CONTENTS This is not so properly a new psalm, as a continuation of the former: it takes up the subject where the preceding left off in the church's history. The Lord's goodness, and Israel's unworthiness, form the principal contents.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is a general call to the praise of Jehovah, for his glories, as he is in himself, and for his mercies, as he is towards his people. And when the believer keeps in view the mercies of redemption by Jesus, and his personal interest in them, how will such contemplation heighten his song!... [ Continue Reading ]
This is a beautiful breaking off in the hymn of praise, to put up an earnest prayer that the Psalmist may be made a rich partaker of the covenant-mercies he had been blessing God for; and that he might see for himself what the people of God enjoyed, and partake in that rich, covenant-love the Lord b... [ Continue Reading ]
Here comes in the acknowledgment of Israel's guilt. Was there ever such an history as Israel's, for proofs of divine love? Was there ever such an history as Israel's, for ingratitude and rebellion? Reader! look inward. What hath been manifested to you, and me, of God's love and mercy in Christ? And... [ Continue Reading ]
I beg the Reader to keep up his attention, not only here, but in every part of scripture, to the many neverthelesses, and buts, and notwithstandings, which are sweetly interspersed, to manifest the covenant-mercy and loving-kindness of God in Christ. See a few in point: Isaiah 42:25, with Isaiah 43:... [ Continue Reading ]
I include all these verses within one reading, though the Reader will recollect that they refer to several very interesting transactions at different periods in the church's history. But it would swell this work to an unsuitable magnitude, to enlarge on each. I rather refer to the Bible itself: Exod... [ Continue Reading ]
How very delightfully this verse comes in after the former. Who doth not see in this interposition of Moses, a type of the intercession of the ever blessed Jesus? The Holy Ghost (if one may be allowed the expression) seems, upon many occasions, to have taken delight in shadowing forth the Lord Jesus... [ Continue Reading ]
For the same reason as before, I include the whole of what is here rehearsed in one reading. But let not the Reader be as brief upon the interesting things here recorded. Let him consult the several parts of the Jewish history in the Bible, to which they refer. See Numbers 13:1; Numbers 14:1. And le... [ Continue Reading ]
Still prosecuting the same history, the Psalmist records in these verses the perpetual ingratitude of Israel, and the unceasing loving-kindness of the Lord. And although the Lord chastened them, and gave them into the hands of their enemies, yet here also, as before, there is a nevertheless, in the... [ Continue Reading ]
How suitably does the Psalm conclude in prayer and praise? Surely every reader cannot but make the same conclusion, whose mind is properly affected by the perusal of such an interesting view as is here afforded of the Church's unworthiness, and the Lord's grace towards her. Whether, as hath been sup... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER! let us prosecute the same delightful subject as the Psalmist; and since he goes on from one psalm so another, adoring the name of the Lord, we will follow the example; and never grow tired of the grateful employment. Surely, we may well say, It is a good thing to give thanks unto... [ Continue Reading ]