Psalms 6

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM VI.—Not even kings are exempted from the common miseries of life! But it is hard to support under sore sickness and a wounded spirit at once: and yet God’s dearest saints have often the largest shares of them. There is no relief under such a burden, but to cast it on God. And when our sins have been great, so must be our sorrow. The removal of the sense of God’s displeasure must be more earnestly desired than abatement of, or relief from, our sufferings. And, if God ever regard us, it is neither for our righteousness, nor for our sorrows or sufferings, but for his mercy in Christ. However desirable it is to be with Christ in heaven, saints are to wish for life while it is for the glory of God and the good of his church.—But quickly they, who sow in tears shall reap in joy. And, if God answer one prayer, he will answer all that follow in faith. He is the same hearer of prayer yesterday, to-day, and for ever. But close fellowship with God effectually draws the saints from delight in, or intimacy with, the wicked: and quick and inevitable ruin awaits their impenitent injurers