assaults were being overruled by the Lord, and were made to work for his good; so David, in the present verse, corrects himself by saying, “The Lord hath chastened me sore. My enemy struck at me that he might make me fall; but in very truth my gracious God was using him to chasten me that I might not fall. The enemy was moved by malice, but God was working by him in love to my soul. The second agent sought my ruin, but the Great First Cause wrought my education and establishment.” It is well to have