...loving-kindnefs, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my tranfgreffions." " Behold, O God, our Shield, and look upon the face of thine Anointed." In meditating on this fubject, let us learn to forbear from exercifing this dread prerogative of the...

...communion with God, than in days and months of sinful indulgence. We can say with David, ': A day in thy courts is better than a thousand ; I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness." A good hope through grace, a knowledge...

...Ghost hath left upon record, for the use of the Church in all ages, and say, as you are there taught ; behold O God our shield and look upon the face of thine anointed, f But the subject suggested to us in the text doth not end with prefiguring the Redeemer in his complete...

...fainteth for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God."- — " For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness §." If these were the feelings and desires...

...give ear, O GoJ of Jacob." Look with pity on the darkness of my soul, now banished from thy house; " for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather be only a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell" in state and splendour " in the teats of...

...loving-kindness, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions." " Behold, O God, our Shield, and look upon the face of thine Anointed." In meditating on this subject, let us learn to forbear from exercising this dread prerogative of the...

...tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts ! Blessed are they that dwell in thy house ; they will be still praising thee. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand : I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." Ps. xxvii. 4. xxxiv. 4. 11. Here it...

...covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, "that speaketh better things than that of Abel."f You cry, " behold, O God our shield, and look " upon the face of thine anointed !" And you are im mediately enabled to add, " a day in thy courts " is better than a thousand.''J But,...

...sometimes has in God, he prefers far before all the pleasures of sin, Psalm Ixxxiv. 10. " A day in thy courts is better than a thousand : I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." A saint thus prefers God before all things...

...in their own minds. He expresses the highest regard for the worship of God, when he says, " A day in thy courts is better than a thousand: I had rather be a door-keeper," or I had rather sit. upon the door threshold, I had rather sit in the lowest' place, or be employed...