Psalms 40:1,2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I cannot but imagine that we sadly overlook the design of God the Holy Ghost in this most sublime Psalm, when we apply any part or portion of it to David king of Israel. That David was an eminent type of Christ in many instances, there can be no doubt; but never as a sacrifice; and here Christ is represented wholly in that character. Observe how the Psalm opens. Here is the mire and the clay, the wormwood and the gall. And here is the patient sufferer calling out from thence, and still staying himself with humble waitings on his Father. Now who that reads Christ's agony in the garden, and hears his dolorous cry, when his soul was exceeding sorrowful, even unto death, can look at these things without being struck with the vast similarity? Who that recollects what the apostle hath said concerning Christ, that when in the days of his flesh he offered up strong crying and tears, and was heard in that he feared, can hesitate in concluding that the prediction and the history are one? Hebrews 5:7.