FEAR GOD & HOPE IN HIS MERCY!
"But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared." -Psalm 130:4 [KJV] My soul, this is a golden psalm, and every portion of it more ponderous in value than the choicest gold of Ophir; and this verse is as the tried gold, to ascertain the purity and value of all the rest. The cries of a truly broken heart, from the depth of sin to the depth of divine mercy, with which the psalm opens, prove the work of the Holy Ghost, imparting the words with which the humbled soul comes before the Lord. And the blessed consolations which this verse contains, in the view of the mercy-seat, and the mercy there (which is all-precious Jesus, the first-born in the womb of mercy; yea, mercy itself) as plainly prove the leadings of the Holy Ghost to Gim, who alone can say, "Oh Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in Me is thy help!" Ponder, my soul, these precious words: "But there is forgiveness with Thee." Is it not as if thou wert to say to thy God and Fat...