CONTENTS We have here expressed the state and fervour of the soul towards God; suited strength and help is earnestly desired, and that upon the promise of the covenant. A Psalm of David. Psalms 25:1 We shall enjoy the spiritual sense of this beautiful Psalm still more if we behold Christ in it a... [ Continue Reading ]
These are blessed promises, and blessed encouragements, to those which wait upon the Lord. Isaiah 65:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
There is a beautiful order in these expressions; first to be shown, then to be taught, and then to be led, in the path of grace. How, blessed it is to have the Spirit to teach, the Spirit to lead, and Jesus himself to be the way. And all this because God in Christ is every poor sinner's salvation th... [ Continue Reading ]
These are all so many witnesses to the same blessed truth; and they all speak to the evidence of human wants, and divine faithfulness.... [ Continue Reading ]
There is a great singularity in this petition. Men, in their dealings with one another, plead, when they ask for forgiveness, either the slenderness of their offence, or that it hath not been repeated, or that the offender will not again trespass. But here the petition for mercy is founded upon the... [ Continue Reading ]
I do not interrupt the reading through the whole of these verses; their plain and obvious meaning they carry along with them. They bear a decided testimony to divine faithfulness, and man's necessities. And though the enemy of God's people doth wage open and secret war against God's heritage, yet Is... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER, let us never lose sight of Christ, as Jesus, the Christ of God and our appointed High Priest; in all the fervent prayers we meet with in the written word: for as we cannot pray profitably without his Spirit helping us, so neither can our prayers ever come up before God and our F... [ Continue Reading ]