CONTENTS The Psalmist is celebrating divine goodness through the whole of this Psalm, and from his experience calling upon the whole Church to engage in the same delightful employment. A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. Psalms 34... [ Continue Reading ]
It is a blessed way so lo praise God as to invite other's to the same practice by our example; and when we not only invite by action, but by winning words. And the best evidence produced by way of propelling others to the praise of the Lord, is, when a soul can say, I have found him gracious. But Re... [ Continue Reading ]
Is not Christ emphatically here spoken of? Is he not the same poor man as Solomon high spoken of also? Ecclesiastes 9:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
The ministry of angels is a very pleasing thought. Hebrews 1:14; Acts 12:6 But, Reader! let us ever keep in view the angel of the covenant, even He who is indeed both the covenant itself, and the messenger, administrator, and the whole of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
All these verses are beautiful representations of the fulness; suitableness; completeness, and all-sufficiency of a God in Christ to answer all the wants of his people. And is there not a vast elegance in the comparison taken from the hunger and rapacity of the lion, even the impetuousness of the yo... [ Continue Reading ]
How exceedingly to be desired is it, that those who set up for instructors of children would adopt David's plan, and instead of useless sciences, falsely so called, teach that happy science, the only one truly to be esteemed, so to know and to fear the Lord. These are all charming precepts, and when... [ Continue Reading ]
May we not, indeed ought we not to behold Christ as our Mediator, when reading, in this and similar passages of scripture, of the Lord's looking upon us, and his ears being open to our cry, and his countenance being upon us? I beg the Reader to observe, that I do not positively assert anything on su... [ Continue Reading ]
These are all so many charming additions of the security and blessedness of the people of God, and so plain as to need no comment.... [ Continue Reading ]
I detain the Reader at this verse to fix his eye upon Christ. It was never said of any other but the paschal Lamb; and this the apostles John and Paul declare to mean Christ, that not a bone of him should be broken. Many of God's dear children have gone to heaven with broken bones. So that it is Chr... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark, my soul, the striking contrast between the unreclaimed and the regenerate. The one must be slain by the sin unpardoned, unsubdued, and which will prey forever upon the vitals like a canker. The other must be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation, because Christ hath redeemed his peop... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER! think how gracious God the Holy Ghost is, in calling again and again upon the Church to view Christ in his ministry and in his triumphs, to prompt all, his redeemed to triumph in him and through him, when the Lord at any time gives new cause for praise. And shall not you and I,... [ Continue Reading ]