12 FORGIVENESS OF SIN. be, that you shall be delivered from the guilt of all your sins, and the perplexities of all your troubles. My design in the ensuing treatise is to illustrate the teaching of the Holy Ghost in this Psalm, as express- ing, in the experience of the Psalmist and the working of his faith, the state of a soul in itself greatly perplexed relieved through Divine grace and acting towards God and his saints suitably to the displays of that grace: a great designand full of great instruction. To be more particular, we have THE STATE OF THE DISTRESSED SOUL. " Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord." HIS APPLICATION TO GOD ALONE FORRELIEF. "Lord, hear my voice, let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications." HIS DEPRECATION OF GOD'S JUSTICE. "If thou, Lord, shouldest marls iniquities, 0 Lord, who shall stand i" THE RELIEF FOUND IN GOD'S MERCY. " But there is for- giveness with Thee, that thou mayest be feared." THE ACTING OF HIS FAITH TOWARDS GOD. "I wait for the Lord, my soul dots, wait, and in his word do I trust. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning, I say more than they that watch for the morning." And The acting of his faith TOWARDS THE SAINTS. " Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities." The Lord, in mercy, so dispose of these meditations, that both he that writes and they that read may be made partakers of the benefit, relief and consolation in- tended for his saints, in this psalm, by the Holy Ghost.
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