best of the best? 159. Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. It is a fair argument; as a friend may say to another, “Consider how I love you”; as a child might say to his angry father when he is about to chasten him, “My father, I love you, although I have transgressed; look at my heart, and see how I love you, notwithstanding all the mistakes of my character, and even the faults that I have committed. 160, 161. Thy word is true from the beginning: