...victory over it ¡ after revolving things in lus mind, this was the result of his thoughts. 1 TI ""RULY God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a JL clean heart : this I now Jirmly believe, and am determined 3 not to doubt the truth of it any more....

...son of Jessai. LXXIII. A Psalm by Asaph. 1 HOW good is God to Israel ! To such as are upright in 2 heart ! But as for me, my feet were almost gone : my steps 3 had well nigh slipped : for I envied the unrighteous? when I 4 saw the prosperity of sinners. For...

...knowledge of God's fiurfione, in dcxtroying of the wicked, and sustaining the righteous. A Psalm of Asaph. my commandments, and do them ; 4 Then I will give you rain in due 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone ; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at...

...considered the matter more deeply, and then he broke out into this meditation., say. ing, Ver. I . HTR UL T God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. ~\ I will never hereafter, whatsoever confusions I behold, question the justice of'God's providence,...

...his own mind, from the consideration of the prosperity of wicked men. He tells us, ver. 2 and 3, " As for me, my feet were almost gone ; my steps had well nigh slipt. For I was envious at the foolish, when 1 saw the prosperity of the wicked." In the 4th and following...

...LXXIIF. REPINING CURED. XHDLY God is good to Israel, erven to such as are of a clean heart. 2 But as tor me, my feet were almost gone ; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 5 They are not in trouble...

...grieve not the fcloly Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. f PsaL Ixxiii. 2. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well praise of any good we either are, have, or can do, to fortune *, idols '', ourselves ', or any other...

...wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they happy that deal very " treacherously ?" David also tells us : " but as for " me, my feet were almost gone ; my steps...for I was envious at the foolish, when " I saw the prosperity of the wicked," But Mgiat is more to be lamented is, that hereby the unhappy creature himself...

...effectual antidote to it cannot be devised, than this most instructive and beautiful Psalm affords. 1. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. This declaration seems to be the result of a long struggle in the mind of the Psalmist, between nature...

...grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. (fj Psal. 73. 2, 3. But as for me, my feet were almost gone: my steps had well nigh slipt. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wieked. (~g ) 1 Sam. 6. 7....