Out of the depths I called…

Taught therefore to look for all things from the most free grace and good pleasure of God, they strive to depend wholly upon His will, and not to seek in a troubled or impatient manner the remedies for their evils for which they long (Habakkuk 1:2–4). That consternation of soul,…

(Psalm 73:25): Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside you. (Psalm 130:6): My soul waits for the Lord, more than they that watch for the morning. So Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:3); Paul (2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Timothy 4:7-8; 1 Corinthians 15:9-10).

And when your soul shall be laden with glory and thousands of souls blowing and spitting out blasphemies on the Majesty of God, out of the sense of the torment of the gnawing worm that never dies — and you consider the soul of Judas might have been in my soul's stead, and my sou…

It was this that brought in the prodigal — that in his father's house there was bread enough. And so likewise he (whoever he was) who was the author of Psalm 130, when his soul was in deep distress by reason of his sins (verses 1–2), yet this was it that settled his heart to wai…

Thirdly, there is a third work of this Spirit, and that is this; it works as it is a spirit of hope, and that moves a man to wait upon God, that though God should tarry long, and he should pray heartily for such and such requests to be granted; in such a case as this our spirits…

Though good helps are of special use, God blessing them to save and lift up a poor soul out of sin, but know this, that it is a work of an Almighty power to deliver a soul from sin — no less than the redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ. He redeems Israel from all his iniquities…

God has appointed him a Prince, and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins; there is therefore this salvation to be had in Christ, not only deliverance out of the hands of dangers, but from the hands of all our sins and rebellions, and to be saved from t…

It is true, a dead hearted Christian comes to good duties like a bear to a stake, while they are in such a temper; if they can shun duties they will, but take the heart of a Christian when it is alive, and then they are a willing people (Psalm 110:3), they come with some inward…

And in Psalm 143 David prays: O Lord enter not into judgment with your servant, for in your sight shall none that lives be justified. And in Psalm 130: If you O Lord should strictly mark iniquities, Lord who shall stand in your presence? But with you is mercy, etc.

That the son of God himself must be sent forth from the bosom of his father, this shows the greatness of our sin and misery, which was the occasion of this sending. And this must teach us with bitterness to hate and detest our sins, which fetched the son of God from heaven, and…

Job confesses he cannot answer one of a thousand (Job 9:3). And David says, If you, Lord, shall mark what is done amiss, who can abide it? (Psalm 130:3). And Paul says of himself, that he found no means to perform that which is good (Romans 7:18).

But we know, that no sacrifice is acceptable to God, which is not offered willingly, and with a cheerful heart. Before men can truly worship God, they must obtain peace of conscience, as David speaks, “There is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou may be feared,” (Psalm 130:4:) for…

Section 4. Men may be subdued by the power of the law and compelled to a strict course of duty, and advantaged by a sedate natural constitution, desire of applause, self-righteousness, or superstition may make a great appearance of holiness — but if the principle of what they do…

Evangelical repentance is a humiliation for sin before God; but the sinner never comes and humbles himself before God, in any other repentance, but that which includes a hoping in his mercy for remission: if his sorrow be not accompanied with that, there will be no coming to God…

I do not say, that God never afflicts his people, but for their sin; for he may do it for their tryal, 1 Peter 4:12 Nor do I say, that God follows every sin with a rod; for who then should stand before him? Psalm 130:3 But this I say, that it's Gods usual way, to visit the sins…

And [in non-Latin alphabet] Boker properly signifies the first appearance of the morning, the light that must be enquired and sought after before the rising of the Sun. So David (Psalm 130:6) compares the earnest expectation of his soul for mercy, to the diligent watching of men…

As our bodies in our approach to God are said to be washed with pure water (Hebrews 10:22). The everlasting fire, typing out the eternal Spirit, through which Christ offered himself to God (Hebrews 9:14), being applied by the Priest to the wood, the whole was incinerated (Psalm…

Besides secondly, it could not absolutely preserve men in its own observation; for it required that obedience which never any sinner did or could in all things perform; as the Scriptures of the Old Testament abundantly manifest. For they tell us, there is no man that sins not (1…

