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Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 30:7

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Psalms30:7

(last clause). No verse can more plainly teach us that glorious and comforting truth on which the medieval writers especially love to dwell, that it is the looking, or not looking, of God upon his creature, that forms the happiness or the misery of that creature; that those secret springs of joy which sometimes seem to rise up of themselves, and with which a stranger intermeddleth not, are nothing but God's direct and immediate looking on us; while the sorrow for which we cannot assign any especial cause —call it melancholy, or low spirits, or by whatever other name —is nothing but his turning away his face from us. John Mason Neale.

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