judgment on another, a slight trial in our own person, or a solemn
monition in our conscience by the Spirit.
(2) Chastening. This follows the
other when the first is disregarded. Pain, losses, bereavements,
melancholy, and other trials.
II. The evils in them to be most
dreaded, anger and hot displeasure.
III. The means to avert these ills.
Humiliation, confession, amendment, faith in the Lord, etc.
Verse 1. The believer's greatest dread, the anger of God. What
this fact reveals in the heart? Why is it so? What removes the
fear?
Verse 2. The argumentum ad misericordiam.
Verse 2. First sentence—Divine healing.
(1) What precedes it, my bones are
vexed.
(2) How it is wrought.
(3) What succeeds it.
Verse 3. The impatience of sorrow; its sins, mischief, and cure.
Verse 3. A fruitful topic may be found in considering the
question, How long will God continue afflictions to the righteous?
Verse 4. "Return, O Lord." A prayer suggested by a
sense of the Lord's absence, excited by grace, attended with heart
searching and repentance, backed by pressing danger, guaranteed as to
its answer, and containing a request for all mercies.
Verse 4. The praying of the deserted saint.
1. His state: his soul is
evidently in bondage and danger;
2. His hope: it is in the Lord's
return.
3. His plea: mercy only.
Verse 5. The final suspension of earthly service considered in
various practical aspects.
Verse 5. The duty of praising God while we live.
Verse 6. Saint's tears in quality, abundance, influence,
assuagement, and final end.
Verse 7. The voice of weeping. What it is.
Verse 8. The pardoned sinner forsaking his bad companions.
Verse 9. Past answers the ground of present confidence. He
hath, he will.
Verse 10. The shame reserved for the wicked.
WORKS UPON THE SIXTH PSALM
A Godly and Fruitful Exposition on the Sixt Psalme, the First of
the Penitentials; in a sacred Septenarie; or, a Godly and Fruitful
Exposition on the Seven Psalmes of Repentance. by MR. ARCHIBALD
SYMSON, late Pastor of the Church at Dalkeeth in Scotland. 1638.
Sermons on the Penetential Psalms, in "The Works of John
Donne, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's," 1621-1631. Edited by HENRY
ALFORD, M.A. In six volumes. 1839.
On Verse 6. The Sick Man's Couch; a Sermon preached before the
most noble Prince Henry, as Greenwich, Mar. 12., ann. 1604. by
THOMAS PLAYFERE. &c., in Playfere's Sermons.