CONTENTS
The church is here described as under great affliction. The burden of
the complaint is to this effect; the Psalmist looks up to the throne
for deliverance, and makes use of the strong plea of God's
faithfulness for his support, and expresses his dependence on the
divine mercy.
A Psalm of... [ Continue Reading ]
It is not distinctly marked, by any parallel part of the history of
the church, to what period this desolation refers. As the prophet
Jeremiah who lived and ministered in the church about the time of the
Babylonish captivity, hath a parallel passage in his prophecy, it is
probable that the Psalmist... [ Continue Reading ]
This forms a sweet prayer. The Holy Ghost puts a number of those how
longs in the heart of the earliest praying believer. The kingdom of
God is taken by violence.... [ Continue Reading ]
Many of the prayers we meet with of this kind are more to be
considered in the form of prophecy, than of imprecation: they meant to
say that God will pour out the vials of his wrath upon prayerless
persons and families, agreeably to his divine declaration, Psalms
11:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
These prayers are evidently dictated by the Holy Ghost, because they
are founded on God's promises. See Isaiah 43:25; Ezekiel 36:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is another most glorious argument for the church, or the sinner s
to take to the mercy-seat; and furnishes another testimony that it is
dictated by the Spirit of God. Joshua 7:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is a blessed additional prayer of faith. Are not all sinners, as
sinners, appointed to death? But when the Lord puts a cry and a sigh
in their souls for sin, and directs the eye of faith to the blood and
righteousness of Jesus; what are these but so many earnests of the
Spirit? Ezekiel 9:4; Psa... [ Continue Reading ]
What is here spoken by way of prayer, is also to be considered as the
language of faith. The Lord will recompense the wrongs of his people
upon their enemies; and the Lord will secure the salvation of the
just: they are his redeemed, and whoso toucheth them, toucheth the
apple of his eye. Sweet cons... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
READER! do not fail, from the perusal of this short but sweet Psalm,
to remark how the church hath been exercised from age to age, and what
a correspondence there is, and ever hath been, between the faithful in
their experience all the way along. Yes! blessed Jesus! the exercises
of thy... [ Continue Reading ]