CONTENTS We have here the church, under a cloud, and in this state appealing to the Lord, in the recollection of former deliverances, for present mercy. It forms an interesting subject, though we are not told to what period of the church it refers, or by whom it was written. To the chief Musician... [ Continue Reading ]
It is one of the best and strongest of all arguments, when pleading for the renewals of divine love, to put the Lord in remembrance of past mercies. It is as if we should say. Shall we despond now, when the Lord hath blessed so often? Shall our hope fail when God's mercies fail not? Reader! think wh... [ Continue Reading ]
What an unanswerable appeal this is for success in player! If God be our king, will he not help and defend his own subjects? And, if we use the same argument in a gospel sense; if Jesus be our Redeemer and hath bought us with his blood, will he not have an eye to his own property? What a charming en... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is a melancholy state described: and what added to the affliction, the church beheld the Lord's hand in the appointment. Though the Lord's afflictions are always, sooner or later, sanctified afflictions to God's people, yet when the Lord frowns in his providences, the dark cloud is heavier.... [ Continue Reading ]
What the church, or an individual of the church here complains of, is among the painful exercises of all true followers of Christ. When our God is reproached, and when our confidence in him is derided; or when the enmity takes advantage of the exercises of the faithful, and crieth out, Where is now... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle seems to have had this scripture in his view, and referred it to the times in which he lived, when, after pointing out the heavy afflictions the church then endured, he quotes a part of this very passage, Romans 8:36. And it is beautiful and encouraging to remark, how contemptuously the... [ Continue Reading ]
These are the strong cries of faith: not that the Lord sleepeth, or is an inattentive spectator to the exercises of his redeemed: He seeth and knoweth all. The great Shepherd of Israel neither slumbereth nor sleepeth. Psalms 121:4. Reader, mark it as a certain thing - The enemies of God and his Chri... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER, how sweet and blessed is it, in all our exercises; to keep in view the faithfulness of a Covenant-God in Christ. By turning back to the proofs of God's faithfulness to his church, in all ages that are past, and by having recourse to the evidences we ourselves have had of the same... [ Continue Reading ]