19–20. For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary, or “leaned from the high place of his holiness.” From heaven did the Lord behold the earth. The Lord does not look upon mankind to note the doings of
their nobles, but to hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death. The groans of those in prison are very horrible to
hear, yet God bends to hear them: those who are bound for death are usually ill
company, yet Jehovah deigns to stoop from his greatness to relieve their
extreme distress and break their chains. This he does by providential rescues,
by restoring health to the dying, and by finding food for the famishing; and
spiritually this deed of grace is accomplished by sovereign grace, which
delivers us by pardon from the sentence of sin, and by the sweetness of the
promise from the deadly despair which a sense of sin had created within us.
Well may those of us praise the Lord who were once the children of death, but
are now brought into the glorious liberty of the children of God. The Jews in
captivity were in Haman’s time appointed to death, but their God found a way of
escape for them, and they joyfully kept the feast of Purim in memorial thereof;
let all souls that have been set free from the crafty malice of the old dragon
magnify the Lord of infinite compassion.
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