Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 51:18
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Psalms51:18
1. For whom is the prayer offered —for the church or Zion?
(a) Next to our own welfare we should seek the welfare of Zion.
(b) All should seek it by prayer.
2. For what is the prayer offered?
(a) The kind of good, not worldly or ecclesiastical, but spiritual.
(b) The measure of good. "In thy good pleasure." Thine own love to it, and what thou hast already done for it.
(c) The continuance of good. "Build, "etc. Its doctrines, graces, zeal.
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