From the additional notes to Charles Spurgeon's The Treasury of David, on Psalm 119
Verse 77. — Let thy tender mercies
come unto me, that I may live. If we mark narrowly we shall find that David
here seeks another sort of mercy than he sought before. For first he sought
mercy to forgive his sins; then he sought mercy to comfort him in his troubles;
now he seeks mercy to live, and sin no more. Alas, many seek the first mercy,
of remission; and the second mercy, of consolation in trouble, who are altogether
careless of the third mercy, to live well. It is a great mercy of God to amend
thy life: where this is not, let no man think he hath received either of the
former. It is a great mercy of God, which not only pardons evil that is done,
but strengthens us also to further good that we have not done; and this is the
mercy which here David seeks. — William Cowper.
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