1 Chronicles 16

So God will do much for his people, he will give them the inheritance; he will put some of Christ's glory as mediator upon them, but his essential glory he will not part with; in the throne he will be greater. 2. The glory which is ascribed to God, or which his creatures labor t…

Qu. 12. What is principally to be attended to by us in the manner of the celebration of the worship of God, and observation of the institutions and ordinances of the Gospel? Answ. That we observe and do all whatever the Lord Christ has commanded us to observe, in the way that he…

To give yet farther strength to all these considerations, that we may not only have rules and precepts, but examples also for our instruction, God has given many signal instances of his severity against persons who by ignorance, neglect, or regardlesness, have miscarried in not…

And although some of the ways which he does appoint may seem to have a great compliance in them to the light of nature, yet in his worship he accepts them not on that account, but merely on that of his own institution. And this as he has declared his will about in the second Com…

1. There was then a clear word of institution for them. The trumpets of silver and cornets of horn, were instituted by the hand of Moses (Numbers 10, in the ten first verses, and Leviticus 23:23, 24), and in David's time there were added cymbals of brass, and harps and psalterie…

You have been my help, you have delivered my soul from death, will you not deliver my feet from falling? But in the church's concerns too (1 Chronicles 16:11-12): seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually; remember the marvelous works that he has done. A reflecti…

Yes, further, this land, it was a typical land of the Church, and a typical land of heaven, for so the Apostle speaking of that place in the Psalms, that he swore in his wrath, that they should not enter in his rest. The Apostle in (Hebrews 3:7) seems to apply it to the rest of…

2. God does nothing in the election of Peter, more than of Judas; nor can grace and mercy have place in the choosing of the one, rather than the other; but as free will is foreseen to play the game ill, or well, so go the eternal decrees of election and reprobation, and there ca…

Verse 14, Neither with you only do I make this Covenant and this Oath. 1 Chronicles 16:15, 16. Be you mindful always of his Covenant—Even of the Covenant which he made with Abraham, and his Oath unto Isaac—

And it is a style which we too should be ambitious of. If we would not be miserable for ever, we must be the mystical, the spiritual seed of Israel; but such are so saluted in (1 Chronicles 16:13), O you seed of Israel his servant. As our Father's friend, so our Father's Lord, w…

Israel marrying and Israel according to the flesh is the holy seed (Nehemiah 7:61; Nehemiah 9:2) the holy seed have mingled with the heathen. 1 Chronicles 16:13: O you seed of Israel his servants, you children of Jacob whom he has chosen, be mindful of his Covenant. And this hol…

The meditation of our experiences would, 1. Raise us to thankfulness. Considering that God has set a hedge of providence about us, he has strewed our way with roses; this would make us take the Harp and Vial, and praise the Lord; and not only praise, but record, 1 Chronicles 16.…

The return of the ark of God to dwell in Zion, in the midst of the land of Israel, after it had been long absent, first in the land of the Philistines, and then in Kirjath-jearim, in the utmost borders of the land, did lively represent the return of God to a professing people, i…