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EXPOSITION.
"_He brought me forth also into a large place_." After
pining awhile in the prison-house Joseph reached the palace, and
from the cave of Adullam David mounted to the throne. Sweet is
pleasure after pain. Enlargement is the more delightful after a
season of pinching poverty and sorrowful confinement. Besieged
souls delight in the broad fields of the promise when God drives
off the enemy and sets open the gates of the environed city. The
Lord does not leave his work half done, for having routed the foe
he leads out the captive into liberty. Large indeed is the
possession and place of the believer in Jesus, there need be no
limit to his peace, for there is no bound to his privilege. "_He
delivered me, because he delighted in me_." Free grace lies at
the foundation. Rest assured, if we go deep enough, sovereign
grace is the truth which lies at the bottom of every well of
mercy. Deep sea fisheries in the ocean of divine bounty always
bring the pearls of electing, discriminating love to light. Why
Jehovah should delight in us is an answerless question, and a
mystery which angels cannot solve; but that he does delight in
his beloved is certain, and is the fruitful root of favours as
numerous as they are precious. Believer, sit down, and inwardly
digest the instructive sentence now before us, and learn to view
the uncaused love of God as the cause of all the loving-kindness
of which we are the partakers.
HINTS TO PREACHERS.
Verse 19.--The reason of grace, and the position in which
it places its chosen ones.