CONTENTS This is a mournful Psalm, on the sorrows and uncertainty of life, full of pious breathings on death, and the solemn consequences of it. The Psalm closes in prayer. To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthan. A Psalm of David.... [ Continue Reading ]
What a beautiful and lovely example doth Jesus hold forth of silence, not only in the sight, but under the reproaches of the ungodly! Oh! for grace to be always keeping in view him who endured such a contradiction of sinners against himself, lest we be weary and faint in our mind. Hebrews 12:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
We see here the profitableness of silence towards man, for it tended to receive the descendings of grace in leading the mind out in devout meditation towards God. How lovely are the kindlings of the Holy Spirit, and what blessed effects do they induce! Isaiah 41:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
What a devout prayer this is, and what blessedness is intended in the discovery. Observe what the object of the petition is; not to know the hour of death, or the place of departure, or the means God in wisdom might appoint to produce the termination of life; these were not the subjects the Psalmist... [ Continue Reading ]
I have made no break or interruption in these verses, because the subject through the whole is one and the same. Under several very striking and elegant similitudes, the Psalmist in his prayer shows the shortness of life, and the vanity of all earthly things to satisfy the desires of the soul; and f... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER! let our improvements on this solemn meditation of the Psalmist, (for we are all, as men, equally interested in it), lead out our thoughts upon the same necessary subject. Have we ever lifted the earnest supplication like him unto God for grace, so to number our days as to apply o... [ Continue Reading ]