...commandment, 1 conceive is meant, the whole moral law. In this extensive sense the word is used, Psal. cxix. 96, " I have seen an end of all perfection ; but thy commandment is exceeding broad." Prov. vi. 23, " The commandment is a lamp, and the law is light." Rom. vii. 9, " I was alive without...

...commandments. And what was his success? Just the same as that of every other workman at this perfect rule ; " I have seen an end of all perfection, but thy commandment is exceeding broad," Psalm cxix. 96. He found it required perfection, and that perfection was not in him. The commandment...

...thy precepts. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me : S6 [but] I will consider thy testimonies. I have seen an end of all perfection : [but] thy commandment [is] exceeding broad. REFLECTION. • The history of David is an admirable paraphrase on the former' part of these verses^...

...is thy wisdom ; mind thy duty, and refer to him thy comfort. SE 11 MON XXI. ' PSAL. cxix. £)6'. / have seen an end of all perfection ; but thy commandment is exceeding broad. GRACE is a divine light in the soul, and shews the true colours of things. The Apostle overshoots not,...

...that I can scarce hold open mine eyes any longer. CXIX. 82 Mine eyes fail for thy word. CXIX. 96 / have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding large. CXIX. 83 I am become like a bottle in the smoke. I am dried up, and shrunk, and deformed and...

...deformed and wrinkled, with sorrow ; even as a bottle, that- is hanged up in the smoke. CXIX. 96 / have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding large. There is no earthly thing, be it never so excellent, but I have observed it subject to change...

...thy precepts. 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me : but I will consider thy testimonies. bread. MEM. 97 O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day. 98 Thou through thy commandments...

...conformable to the image of God, till we arrive at the perfection proposed to us in a life to come. I have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding broad," saith David, Psalm cxix. 96. No visible things are so perfect, that they are eternal and incorruptible...

...the fulfilling of the law," the whole ten commandments; and this the apostle takes from the Psalms; " I have seen an end of all perfection, but thy commandment is exceeding broad," Psalm cxix.96. From hence Paul takes it; and David says, it is the commandment, and it is exceeding...

...these two are contrary. And the more they know of themselves, the more ready they are to confess, " I have seen an end of all perfection, but thy commandment is exceeding broad." " O wretehed man that I am, who shall deliver me ? " "I have not already attained, nor am I already...