Psalms 125:4

Psa 125:4 Do good, O LORD, unto [those that be] good, and [to them that are] upright in their hearts.

Ver. 4. Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good ] But afflicted by those men of thy hand, Psalms 17:14 , who are the rod in thine hand, Isaiah 10:5 . Do good in thy good pleasure (for nothing can be claimed by the very best) to such, according to thy promise, Psalms 125:3 , which here I put in suit for them; let the Lord be with the good, 2 Chronicles 19:11 .

And to them that are upright in their hearts ] For such only are good indeed, and approved in Christ, as was Apelles, Romans 16:10 , and Nathanael, John 1:47 , notwithstanding their infirmities. Hypocrisy imbaseth the purest metal, turneth gold into rusty iron; sincerity doth the contrary by a divine kind of alchemy.