SUPPORT FROM FORGIVENESS. 111 mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope." Lam. 3: 29. What God will, is his language. Here he lies at his disposal, humble, broken, but abiding his pleasure. "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him." Job, 13: 15. " However he deals with me ; whatever be the event, I will abide, cleaving unto him. I will not think of any oser way of extricating myself from my dis- tress. I will neither fly, like Jonah, nor hide, like Adam, nor take any other course for deliverance." Saith the soul, God is a God that hideth himself from me. Isaiah, 45: 15. "I walk in darkness, and have no light," chap. 1: 10. "My flesh faileth, and my heart faileth," Psalm 73: 26 ; so that I am overwhelmed with trouble : " Mine iniquities have taken such hold on me that I cannot look up." Psalm 40 : 12. " The Lord hath forsaken me, and my God hath forgotten me." Isa. 49:14. Every day am I in dread and terror, and am ready to faint, and no relief can I obtain. What then shall I do 1 Shall I curse God, and die 1 Shall I take the course of the world, and, judging it will be no bet- ter, be wholly regardless of my latter end 1 No, I know, whatever my lot and portion be, that there is forgive- ness with God. This and that poor man trusted in him, they cried unto him, and were delivered. David, in his greatest distress, " encouraged his heart in the Lord his God." 2 Sam. 15 : 25, 26. It is good for me to cast myself into his arms; it may be he will frown ; it may be he is wroth still ; but to him I will go ; as it seems good to him to deal with me, so let it be. And unspeakable are the, advantages which a soul obtains by this self -resignation, which the faith treated of will infallibly produce. 2. It extends itself to a resolution of wailing on God. This the church comes to : " It is good that a man should both hope, and quietly wait, for the salvation of the Lord." Lam. 3: 26. I will not give over my expec-
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