So a man may know when his soul murmurs, and his fretting is against God himself, or against the instrument of the sinful discouragement of his soul, being over much cast down. Here is no true humiliation, but abundance of corruption, which brings vexation and disquietments. But I hasten to that which I have further to deliver, ‘Why art thou so cast down, O my soul?’ He doth check himself because he was thus cast down and disquieted. Here, then, you see, 1, David’s perplexity; and, 2, the particular
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