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Reviving and advancement in reformation, being the ordinary consequent and effect of upright covenanting with the Lord, may be another motive and inducement thereunto; this appears both in personal and national covenanting In personal, Psal. cxix. 106 "I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments."
Psalms, cxix. 99. We learn, post, Oct. 29, that Robertson was cautious in his talk, though we see here that he had much more courage than the professors of Aberdeen or Glasgow. This was one of the points upon which Dr. Johnson was strangely heterodox. For, surely, Mr.
Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth; Thou hast the words of eternal life. Speak unto me for some consolation unto my soul, for the amendment of my whole life, and for the praise and glory and eternal honour of Thy Name. 1 Samuel iii. 9. Psalm cxix. 125. Exodus xx. 19. John vi. 68. How all the words of God are to be heard with humility, and how many consider them not
On the rule, the word of God, by which alone we must regulate all our actions; and this ought to be our meditation day and night, and all our study, as we see it was David's, and other holy men of God, their daily work, see Psal. i. and cxix.
David understood more than the ancients, because he kept God's precepts, Psal. cxix. 100. It were good and suitable at such a time, to be much in the fear of God, remembering what an one he is, and how hazardous it is to sin against him, by drinking in the least point of error.
Deiotarus was king or tetrarch of Galatia in Asia Minor, and had come to the assistance of Pompeius with a considerable force. Pompeius had given him Armenia the Less, and the title of King. It is placed among the Fragmenta Incerta CXIX. ed. The last sentence of this chapter is somewhat obscure, and the opinions of the critics vary as to the reading.
Yet he will, I trust, bring me to his tabernacle, his resting place." If the reader wish to understand this Cromwellian effusion, let him consult the Psalm cxix. in the Vulgate., or cxx. in the English translation. He says to the same correspondent, "You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh! I lived in and loved darkness, and hated light. I was a chief, the chief of sinners. This is true.
CERTAIN marked Scripture precepts and promises had such a singular influence upon this man of God, and so often proved the guides to his course, that they illustrate Psalm cxix. 105: "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And a light unto my path."
"Thy law is the truth." Psa. cxix. 142. "Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful." Psa. cxix. 138. "Lead me in thy truth and teach me." Psa. xxv. 5. "The word of our God shall stand forever." Isaiah xl. 8. "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away." Mark xiii. 31.
By these things, my friends by being brought low and made helpless, till ashamed of ourselves, and weary of ourselves, we lift up eyes and heart to God who made us, like lost children crying after a Father by these things, I say, we live, and in all these things is the life of our spirit. Psalm cxix. 89-96. For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
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