CONTENTS Here is another gospel Psalm, in which the Holy Ghost, by the pen of his servant David, describes the Lord Jesus Christ as the glorious Mediator, head, and King of his Church. He is first described as Him by whom Jehovah made the world; and then he is pointed out both in his kingdom of pro... [ Continue Reading ]
The sovereignty of Jehovah over the universe is here beautifully set forth by right of creation; and all the inhabitants, in like manner, are his by the same right, as their Author and Maker. And the sovereignty of the kingdom of grace is also as beautifully set forth, inasmuch as God hath created a... [ Continue Reading ]
The Prophet having thus established the lawful right of the Mediator, as Lord of all, by virtue both of creation and redemption, to universal dominion, he here looks above the earth to the heavens, and contemplating the gospel-church, as represented by the holy hill of Zion, he puts the question, Wh... [ Continue Reading ]
Who is this? Where is the man that can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from sin? Proverbs 20:9. Where shall we look among all the fallen sons of Adam for one to answer this description? All have sinned, and come short of God's glory. But there is a man, whose name is Wonderful, and who ha... [ Continue Reading ]
This becomes a confirmation of the above: for who, but Jesus, can receive the blessing? What blessing? The blessing of covenant-redemption, surely, must be meant, and which includes every other. Hence Jehovah saith, and saith it in reference to this redemption by the Mediator, - My righteousness sha... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader, do remark, in confirmation of what went before, that here is now a change of persons. The two preceding verses treated of one person, and one only. Here we have a plurality of persons, even a generation. And what doth all this mean, but that the generation of Christ seekers, even that seed o... [ Continue Reading ]
What a sublimity there is in these blessed words; and what a rich treasure they contain, in reference to the person and glory of our almighty Mediator! So important a doctrine was the triumph of Jesus, that God the Holy Ghost was pleased to shadow it forth in the Old Testament church, when the ark w... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER, short as this Psalm is, yet what glorious things are contained in it! What volumes are folded up in its bosom. Here is enough to excite inquiry, and to exercise contemplation upon the person and work of Jesus to all eternity. Let us seek grace to gather every improvement from it... [ Continue Reading ]