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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 119:77
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Let thy tender mercies come unto me, etc.] (See Gill on “<19B941>Psalm 119:41”); that I may live; not merely corporeally; though corporeal life is a grant and favour, and the continuance of it; it is owing to the tender mercies of God that men are not consumed: but spiritually; the first principle of spiritual life is from the rich mercy and great love of God; his time of love is a time of life. Here it seems to design the lively exercise of grace, which is influenced, animated, and quickened by the love of God, as faith, hope, and love; or a living comfortably: without the love of God, and a view of it, saints look upon themselves as dead men, forgotten as they are, free among the dead, that are remembered no more; but in the favour of God is life; let but that be shown, let the tender mercies of God come in full flow into the soul, and it will be revived, and live comfortably; and such also shall live eternally, as the fruit and effect of the same love and favour; for thy law [is] my delight; or “delights” f1671; what he exceedingly delighted in, after the inward man, and yet could not live by it, without the mercy, love, and grace of God; (see <19B924>Psalm 119:24,47,70).
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