If I regard iniquity in my heart, the LORD will not hear _me_:
_But_ verily God hath heard _me_; he hath attended to the voice of my
prayer.
Blessed _be_ God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy
from me.
This is a general thanksgiving, for God’s having rescued and delivered
his people so often out of the hands of their enemies, and out of the
very jaws of death itself; as he did at the Red Sea. The Books of
Judges and Kings are full of these deliverances.
These deliverances are no less great and wonderful, at this day, in
the church, when God delivers those that fear him out of temptations,
both internal and external. For Satan, of whom that earthly Pharaoh
was so especial a type, being inflamed with so horrible a desire of
distressing and destroying, daily persecutes the church: and he would,
if he could, so harm every single one of the godly, and so beset them
on every side, that they should see nothing but death, and an angry
God: out of all these things, however, God delivers his own.