CONTENTS The Psalmist is here again under affliction, and is looking to the mercy-seat for deliverance. He makes complaint against his enemies, and those of the church. A Song 1-8 Whether we behold Christ, thus appealing to the Father, under his exercises, for himself and church; or the church h... [ Continue Reading ]
Do, Reader, remark the expression; the Lord's hidden ones. As Christ himself is said to be hid in the Father's shadow, in his hand, and in his quiver, Isaiah 49:2; so Christ's little ones are said to be hidden when the wicked rise; Proverbs 28:12. Hence the prophet describes Christ as a hiding place... [ Continue Reading ]
All confederacies are to the same purport, where God's grace doth not influence the heart. And what a host of them are formed against the Israel of God? And let the Reader remark, who they are that join thus together. As it was by the seed of Jacob of old, so is it now by the praying seed of Jacob.... [ Continue Reading ]
There is not only a great beauty in this appeal and prayer of the church, against all her enemies, but also a great exercise of faith, in divine dependence. We give God credit for all that is to come, when we give him the glory of what is past, in redemptions. The church had many striking and signal... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS MY soul! observe how implacable is the enmity of Satan against Christ's hidden ones: and what persecutions, from a variety of quarters, he will stir up, in order to draw them from God. But observe also, how eternally secure they are of God's favor. They are hidden with him, and hidden i... [ Continue Reading ]