CONTENTS
Here is another of the records of the day of Jacob's troubles. The
church is still at the mercy-seat, and adopts similar arguments in
prayer to those which were made use of in the foregoing Psalm, namely,
God's love to his people, and their interest in him.
To the chief musician upon Shos... [ Continue Reading ]
These tribes, Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, are probably put for
all Israel. As if the church begged that Christ's favor to his people
should be as conspicuous, as the pillar of cloud had been in the camp
before all Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
These are most blessed tokens, and highly expressive of grace in the
heart. And the prayer, being again repeated, plainly shows from whence
alone the church looked for both the work of true prayer and faith,
and the answer.... [ Continue Reading ]
If we read this in allusion, first, to the old church dispensation,
and then again spiritually to the new, and the Holy Ghost condescends
to be our teacher, we shall find rich instruction in the beautiful
similitude here adopted, of the church represented by a vine. Christ
is the Vine, so he himself... [ Continue Reading ]
This is a beautiful and most interesting prayer: and, after the view
which the apostle, hath given of this subject, in his Epistle to the
Romans, to which I before referred, may we not consider it as plainly
meant for the church of the Gentiles to be daily using at the throne
and mercy-seat for thei... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
READER! if the church of old, with reference to Christ, as he who was
to come as the Shepherd of Israel, thus prayed him to shine forth, and
to show himself from between the cherubim, well may you and I look up
to Jesus now, who not only hath come and led his sheep-fold, and gone
before... [ Continue Reading ]