47. Remember how short my time is. If thine
anger burn on it will outlast this mortal life, and then there will be no time
for thy mercy to restore me. Some expositors ascribe these words, and all the
preceding verses, to the state of the Lord Jesus in the days of his
humiliation, and this gives an instructive meaning; but we prefer to continue
our reference all through to the church, which is the seed of the Lord Jesus,
as the succeeding kings were the seed of David. We, having transgressed, are
made to feel the rod, but we pray the Lord not to continue his stripes lest our
whole life be passed in misery. Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
If the Lord do not shine upon his work we live for nothing—we count it no
longer life if his cause does not prosper. Creation is a blot, providence an
error, and our own existence a hell, if the faithfulness of God can fail and
his covenant of grace can be dissolved. If the Gospel system can be disproved,
nothing remains for us which can render existence worth the having.
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