CONTENTS This Psalm is a psalm of instruction. It should seem that God the Holy Ghost was graciously pleased to make use of his servant the prophet's pen to give suitable information to the church, concerning the prosperity of the wicked, and the apparent distress of the righteous. A Psalm of Davi... [ Continue Reading ]
The prosperity of sinners, and the distresses of good men, have been in all ages a stumbling-block even to the faithful. The prophet Jeremiah puts it down as an undeniable conclusion, that God is righteous; but yet desires permission to make an humble inquiry wherefore the way of the wicked should p... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! do not overlook, however, the person of Christ in what is here said; while the chief scope of the Psalm is to comfort his church, yet recollect that that comfort is, all in, and from Jesus. It is his righteousness which is said to be brought forth as the light. All our righteousnesses are as... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus is the rest wherewith the Lord will cause the weary to rest; and he that believeth in him will not (for he need not) make haste. Isaiah 28:12. There is a great beauty in the thought of the transitory abode of the sinner. Even while looking upon him, or looking after him, he is gone. Psalms 103... [ Continue Reading ]
The Reader will not forget that Jesus hath said the same, and pronounced a blessedness on the meek, Matthew 5:5. But Reader! do not, by looking to the meekness of any follower of the Lord, overlook the source of it, and more especially the meek and lowly Jesus. Yea, Lord! I would pray to learn of th... [ Continue Reading ]
What an awful day of God will this be. Reader! if you look into the world, and behold the proud man's scorn, and the poor man's oppressed circumstances, recollect what is here said: The day is coming. Man hath seemingly his day. But the Lord certainly hath his. And oh! what woe, what accumulated woe... [ Continue Reading ]
These verses are all so plain, that, as they need no explanation, so an attempt to do it would only enervate their own pure and decisive language. A little with Christ is beyond millions of riches without him. Reader I look diligently in all your enjoyments, whether Jesus be in them, and whether tho... [ Continue Reading ]
This is a charming observation, founded on long experience, from youth to age: never was it known that the Lord forsook his redeemed. But, Reader! without my observing it, surely it will strike you, as it doth me, that the begging of bread means somewhat of more importance than the bread that perish... [ Continue Reading ]
I have not interrupted the progress of these verses from the same reason as before: they contain so many beautiful repetitions of the same unquestionable truth; the wicked shall not go unpunished, neither shall the faithful go unnoticed. But let the Reader take with him the cause of the good man's s... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS My soul! from the perusal of this blessed Psalm, take the apostle's words as the best conclusion from the whole, and subscribe to the doctrine, as a doctrine perfectly conclusive and unquestionable: Godliness is profitable unto all things; it hath the promise of the life that now is, an... [ Continue Reading ]