432 APPENDIX. 



large extent : yet, as if he had been banished to 

 the Antipodes, From the ends of the earth, saith 

 he, have I cried unto thee, Psal. Ixi. 2. Though 

 his devotion consecrated every place he came 

 into ; turned the cave into a chapel, and the 

 wilderness of Judah into holy ground ; and I had 

 almost said, even Gath of the Philistines into a 

 holy city ; (for v^e have Psalms dated from every 

 one of these ;) yet still he sighs. Oh restore me. 

 Oh bring me. Oh set me up upon a rock that is 

 higher than I : he means, without doubt, the Hill 

 of Sion, the Pico of Jewry, where God's house 

 was established upon the tops of the mountains^ 

 as the prophet speaks, Isa. ii. 2. 



Men, and brethren, you that make up the more 

 popular part of this mixed audience ; let me freely 

 speak to you of the Patriarch David, and of your- 

 selves. Blessed be the mercies of God, you lie 

 under no such restraint, or interdict, as he did : 

 you are not banished into the wilderness, nor 

 shut up in the cave : the doors of God's house 

 stand open to you, if you please ; and the wings 

 of his mercy are stretched out wide to invite, and 

 receive you; would you but come in, and put 

 yourselves under the shadow of them. Let it not 

 be said, that your curiosity, or some worse hu- 

 mour, leads you quite another way : that you are 

 over careful, and troubled about many things, 

 which belong not to you, while you neglect the 

 one thing necessary, the great duty of this, and 

 of every day ; namely, to implore God's mercy 



