_For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob_
GOD’S MERCY AND ISRAEL’S CONVERTS
I. THE PRINCIPLE OF GOD’S MORAL GOVERNMENT--Mercy. This people had
grievously sinned.
1. They had sinned against light. The direct revelation of heaven had
been given to them as a nation
2. They rebelled amid privileges. T... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow_
SORROW’S CROWN
I. SORROW IS THE COMMON LOT. Though nobody is always sorrowful, there
is in every life many a time when the mind is sore and the heart
bruised. Yet people with a sore heart often sing; they find relief in
breathing a hymn of prayerful t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon_
THE “PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON”
Lowth is generally thought not to speak with exaggeration when he
calls it the finest [song] of its kind extant in any language.
It is a song of triumph in the form of a dirge, and therefore in... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hell from beneath is moved for thee_
THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES AFTER DEATH
There is a very well-known story told of a man who had served his king
and country in many a distant land, and in many a strange experience,
coming back home, and talking to his friends of the wonderful sights
which he had se... [ Continue Reading ]
_Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass_
GOD’S INFINITE INTELLIGENCE
To think and to purpose are the attributes of all rational beings,
whether created or uncreated.
I. God is such an infinitely perfect being, that His thoughts and
purposes are CO-ETERNAL WITH HIMSELF. God cannot poss... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina_
PHILISTIA
Philistia was the southwest coast of the land of Canaan, to the whole
of which it afterwards gave its name in the Greek form of Palestine,
and was nominally included in the tribe of Judah.
It was originally inhabited by the Avites, who were expelled b... [ Continue Reading ]
_What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation?_
GOD’S WORK IN FOUNDING ZION
The kingdom of Judah was low and broken; foreign invasions and
intestine divisions had made it so. In this state of things God takes
notice of the joy and triumphing of the Philistines. To take them off
from the... [ Continue Reading ]