14. We must not overlook David’s object in desiring God’s
mercy: it is God’s glory. Saints are not so selfish as to look only to self;
they admire mercy’s diamond that they may let others see it flash and sparkle.
The contrast between the gates of death and the gates of the New
Jerusalem is very striking; let our songs be excited to the highest and most
rapturous pitch by the double consideration of whence we are taken, and to what
we have been advanced, and let our prayers for mercy be made more energetic by a
sense of the grace which such a salvation implies. When David speaks of his
showing forth all God’s praise, he means that, in his deliverance, grace
in all its heights and depths would be magnified.
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