hear God himself engaging to " keep the feet of his saints," and that " the righteous shall hold on his way, and that he who hath clean hands (the very persons described in our text) shall wax stronger and stronger"' ! " Let this then stir us up to walk worthy of our high calling ; and let us " be steadfast, immov- able, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that our labour shall not he in vain in the Lord^.'''\
'" Job xvii. 9. n 1 Cor. xv. 58.
Ps. xvi. 4, Their sorroios shall he multiplied that hasten after
another god.
THERE is not, in all the writings of the Old Testament, a portion of Scripture that more fully attests the Messiahship of the Lord Jesus than this. All depended on his resurrection from the dead. And to this psalm both Peter, at the commencement of his ministry to the Jews% and Paul, on his first solemn mission to preach to the Gentiles, made their appeal as predicting the resurrection of the Lord Jesus on the third day^. In the beginning of the psalm, David speaks more particularly respecting himself: but even there he declares the blessedness of the Lord's people, and especially of those who were looking forward to the Messiah, beyond all the worshippers of false gods. And the contrast which he there forms will be the subject of our present meditations.
To elucidate it, I will,
L Confirm the assertion in my text —
It is universally true that " their sorrows are mul- tiplied that hasten after another god. It is realized amongst,
\. Pagans —
[They worship gods of wood and stone And
" their sorrows are universally and greatly multiplied." The very instant they begin, to feel a sense of guilt upon their souls, there is nothing so painful but they will do it, in order to
a Acts ii. 25—32. b Acts xiii. 34—37.