Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

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Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

away the gentle method of treatment, he prefers from then on to use a knife. Therefore, God loves mercy in the case of those repenting, but he also loves judgment in the case of the unyielding. And on those whose hope is in his unfailing love (v. 18). The humility of those who serve the Lord indicates how they hope in his mercy. He who does not trust in his own good deeds nor expects to be justified by his works has, as his only hope of salvation, the mercies of God.