2 Samuel 6

O! was Christ content to be humbled and abased for us, to take our flesh, and to take it when it was in disgrace, let us not think much to be abased for Christ. Say as David (2 Samuel 6:22), If this be to be vile, I will yet be more vile. If to serve my Lord Christ, if to keep m…

Sixth sign, steadfast resolution; he is resolved never to part with his holiness: let others reproach it, he loves it the more; let water be sprinkled on the fire, it burns the more. He says as David when Michal reproached him for dancing before the Ark (2 Samuel 6:22), if this…

Only beware of offending him at whose word your lights and comforts come and go. Michal displeased the Lord, and therefore had no child to the day of her death (2 Samuel 6:23). Hannah waited humbly upon the Lord for the blessing of children, and the Lord remembered her.

Two words express Christ's old, and eternal love to men, his delights was with the sons of men, as Christ was his Father's delight, from eternity; so was Christ feasting himself on the thoughts of love, delight, and free grace to men; sure not to Pharaoh, Judas, and all the race…

Esteeming the reproach of Christ, greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; prefer it before all earthly honor (Acts 5:41). And they departed from the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name, and (2 Samuel 6:22), I will yet be more vile and…

Exodus 4. 24, 25. David had his scoffing Michal, 2 Samuel 6:20 And patient Job no small addition to all his other afflictions, from the Wife of his bosom, who should have been a support to him in the day of his trouble, Job 19:17 No doubt, but God sanctifies such rods to his Peo…

It's our corruption, and not the multitude of lawful employments, that distracts us: David went home to bless his own family, in the midst of public affairs (2 Samuel 6:20). Fourthly, from the consideration of the penman, (stained with such faults) made use of, by God in the com…

God was sanctified, and therefore Aaron was satisfied, and had not a word to say against it. Unlike to this was the temper, or rather the distemper of David, who then was not like a man after God's own heart, when he was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzza (…

Such as is better than precious ointment. Though there be those that trample upon the meek of the earth, and look upon them as Michal upon David, despising them in their hearts, yet if this is to be vile, let us be yet more vile, and base in our own sight, and we shall find (as…

2. Let us not be deterred from serious godliness, or any of the instances of it, by the invidious name of a sect, which is put upon it. If a strict and sober and circumspect conversation, a conscientious government of our tongue, praying and singing Psalms in our families, a rel…

He knows that within a few days he shall be honored by those that do reproach him. As David said to Michal, 2 Samuel 6:22 when she told him of being vile in the eyes of the handmaids, Of the maid-servants which you hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honor: so even of thos…

For according to one's inward affection and disposition will the outward action and conversation be framed. Michal first despised David in her heart, and from there it followed that she uttered most unreverent and vile speeches of him, even to his face (2 Samuel 6:16). Therefore…

When that for which a wife is reproved is a truth, a known truth, and a weighty truth, the husband in performing this duty justifies his deed, shows that there was need thereof, and so gives evidence of his love, makes his reproof to pierce the more deeply, and so makes her the…

It is matter of thanksgiving, not of shame. David is an instance, when Michal scoffed at him, I will yet be more vile, (2 Samuel 6:22). It is an honor to be dishonored for Christ.

That no sin against a great God can be properly (though compared with a greater, it may be) a little sin; but be it never so little, to account it so, makes it greater: and the nature of the greatest sin is in the least; a spark of fire, a drop of poison has the nature of much m…

Though sinners are like devils, yet they would be thought saints: Saul's sin must needs be for a sacrifice, and so God must patron the sin that was committed against himself (1 Samuel 15). Absalom covers his rebellion and treason with the devotion of a vow (2 Samuel 6:6). Herod…

Seventh sign: a pure heart is so in love with purity that nothing can draw him off from it. 1. Let others reproach purity, he loves it; as David, when he danced before the ark, and Michal scoffed; if (says he) this be to be vile, I will yet be more vile (2 Samuel 6:22). So says…

It brings a kingdom; a man's sin brings him to shame (Proverbs 13:5; Romans 6:21): What fruit had you in those things of which you are now ashamed? But religion brings to honor (Proverbs 4:8); it brings a man to a throne, a crown, it ends in glory; it is the sinner's folly to re…

One day a Christian is quick and lively in prayer, another day like the disciples — heavy and sleeping (Luke 22:45). At one time a Christian is like David when he danced before the ark with all his might (2 Samuel 6:14); at another time like Samson when his hair was shaved and h…

A husband that loves his spouse, is exceeding readie to suffer any thing to enjoy her love, he is willing to suffer any displeasure of parents, of friends, to suffer the losse of his estate, he cares not for discredit in the world, he is ready to breake through thicke and thinne…

This would cheer the Christians heart, and confirme him when the fight is hottest, and the bullets flie thickest from men and devils, to think, 'tis heaven all this is for, where it's worth having a place, though we go through fire and water to it. 'Tis before the Lord, (said Da…

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…

They are careful of their honor, and seem to be afraid of appearing openly forward and zealous in religion, as though it were what would debase their character, and expose them to contempt. But in this day of bringing up the ark, they ought to be like David, that great king of I…