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Excerpt from Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Vol. 6 of 6: Psalm CXXVI. CL
Psalm understood, and all proud men carry lofty necks, and not CXXIX' only do evil deeds, but even refuse to acknowledge them to be such, and when they are; rebuked, justify themselves (behold thou hast done this; at least acknowledge thine act: God hateth a sinner, do thou also hate one; join thyself unto God: persecute with Him thy sin. No, he replieth: I have done well, God hath done ill. What is this? I, he saith, have done no evil; for Saturn did this, Mars did it, Venus did it; I have done nothing, the stars have done it. Thou justifiest thyself, thou accusest God Who made the stars, \vho adorned the heaven therefore since thou justifiest thy sin, and art proud against God, because thou placest thyself out of fault, and God in fault, and hast only raised thy neck, and hast run against God, as it is written in Job, (he was speaking of an ungodly sinner, ) Job 15, he runneth against God, even upon his neck, upon the thick 26' bosses of his bucklers; and he here nameth the neck, because it is thus thou exaltest thyself, and dost not fix thine eyes upon the ground, and beat thy breast, and say, Lord, be 0 me a sinner, but boastest thyself in thy deserts, Jerem. And wishest, saith God, to plead with Me, to enter into 2' 99° judgment with Me; while thou shouldest in thy guilty state atone unto God, and cry unto Him, as it is cried in another Ps. 130, Psalm, If Thou, Lord, art actreme to mark what is amiss, 3' who may abide it? Shouldest cry unto Him, as it is cried in Ps.41,4. Another Psalm, 1 said, Lord, be merciful unto me, for I have sinned against Thee since thou dost not choose to say this, but justifiest thy deeds against the Word of God; what followeth in Scripture cometh upon thee: the righteous Lord shall hew the necks of sinners. Io. Ver. 5. Let them be confounded and turned back ward, as many as have evil will at Sion. They who hate Sion, hate the Church: Sion is the Church. And they who hypocritically enter into the Church, hate the Church. They who refuse to keep the Word of God, hate the Church: Upon my back have they built: what will the Church do, save endure the burden even unto the end? 11. Ver. 6. 7. But what saith he of them? The next words are, Let them be even as the grass of the house tops k Oxf. Mss. Add, 'i did not this, but the stars.'
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