...yet prays, " Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions" (Psalm xxv. 7). And Job, " For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth" (chap. xiii. 26). Old bruises may trouble us long after, upon every change of weather, and new afflictions...

...his innocence : and yet, to our surprise, we hear him, in one place, thus expostulating with GOD : Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the INIQUITIES OF MY YOUTH.f This can be accounted for no otherwise than by understanding it of the PEOPLE : whose repeated...

...Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro ? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? 26 For tbou writes! bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. 2!) And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as...

...past. These are the scourges of God, which have followed me afar off, and now have overtaken me. " Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the sins of my youth."1 2. Again, past sins follow after sinners in the active power by which they still...

...sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust." And how many, like Job, will complain, "Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth." In the case of Absalom, these reflections possess a melancholy truth ; for his history, from the murder...

...the crook of his lot, some false steps he had made in his youth many years before, Job. xiii. 26. " Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my yonth." Fourthly, Correetion or punishment for sin. In nothing more than in the crook of the lot is...

...always been the source of my miseries, a misery boundless and eternal ! " For thou writest bitter thjngs against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth."* See what the expiring sinner finds in the remembrance of the past — crimes which shall endure forever,...

...and mercy to come. Observe, then, that this bitterness also came from a broken law. Hence he says, " Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth." It is the moral law which, as Paul says, is against us all, and contrary to us, because it calls for...

...Thine enemy ? Wilt Thou break a leaf driven to and fro ? and wilt Them pursue the dry stubble ? For h + Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths ; Thou scttest a print...

...have nothing left to offer to God, but a diseased body, and an enfeebled mind. We find Job exclaiming, Thou writest bitter things against me. and makest me to possess the sins of my youth, that is, to feel their bitter consequences. David also prays, that God would not...