...word. In the 77th Psalm, what sad expostulations are these the Psalmist uses ! " Will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever ? Doth...gracious ? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?" But see how he corrects them, ver. 10 : Then I said, this is my infirmity, but I will remember the...

...cannot speak. Will the Lord cast me off for ever ? and will he be favourable no more f Is his promise clean gone for ever ? Doth his promise fail for evermore...gracious ? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ! Arid 1 said, This is my infirmity : but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High....

...Divine mercy, he would feelingly inquire, Will the Lord cast off for ever, and will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever, doth his...fail for evermore ? Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? On the answer to these strong interrogatories, all his hopes rested. The eternal God pitied his distress,...

...from rectitude ? With regard to the fornier, does it not equally put to us the affecting questions, " Will he be favorable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever ? Doth his promise fail for evermore ?" No : it is impossible. Who2 D ever shall attempt to persuade me that there can come a period when...

...good cause for this change of his proceeding ? Shall we suspect that his nature is entirely altered ? Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ? No ; let us say with the Psalmist, This is my injirmity ; but I will remember the 'works of the Lord....

...present ease, of good men, that he attends. When under the impatience of sorrow we exclaim, Hath he forgotten to be gracious ? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ? we recollect not in whose hands we are. His compassion is not diminished, when its operations are...

...heart, and my spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off for ever ? and will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever ? doth...gracious ? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ? Selah.- O Lord, open thou my lips ; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. Make me to hear joy...

...word. In the 77th Psalm, what sad expostulations are these the Psalmist uses! " Will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever ? Doth...gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?" But see how he corrects them, ver. 10 : Then I said, this is my infirmity, but I will remember the...

...Lord cast off for ever ? and will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever ? and doth his promise fail for evermore ? Hath God forgotten...gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ? Every word seems to be the voice of a soul supposing itself in the very brink of hell, and even already...

...sometimes of diffidence, sometimes of impatience, is high in his expostulations with God. Psalm Ixxvii. 9, Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ? And in Psalm Ixxiv. 1, Why hast thou cast us off for ever ? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep...