13. For great is thy mercy toward me. Personal
experience is ever the master singer. Whatever thou art to others, to me thy
mercy is most notable. And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
David had been kept by God, for his enemies would have done more than send him
to hell had they been able. His sense of sin also made him feel as if the most
overwhelming destruction would have been his portion had not grace prevented.
There are some alive now who can use this language unfeignedly, and he who pens
these lines most humbly confesses that he is one. Left to myself to indulge my
passions, to rush onward with my natural vehemence, what a candidate for the
lowest abyss should I have made myself by this time.
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