...ready to promise, when we are in danger, but often forgetful to perform, when delivered out of it. 176. ' I have gone astray like a lost sheep: seek...thy servant ; for I do not forget thy commandments.' It is doubtful, whether David here speaks of his misery, or his sin ; of his ' wandering,' as an exile...

...library of expositions. It was in one of these seasons of retirement that David put up this petition, I have gone astray like a lost sheep : seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments. He seems to have had in his thoughts the condition of a poor, wandering sheep, that had left the flock,...

...library of expositions. It was in one of these seasons of retirement that David put up this petition, I have gone astray like a lost sheep : seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments. He seems to have had in his thoughts the condition of a poor, wandering sheep, that had left the flock,...

...library of expositions. " ' It was in one of these seasons of retirement that David put up this petition, I have gone astray like a lost sheep ; seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments. He seems to have had in his thoughts the condition of a poor wandering sheep, that had left the flock...

...and receive me graciously." He is encouraged by examples, and is taught by the Holy Spirit, to say, " I have gone astray like a lost sheep, seek thy servant ; for I do not forget thy commandments ;" — " Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me...

...law is my delight. 175. Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee ; and let thy judgments help me. 176. I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for 1 do not forget thy commandments. PSALM CXX. 34. Prayer and complaint of David, on the calumnies industriously...

...law is my delight. 1 75 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee ; and let thy judgments help me. 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant ; for I do not forget thy commandments. SECTION VI. Malachi Prophesies against the Corruptions which had been introduced during the Second...

...as a lost shecp," but they groan under the propensity, and pray to be brought back again by God. " I have gone astray like a lost sheep ; seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments." Not only do they get out of the path of God's revealed way, but they are sorry for it, and cry to be...

...hand. 1 family. Pit. z MAT. iv. 16 : Galilee of the Gentiles. h See on JOHN, iv. 5, 9, 20. ' Ps. cxix. 176 : I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments. ISA. liii. 6: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way ; and the...

...renewed grace : and in the strength of it labour to return. Cry with David, under the like guilt, " I have gone astray like a lost sheep ; seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments;" (Psalm cxix. 176.) and that remembrance of them is, I hope, a token for good. But if thou wilt return...