CONTENTS The Psalmist is here again at the throne or grace, praising God for past mercies, and preferring petitions for future favors. In singing or reading this Psalm, it will be profitable to have an eye to Christ. To the chief Musician on Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. The title of this Psalm... [ Continue Reading ]
We shall enter into a full and clear apprehension of the scope and design of this Psalm, if we first consider how it is to be read with an eye to Christ, and then how it may be accommodated to those, who, through faith in Christ, have an interest in all that concerns him as Mediator. The Psalm opens... [ Continue Reading ]
Was there ever a prophecy more pointed than this, or ever an event more strikingly fulfilled, than when Christ's enemies came to apprehend him in the garden, and Jesus, by a word speaking, caused them to go backward, and fall upon their faces to the earth? Was there ever an instance, in the annals o... [ Continue Reading ]
Were ever words plainer than these, to teach us that it is Jesus thus addressing the Father, acknowledging the Father's fulfillment of all covenant engagements, in supporting the manhood of Christ in all the seasons of his encountering with his enemies? And, Reader, may not all the people of Jesus i... [ Continue Reading ]
Is not this spoken of one particular foe more than others? And of whom so probably as Satan? And how beautiful is it, in the victories of our Jesus, by his blood and righteousness, to behold Satan and sin, and death and hell, and the grave, with all that empire of destruction, brought to a final end... [ Continue Reading ]
Here, by a change of person in the speaker, we find a beautiful transition made to Christ himself, in which the sacred writer is celebrating the glories of his person, and the greatness, and extensiveness, and everlasting duration of his kingdom, and by contrasting his monarchy to that of all create... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is a call to the whole Church to join in praises to Jehovah, and that particularly, for that he resides in the person of the Mediator, in the midst of his people. The tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them. Revelation 21:3. Sweet, thought! what can destroy, what can hurt, or... [ Continue Reading ]
How blessed and consolatory the thought to the martyrs of Jesus, and to all his persecuted little ones, is this consideration. Hence they are represented, under the altar of heaven, as making a response to this and the like promises. Revelation 6:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
It should seem as if this formed a second part of the Psalm, or rather a new one. Here we behold Christ again, as before represented in the days of his flesh, with strong crying, and tears. God the Father had promised that he should not fail nor be discouraged, until that he had set judgment in the... [ Continue Reading ]
Is not this one of the well-known offices of the Mediator? Was it not said of him, under the spirit of prophecy, the king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord, and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice t Psalms 21:1. Hence, therefore, it is one of the blessed offices of our great Head and Savio... [ Continue Reading ]
What a sure destruction must overtake all the enemies of God and of his Christ. In this life misery, and the evils they intend for others, falling upon themselves; and in that which is to come, everlasting destruction. It should seem that the word Higgaion joined to Selah, was intended as if to make... [ Continue Reading ]
This is a sweet promise for a thousand occasions, and when pleaded before the throne in his name who comprehends in himself every promise, and is indeed himself the great Promise of the Bible, it will be found, like all others, yea and amen.... [ Continue Reading ]
These are blessed prayers, when put up in faith, by which we invite Jesus to hasten his coming, and bring on both the latter day glory, and that kingdom of his everlasting reign, which shall have no end. Reader, what say you to that holy longing of the Church, which, when Jesus speaks of his return,... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS BLESSED Redeemer! let me, as often as I peruse this Psalm, learn to celebrate thy triumphs, and to keep my eye and heart stedfastly fixed on thee, that I may hear with the ear of faith, and catch an holy flame from the devout song, while thou art praising Jehovah, for all the blessings... [ Continue Reading ]