Ohs. 3. Inexhaustihle stores of mercy and redemption are need- ful for the encouragement of sinners to rest and wait on God: " With him is plenteous redemption." Such is your miser}^, so press- ing are your fears and disconsolations, that nothmg less than bound- less grace can relieve or support you; there are, therefore, such trea- sures and stores in God as are suited hereunto. " With him is plen- teous redemption."
Ohs. 4. The ground of all the dispensation of mercy, goodness, grace, and forgiveness, which is in God to sinners, is laid in the hlood of Christ; hence it is here called " Redemption." Unto this also we have spoken at large before.
Ohs. 5. All that luait on God on the account of mercy and grace shall have an undouhted issue of peace: " He shall redeem Israel." " Let him," saitli God, " lay hold on my arm, that he may have peace, and he shall have peace," Isa. xxvii. 5.
Ohs. 6. Mercy given to them that wait on God, shall, in the close
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and issue, he every ivay fall and satisfying: "He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities."
And these propositions do arise from the words as absolutely considered, and in themselves. If we mind their relation unto the peculiar condition of the soul represented in this psalm, they will yet afford us the ensuing observations : —
Ohs. 1. They %vho out of depths have, hy faith and waiting, obtain- ed mercy, or are supported in waiting from a sense of believed mercy and fo7'giveness, are fitted, and only they are fitted, to preach and declare grace and mercy unto others. This was the case with the psalmist. Upon his emerging out of his own depths and straits, he declares the mercy and redemption whereby he was delivered unto the whole Israel of God.
Ohs. 2. A saving pai-ticipation of grace and forgiveness leaves a deep impression of its fulness and excellency on the soid of a sinner. So was it here with the psalmist. Having himself obtained forgive- ness, he knows no bounds or measure, as it were, in the extolling of it: " There is with God, mercy, redemption, plenteous redemption, redeeming from all iniquity ; I have found it so, and so will every one do that shall believe it."
Now, these observations might all of them, especially the two last, receive a useful improvement; but whereas what I principally in- tended from this psalm hath been at large insisted on upon the first verses of it, I shall not here farther draw forth any meditations upon them, but content myself with the exposition that hath been given of the design of the psalmist and sense of his words in these last verses.
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