Psalms 6

First, "Give."] Hence I note, 1. That the good things of this life are the gifts of God; he is the founder and donor. 2. From this word "give," I note, that it is not unlawful to pray for temporal things; we may pray for daily bread (Proverbs 30:8): "Feed me with food convenient…

Thus have other of God's servants done, beside Hezekias. When David was grievously sick, the principal thing he did, was this practice of faith; in humbling his soul before God for his sins, and entreating earnestly the pardon of them, as we may see Psalm 6 and 38. This is the p…

We often find more fault, and first blame in Christ, if not only, before we see our own provocations. Hence the complaints of Job (chapters 6, 13, 16, 19) and of Jeremiah (chapters 20, 15) of Hezekiah (Isaiah 38) of Asaph (Psalm 77) of Heman (Psalm 88) of the Church (Isaiah 49:1…

Secondly, this Spirit of God that we receive from the holy one, it is also a spirit of faith, that inwardly persuades us that God has indeed heard us, and that he will do for us whatever we desire, and will sometimes evidently bear witness of it to the heart of a man (Mark 11:24…

And of such terrors David speaks in Psalm 22:17, where he says; I may tell all my bones. Again, Psalm 6:6, I water my couch with tears. Also, My soul is sore troubled (Psalm 6:3).

We have our How longs, and has not God his? We cry, Psalm 6:3 But you O Lord, how long? Psalm 13. 1, 2. How long wilt you forget me, O Lord, for ever?

My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments (Psalm 119:120). The flesh is to be awed with divine judgments, though the higher and surer part of the soul is strongly and freely tied with the cords of love, temporal corrections indeed they fear not so much…

How earnestly does David pray wash me, Purge me with hyssop. Though bathed in tears (Psalm 6:6), that satisfied not — wash me. This is the honorable condition of the saints, that they are purified and consecrated to God by this sprinkling, yea have on long white robes washed in…

1. Instances (Psalm 118:17): I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord. This was David's hope in the prolongation of life, that he should have further opportunity to honor God; and this argument he urges to God when he prays for life (Psalm 6:5): For in death t…

Though the wicked are not presently punished, yet they are all cursed, and in time they shall be punished. 4. The begun-execution of this curse, You have rebuked them, that is, punished or destroyed (Psalm 6:1), Rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot displea…

'This is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us; and if we know that he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him': God's hearing of us, his audience is a distinct thing from the ans…

3. We learn from this the preciousness of time; it was so to David, see how he spends the time of his life. We read of David when he lay down at night, he watered his couch with his tears, after the examination of his heart (Psalm 6:6); at midnight he rose to give thanks. In the…

Second, we may complain of the delay of comfort, God's children have done so. Psalm 6:3. "But you, O Lord, how long?" Psalm 13:1. "How long will you forget me, Lord, forever? how long will you hide your face from me?"

God seals his pardons upon melting hearts. Tears, though they are silent, yet have a voice (Psalm 6:8). Tears wash away sin; rain melts and washes away a ball of snow.

2. It is a more Gospel way to bear in the threat of everlasting wrath than of temporal rods. 3. Desertions and trials under the Law were more legal and sharp and sad upon David, Hezekiah, Job, Jeremiah, Heman (Psalm 6; Psalm 38; Psalm 77; Psalm 102; Psalm 88; Isaiah 38; Jeremiah…

She brought two things to Christ (says Austin) unguentum & lachrymas, tears and oyntment; her tears were better than her oyntment. Tears are powerful Orators for mercy; they are silent, yet they have a voice, (Psalm 6:8). Hear the voice of my [illegible]eeping.

8. A godly man is an Evangelical weeper. David did sometimes sing with his Harp, and sometimes the Organ of his eye did weep, Psalm 6:6. I water my couch with tears. Christ calls his Spouse his Dove, Canticles 2:14.

Pour out your wrath upon the nations that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon your name. And David says: Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, nor correct me in your anger (Psalm 6:2; Psalm 38:2). And it makes nothing to the contrary, that oftentimes…

That affliction may be a Furnace to refine, not consume us. Pray, that if God do correct us, it may not be in anger, Psalm 6:1. That we may taste the honey of his love at the end of the rod.

David is often fainting in misery, yet by and by revived. Therefore there is good cause why the consideration of repentance and the combat should go together, that no man, after he has begun to repent, might dream of ease to his flesh, as though we should go to heaven in beds of…

How sad a moan does Job make of his long-continued affliction (Job 16:6-7): 'Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased?', 'But now he has made me weary.' And if you look into Psalm 6:3, 6, you may see another strong Christian even tired in t…

Therefore, Faith frequently in the Psalms, prays, and answers. Psalm 6:4, compared with verse 9. Psalm 55:2, Attend to me, and hear me, verse 19.

3. This cannot stand with the promise of perseverance, made in the covenant of grace (Jeremiah 32:40-41; Isaiah 59:21, 24; Ezekiel 36:27; John 6:39-40; John 4:13-14). Nor 4. with the faith of persuasion of perseverance (Romans 8:38-39; Jude 24-25; Psalm 6; 2 Timothy 4:18), and 5…

There are some cautions here that are considerable. 1. God leads some strong ones to heaven whose affections are soft, as David's were (Psalm 35:13 and Psalm 119:25, 28, 136, 53; Psalm 6:6), and yet faith is strong (Psalm 22:1) — God possibly immediately working upon the assenti…

Objection 2: I have not so much as a voice to utter to God; and Christ says (Song of Songs 2:14): Cause me to hear your voice. Answer: Indeed, but some other thing has a voice besides the tongue (Psalm 6:8). The Lord has heard the voice of my weeping: tears have a tongue, and gr…

2. The ground of it is God's mercy; the two blind men (Matthew 20:30) put this in their bill — they cry, Have mercy on us, O Lord, you Son of David. They will not have seeing eyes, but under the notion of mercy: David, pained with severe sickness, as some think, or under some ot…

And a threefold grace watchfulness has a special respect to in this particular. First purity, both with God and man (Psalm 6:18). If I regard iniquity, if I squint aside at any sin, God will not hear me.

And so between works and such passions there is an inestimable difference of better place, condition, and price. Moreover, the highest degree of faith is when God punishes our conscience not only with temporal hurts and persecutions, but with death, hell, and sin, and seems in a…