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EXPOSITION.
"_For all his judgments were before me_." The word, the
character, and the actions of God should be evermore before our
eyes; we should learn, consider, and reverence them. Men forget
what they do not wish to remember, but the excellent attributes
of the Most High are objects of the believer's affectionate and
delighted admiration. We should keep the image of God so
constantly before us that we become in our measure conformed unto
it. This inner love to the right must be the main spring of
Christian integrity in our public walk. The fountain must be
filled with love to holiness, and then the streams which issue
from it will be pure and gracious. "_I did not put away his
statutes from me_." To put away the Scriptures from the mind's
study is the certain way to prevent their influencing the outward
conversation. Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles, and go on to
filthy garments.
EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS.
Verses 22,23.--An unsound soul will not take notice of
such a precept as opposeth his special sin; such a precept must
go for a blank, which the soul throws by, and will not think of,
but as conscience now and then puts him in mind of it, whether he
will or no. But it is not so with a man in whom sincerity is:
that precept which doth most oppose that sin to which he is most
inclined, he labours to obey as well as any other. An unsound
soul sets so many of God's statutes before him, as rulers to walk
by, as suits with himself and the times, and no more. Such
precepts as oppose his special corruptions, or displease the
times, and so expose him to suffering, these he baulks and puts
away, as David here saith, and calls them as the rotten Scribes
and Pharisees were wont to do, "least commandments," small things
not to be regarded; which rottenness Christ took up roundly in
those ironical words, "Whosoever shall break one of these least
commandments, shall be called the least in the kingdom of God."
Godly sincerity makes no difference of greatest and least between
the precepts of God, but sets all before a man as a rule to walk
by, and makes the soul laborious to observe all. "Then shall I
not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments."
#Ps 119:6|.--^Nicholas Lockyer, 1649.
HINTS TO PREACHERS.
Verse 22.--The need of considering sacred things, and the
wickedness of carelessly neglecting them.