Psalms 16:1 That we may see the wondrous blessedness of this mighty gift of God Himself, given by Himself to us, let us investigate one simple question: Wherein does true happiness consist? I. Is it not above all in that which, in the highest sense of the word, we may call rest? This is no inactiv... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 16:3 The history of mankind, whether secular or religious, resolves itself ultimately into the history of a few individuals. God carries out His work of continuous redemption by the energy of the chosen few. Into their hearts He pours the power of His Spirit; upon their heads He lays the han... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 16:5 I. The first thought that comes out of the words before us is this: All true religion has its very heart in deliberately choosing God as our supreme good. (1) The highest form of possession even of things is when they minister to our thought, to our emotion, to our moral and intellectual... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 16:8 This text is not the exclamation of a man to whom a truth has come as a flash; it is the deliberate outcome of a long and varied retrospect. I. God will not be, in any true sense, before our face unless we set Him there. It is a matter which involves our determination and effort, a mat... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 16:9 I. Although the sacred Scriptures teach us to think nothing of temporal death but merely as a sleep, while they would beyond all things impress on our minds a sense of the day of judgment and that which is to follow it, yet the little that is told us of the state of our souls before the... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 16:10 I. This verse proves most expressly the truth of our Saviour's human soul and body; proves that as He took on Himself, really and truly, the substance of our nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, and lived and died in all respects a Man, sin only and sinful infirmity excepted, so a... [ Continue Reading ]