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John Trapp on Psalms 22:2

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Psalms22:2

Verſ. 2. O my God, I cry in the day time, &c.] This was a ſore temptation, that his heartieſt prayers were not heard. This might have made him jealous of God; to have had hard conceits of him, and heavy conceits of himſelf. But ſaith hee in the following verſes, Thou art holy, and thy Name is to bee ſanctified, though I bee not gratified. And moreover, Others have called upon thee and have been heard, verſ. 4, 5. though I now for mine unworthineſſe am denyed. For I am a worm, and no man, Verſ. 6. Thus it puts him not off that hee is not heard, as others; but humbles him. It drives him not, (as is uſuall with carnall people in like caſe) to ſhifting courſes, as a dogg that hath loſt his Maſter will follow after any one for relief. A Chriſtian never prevaileth ſo little by his prayers, but that hee will take heart of grace, to come again to God. Silence, or ſad anſwers, do not utterly diſhearten him. Hee ceaſeth not wreſtling till hee hath wreſted the bleſſing out of Gods hand with Jacob; and gotten matter of praiſe for his prayers granted, as David here doth, ere he had done the Pſalm, verſ. 24, 25.

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