Psalms 59

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM LIX.—Firm faith of our new covenant interest in God encourages to bold supplications in a day of trouble. None can destroy if he defend us. Though none be innocent before God, they may be so before men; at least with respect to particular crimes. And such innocence, though it cannot protect us from evil men, may encourage our appeals to God for redress. It is common for sinners to think that God overlooks their wickedness; but the awful punishment thereof will make them know that he observed it. If we wait on God, and depend on his mercy, we are sure of preservation in trials, and even of prevention with favours. But how dreadful is their danger against whom the prayers of Christ and his people ascend! The tongue defiled with slander, cursing, and falsehood, will quickly burn in endless fire. The punishment which God inflicts on men, correspondent to their sins, will force them to know his existence and government: and the sufferings of Jesus Christ, and his people, shall at last issue in everlasting honours, triumphs in their God, and praises for his mercy and kindness