" praise and honour and glory will be ascribed, even to Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever." " Look then for this glorious period, and haste unto it," as the consummation of all your hopes, and the completion of all your joys": and by adding ^drtue to virtue, and grace to grace, ensure to yourselves an entrance, not like that of a mere wreck, but like a ship in full sail, even " an abundant entrance into the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ^."]
" 2 Pet. ill. 12. ^ 2 Pet. i. 5, 10, 11.
Ps. XXV. 6, 7. Remember, 0 Lord, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses ; for they have been ever of old. Remeviber not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions : accordiiig to thy mercy remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, 0 Lord.
AT what precise period this psalm was written, is not certainly known ; but probably about the time of Absalom's rebellion. It is evident that David's sorrows were very greater but those which appear to have pressed with the greatest weight upon his mind arose from a view of his past transgressions, and probably from that flagrant iniquity committed by him in the matter of Uriah''. His mode of plead- ing with God is that to which I propose, in a more especial manner, to draw your attention, because it affords an excellent pattern for us, in all our ap- proaches to the throne of grace.
Let us notice,
L What he desires —
He desires God to " remember the tender mercies and loving-kindnesses" with which he had favoured him in times past. Now this is almost the last peti- tion which we should have expected from a person mourning under a sense of sin, because the kindness of God to us forms one of the greatest aggravations of our sins. God himself made this the ground of his complaint against his people of old : " What could I have done more for my vineyard, that I have not done
=> ver. 16, 17. b ver. 11, 18.