13. Return, O Lord, howlong? Come in mercy to us again. Do not leave us to perish. As sin drives God
from us, so repentance cries to the Lord to return to us. When people are under
chastisement they are allowed to expostulate, and ask, how long? Our
fault in these times is not too great boldness with God, but too much
backwardness in pleading with him. And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. They had rebelled, but they had not utterly forsaken the Lord;
they owned their obligations to obey his will, and pleaded them as a reason for
pity. Will a man not spare his own servants? Though God smote Israel, yet they
were his people, and he had never disowned them; therefore is he intreated to
deal favorably with them.
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