Psalms 143:1
CONTENTS The Psalmist is still at his devotions, pouring out his soul under afflictions, and seeking strength against his enemies. A Psalm of David.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS The Psalmist is still at his devotions, pouring out his soul under afflictions, and seeking strength against his enemies. A Psalm of David.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is beautiful to observe, how the holy pleader begs for deliverance upon the footing of God's righteousness. Jesus, when he stood as the sinner's surety, did this: and in his name all his people do the same. Acts 4:12. God's righteousness, as well as God's grace, becomes the plea, when a soul hath... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus might yet thus complain, because when he stood forth in our stead, he felt all that it was our due to have felt, had he not interposed. The temptations of Satan were harassing to his holy soul, so that his spirit was overwhelmed. And above all, the Father's desertion, though but for a season,... [ Continue Reading ]
It is very sweet and blessed; under present troubles, to call to remembrance former mercies. Asaph found this, Psalms 77:3. Hence that sweet promise, Genesis 22:14. Reader, let you and I look back, under any new troubles, to past deliverances, and behold the many Ebenezers which we have set up, that... [ Continue Reading ]
Here are the same hopes, the same confidences, and the same acts of faith, which all the other parts of the believer's supplications carry with them, that the issue shall be prosperous. And to those who view Christ as the foundation on which those hopes are built, the issue will never be doubtful. J... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER, do pause to mark the blessedness of that state, which can look up and plead for justification before God, upon the sole authority of God's covenant, and the person and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. As Jesus himself pleaded both these, so hath he taught his people to do... [ Continue Reading ]