DISCOURSE: 689 THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE Psalms 116:1. _I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I f... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 690 GRATEFUL RECOLLECTIONS Psalms 116:8. _Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling: I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living._ IT is justly said by David, in another psalm, “The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 691 HOW TO REQUITE THE LORD FOR HIS MERCIES Psalms 116:12. _What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me! I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people._ THE influence of fa... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 692 THE DEATH OF SAINTS PRECIOUS Psalms 116:15. _Previous in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints._ THE meaning of these words will be best marked from the occasion on which we suppose them to have been uttered. The psalm appears to have been written after Absalom’s rebellion... [ Continue Reading ]