Psalms 125:1
CONTENTS This Psalm is a very proper supplement to the former, for it celebrates the divine goodness in defending his people, and securing them from their enemies. A Song of Degrees.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS This Psalm is a very proper supplement to the former, for it celebrates the divine goodness in defending his people, and securing them from their enemies. A Song of Degrees.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sacred writers all delight in using strong images and figures, by which to represent divine things: as in this instance, God's covenant engagements in Christ are compared to strong mountains, the mountains of Jerusalem, fixed and immoveable. His promises indeed are all of this kind: yea and amen... [ Continue Reading ]
This is a precious scripture to prove how the Lord watcheth over his people for good, and by his preventing and restraining grace knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, 2 Peter 2:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
The prayer of the faithful, and the prospect of the ruin of the ungodly, are strikingly blended in one view. The same scripture that promiseth to feed his people, declares that their enemies shall be hungry. See a string of rich and blessed promises to this amount, Isaiah 65:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS MY soul! contemplate in this Psalm the security of the Lord's people, and beg of thy gracious God to give thee, an everlasting, steady, and unshaken faith in him. Thou hast been sweetly taught, that there is nothing to be depended upon but Jesus: and having, through grace, made a covena... [ Continue Reading ]