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I will rise now; I will immediately apply myself to seek him, without whom my bed can give me no rest nor comfort.
The city; the city of God, the church, in which Christ resides.
In the streets, and in the broad ways: not finding him in private prayer and meditation, I sought him in the places of public assemblies and ordinances; for the people frequently met together in the streets, not only for civil, but for religious ends, 2Ch_32:6 Neh_8:1,3,16 Pr 1:20,21 Lu 13:26.
I found him not; he saw fit still to delay the discoveries of his grace, partly, to chastise my former folly; partly, to try my sincerity and constancy; and partly, that he might be more welcome when he came to me.