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)…

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…

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…

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…

(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…

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…

4. It is not contrary to the grace of the Gospel. No, it is the fruit of it; (Psalm 130:4) There is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared. The heart is shy of a condemning God, but closes with and adheres to a pardoning God: and nothing breeds this fear to offend, so much…

Joseph is an instance of the power of this holy fear (Genesis 39:9): How shall I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? Secondly the other character, I hope in your Word; a Christian lives by faith, whereas the brutish worldling lives by sense; the one lives by bread onl…

Our eyes are always looking to heaven, which is the seat and solace of our happiness. David describes his earnestness notably (Psalm 130:5-6): I wait for the Lord, my soul does wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waits for the Lord, more than they that watch for the morning.

And if you would keep the commandments, confirm your faith in the promises of forgiveness of sin, of God's providence, and eternal life. For if you can believe these, no pleasure or pain shall make you forsake your obedience (Psalm 130:4). A child of God dares not warp and turn…

Secondly, it is a hope which fills the heart with gladness; we rejoice in hope of the glory of God (Romans 5:2). Thirdly, it is a hope that is founded upon the promise; as there can be no true faith without a promise, so nor any true hope — faith applies the promise, and hope ex…

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Heretofore he could make a shift to shake off the fear of the threatenings of the word, which were denounced to stop the mouth of his conscience, which whispered bitter things in his bosom, and to wear away the [illegible] that stuck in his heart; and therefore foolishly thought…

He deals not with us after our iniquities, but as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his mercy to them that fear him. (Psalm 130:7-8) Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with him there is multiplied [reconstructed: mercy], and he shall deliver him from all his iniqui…

A godly man's hope is built upon a double basis. The Word of God (Psalm 130:5): in his Word do I hope. The Word says: let the sinner forsake his way, and the Lord will abundantly pardon; the Word says: hereby we know that Christ abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us…

The phrase is frequent in Scripture, which sets out the solemn discharge they shall have then, by standing in judgement, Psalms 1:5. The wicked shall not stand in the judgement; that is, they shall not be justified, Psalms 130:3. If you, Lord, shouldest mark iniquity, O Lord, wh…

The Covenant of Works is made with all mankind. (6.) No people under the Law can be justified and saved thereby, nor have their sins pardoned (Romans 3:9-11, 19-20; Romans 4:1-4; Romans 9; Romans 10; Psalm 130:3; Psalm 143:2; Galatians 3:1-3, 10-13). But in this Covenant, Abraha…

To which I may add this dilemma to our universalists: God imposed his wrath due unto, and Christ underwent the pains of hell for, either all the sins of all men, or all the sins of some men, or some sins of all men. If the last, some sins of all men, then have all men some sins…

(1) Some fix their faith and trust principally on the grace, love, and mercy of God; especially they did so under the Old testament, before the clear Revelation of Christ and his mediation. So did the Psalmist, Psalm 130:34. Psalm 33:18, 19.

For my design is to prove, that it has no such Interest in our justification before God, as that the righteousness of Christ should not be esteemed the only righteousness whereon we are justified. And first, we shall produce some of those many testimonies which may be pleaded un…

2. That which in order of nature seems to have the precedency is the assent of the mind unto that which the Psalmist betakes himself unto in the first place for relief, under a sense of sin and trouble, Psalm 130:3, 4. If you Lord shouldst mark iniquity, O Lord, who shall stand.