2. “I will not fear”— [It were presumptuous in the extreme for any one to use such an expression as this, if he looked only to an arm of flesh: for “of ourselves we have no sufficiency even to think a good thought:” but, with such a protector as the Lord Jesus, we may laugh all our enemies to scorn. We know how powerful, how subtle, how malignant is that “roaring lion that seeketh to devour us;” and we know that we are as weak and impotent in ourselves as sheep: but if David, a man like ourselves,
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