WAITING ON GOD. 363 a state of alienation from God. Sec on this point the other treatise referred to. 2. Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to il; be that ever so great, if this be good, be that ever so restless and powerful, if this be sincere, yet, though you may be disqUieted, you can have no reason to despond. I have mentioned these things only to give a speci- men of the objections which men usually raise against an actual closing with forgiveness to their consolation : and have also given some rules for their relief, not in- tending in them absolute satisfaction as to the whole of the cases mentioned, but only so to remove the dark- ness raised by them that it may not hinder any from mixing with faith the word dispensed from this blessed testimony, that " there is forgiveness with God, that he may be feared." CHAPTER XVII. EARNEST WAITING ON GOD, THE FRUIT OF FORGIVENESS.-,-- NATURE OF TIIIS DUTY. We now proceed to the second part of this Psalm, which contains the deportment of a sin-perplexed soul, when by faith it has discovered where its rest lies, and from whom its relief is to be expected, even the for-
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