CONTENTS The general subject of this psalm is praise. The sacred writer calls upon all to praise the Lord, from sun-rise to sun-set. Every individual of intelligent creation is supposed to be interested in this service.... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet Malachi looking into gospel days, declared, that the name of Jehovah should be great among the Gentiles, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, Malachi 1:11. To this most reasonable service, the servants of the Lord are here called; and the subjects of creation, provid... [ Continue Reading ]
A most sublime thought is awakened by these verses, in the contemplation of God. To behold things in heaven, in the upper and brighter world, is wonderful condescension in him that inhabiteth the praises of eternity! And how much more so to behold things on earth, amidst the universal corruption ind... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader, hath the Lord God been thus gracious to you, in your own instance? Do you know anything of that rich, free, sovereign grace, which manifests itself in raising sinners from the dust of death, the dunghill of a fallen nature, and making them, in Christ Jesus, kings and priests to God and the F... [ Continue Reading ]
Several women in the Old Testament history, are proofs of this mercy: and the New Testament saints, no doubt, could produce also their Hannahs, and Rachels, and Elizabeths, 1Sa_1:2; 1Sa_1:19-20; Gen_30:1-2; Gen_30:22-23; Luk_1:7; Luk_1:13; Luk_1:57. And what indeed is the promise given to the Gentil... [ Continue Reading ]