Now it being the law wherein sinners are concerned, the rule of all things between God and them should seem to be by what they can do or suffer with respect to that law: no, says the Scripture, it cannot be so; for by the deeds of the law no man living shall be justified in the…

Indeed sometime a spiritual disposition to pray or praise, or hope, goes along with the command. Now the obligation of the command to praise is ever one, and it is good when the man can say, My heart is fixed, I will praise (Psalm 57), and the command to wait on the Lord lies ev…

Et peccata quotidianae incursionis praecise sub periculo aeternae condemnationis. Yes, but there is not any Law nor Gospel which forbids not sin under the same penalty that the Law forbids; and the Gospel forbids not adultery and murder in David, but he is free from eternal puni…

That is the spirit of Satan in some, who boast that they are beyond and above the word of the Kingdom, and such must be beyond and on the other side of heaven. They who wait for the Lord, and whose soul waits for God, they hope in his word (Psalm 130:5, 6). Libertines' souls can…

So his way (Matthew 5:6; Luke 1:53): if thirsts for life, and not for the bare condemning letter. 3. There is something which we call fetching of the wind, and casting of a board again to wind to the right harbour, and it is a sort of courting the wind, and that is the case of t…

I know God does sometimes come in upon the soul instantly, in a moment as it were, wounding and healing it; as I am persuaded it was in the case of David when he cut off the lap of Saul's garment. But ordinarily in such a case God calls for waiting and laboring, attending as the…

Let the Wicked forsake his Way, and the unrighteous Man his Thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have Mercy upon him, and to our God, and he will abundantly pardon. Psalm 130:4, et cetera. There is Forgiveness with thee that thou may'st be feared.

Faith establishes the heart on Jesus Christ, and Hope lifts it up, being on that Rock over the head of all intervening Dangers, Crosses, and Temptations, and sees the glory and happiness that follows after them. To the end] Or perfectly, and therefore the Christian seeks most ea…

And again, the application to us is merely grace, when so many thousands perish in their sins; therefore we are to beg, to sue out this grace, that we may have the benefit of Christ's death. God does it, that in begging we may acknowledge our own misery, and how unable we are to…

But he being full of Compassion, forgave their Iniquity, yea many a time turned he his anger away from them. From this word, I will spare them as a man spares his Son, take Notice, that the best need sparing,Psalm 130:3. If you, Lord, should mark Iniquities, Lord, who shall stan…

1. When the Lord afflicts the Saints yet he deals well with them, because he is their God. David was in the deep of Sorrow, Psalm 130:1. Yet he could say, the Lord was his Portion, Psalm 16:5.

In short, distrust draws with itself a certain phrenesis by which the conscience of the unbelieving and contumacious is incessantly gnawed. Therefore not amiss does the prophet in Psalm 130 say that God is propitious and naturally beneficent in receiving sinners into grace, that…

At first hearing of these words, a man might reply, Oh, then none can be blessed, if that be the qualification, For who can say my heart is clean? (Proverbs 20:9). I answer, This undefiledness is to be understood according to the tenor of the second Covenant, which does not excl…

If God calls you to a punctual account of the most inoffensive day that ever you passed over, what will become of you? If you, O Lord, shall mark iniquity, O Lord who shall stand? (Psalm 130:3). Better never have been born, than be liable to that judgment.

4. To awaken the spirit of prayer. "Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Lord" (Psalm 130:1). Affliction puts an edge upon our desires.

The principle is true but the conclusion is false, certainly God is merciful, there is no end nor measure, nor bank nor bottom in his mercy; but throughout the whole Scriptures mercy is only promised to the penitent, and those that come to God by Christ. Take mercy according to…

2. The profession of his faith is renewed, For I have hoped in your judgments, the word [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] judgments signifies either the law, or the execution of the sentence thereof. 1. The law or whole Word of God, so that I have hoped in your judgments, is no more,…

Use 2. Of Exhortation, To press us if we would have God for our God, then to seek his favor above all things. Wait with an affectionate earnestness in every ordinance for some new discovery, some comfortable intimation of God's Word (Psalm 130:6): My soul waits for you — what fo…