Psalms 106

To one that is a hater of him. This was an aggravation of Israel's servitude (Psalm 106:41): They that hated them ruled over them. By sin we are enslaved to Satan, who is a hater of mankind, and writes all his laws in blood.

This is evangelical obedience, which though it be not to satisfaction, it is to acceptation. 3. True child-like obedience is constant (Psalm 106:3). Blessed is he that does righteousness at all times.

So when we do not come to God in and through Christ, we offer up incense to God without a priest, and what can we expect but severe rebukes? 6. Obedience must be constant (Psalm 106:3). Blessed is he who does righteousness at all times.

It concerns us therefore to resist this sin. Where the tide is apt to run with greater force, there we had need make the banks higher and stronger; the plague of idolatry is very infectious (Psalm 106:35-36). They were mingled among the heathens, and served their idols.

This is that we pray for, that God's will may be done by us on earth, as it is in heaven: is it not done willingly there? We must keep God's commandments constantly (Psalm 106:3). Blessed is he who does righteousness at all times.

Oh, how uncomely is it to murmur at providence! It is fittest for a Cain to be wroth with God (Genesis 4:6). 1. Murmuring proceeds from unbelief. When men distrust God's promise, then they murmur at his providence (Psalm 106:24-25). They believed not his word, but murmured. When…

You are in great danger of being polluted: it is hard to be as the fish which keep fresh in salt waters: a man cannot dwell among the Black-a-moors, but he will be discolored: you will sooner be corrupted by idolaters, than they will be converted by you. Joseph got no good by li…

The holiness of God is the intrinsic purity of his essence. He who has God for his Father partakes of the divine nature; though not of the divine essence, yet of the divine likeness: As the seal sets its print and likeness upon the wax, so he who has God for his Father has the p…

Faith digests the Word, and turns it into spiritual nourishment. Many hear the Word, but it may be said of them as (Psalm 106:24): They believed not his Word. As Melancton once said to some of the Italians, "You Italians worship God in the bread, when you do not believe him to b…

There are three cords to draw men to adultery: the inclination of the heart, the persuasion of evil company, and the embraces of the harlot; and this three-fold cord is not easily broken. A fire was kindled in their company (Psalm 106:18). I may allude to it, the fire of lust is…

Many Christians are settled upon their lees, they are loath to put themselves to too much pains. It is said of Israel, They despised the pleasant land: (Psalm 106:24) Canaan was a paradise of delight, a type of heaven; but some of the Jews thought it would cost them a great deal…

7. We do God's Will as the Angels in Heaven, when we do it constantly; the Angels are never weary of doing God's Will, they serve God day and night (Revelation 7:17). Thus must we imitate the Angels (Psalm 106:3), Blessed is he that does righteousness at all times. Constancy cro…

The red sea.] In many places of the old testament, it is called the sea of rushes, Psalm 106.7, 9. Or, the sea of sedges, Jeremiah 49.21.

There was no way for Jonah to be saved, but by being swallowed up. God suffered the Egyptians to hate Israel, Psalm 106.41. and this was the means of their deliverance. Saint Paul was bound with a Chain, and that Chain which did bind him was a means to enlarge the Gospel, Philip…

Consider also that prayer is a worthy means of defense, not only to us, but also to the church and those that are absent. By it Moses stood in the breach, which God's wrath had made into the people of Israel, and stayed the same, Psalms 106:23. By this, Christian men fight as va…

Although the fig tree does not blossom, yet I will rejoice in the Lord: a righteous man believes that if God will save him from hell, he will save him from want; if he will give him a kingdom, he will not deny him daily bread. 3. A righteous man lives more spiritually, as he sho…

Now David in this psalm, speaks only of the righteousness of the action, or innocency of his cause, in that he was falsely charged to have sought the kingdom. In like manner it is said of Phinehas (Psalm 106:31) that his act in killing Zimri and Cozbi, was imputed to him for rig…

And the reason of this is, 1. Because there is nothing that is not saving, but a natural man may have it; now, this doctrinal faith is not saving, and so a natural man may have it — yea, the devils believe and tremble; and James does not dispute with these to whom he writes on t…

So when the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, were they humbled? In fact, their murmuring against Moses and Aaron (Exodus 5:20-22) testifies their pride: and in that miraculous deliverance, and greatest danger, when they were between Satan and the deep sea, they were not humbled…

Your faith toward God (1 Peter 1:21; Deuteronomy 1:32; John 3:12; Genesis 15:6; Daniel 6:23; Romans 4:3; Galatians 2:16; 2 Timothy 1:12). The word, promises, and Prophets and Apostles, are all creatures, and but media fidei, the means of saving faith: they are objectum quo (John…

That seeing of the salvation of God, is neither conversion, nor preparation of a people for Christ. 2. The phrase of seeing God, and the salvation of God, being set down as a powerful fruit of the Gospel, has never in Scripture so low a meaning as is not wanting to natural men,…

When the three children were in the fiery furnace, then God sent an Angel to be their deliverer (Daniel 3:28). But now in wantonness to desire extraordinary proofs of God's care over us, when he has in ordinary ways provided for us, is to tempt the Lord (Psalm 106:14). They lust…

Then they respect means, and end together, and submit to the one, to obtain the other. If the wicked are said to despise eternal happiness, it is not simply as happiness, nor as eternal; for they that love themselves would be happy, and everlastingly happy, but it is in conjunct…

But if you be real saints, I dare say, you do approve of it; and practice it sometimes; and why are you not constant in your obedience? Is it not the property of a saint to do righteousness at all times? (Psalm 106:3). Oh consider this, and do not either neglect a command or omi…

Answer: It is to be imputed, that is, ascribed to him as to the author thereof: and withal because he did perform it in our room, and stead, and that for us, it is to be imputed to us. Secondly, it is objected, that works are also imputed, as well as faith (Psalm 106:31). Phineh…

He desired that he might be offered up as a drink offering upon the sacrifice of the faith of the Philippians (Philippians 2:18). When the Israelites had sinned, Moses stands in the breach, as it were in the face of the cannon, between the wrath of God and them, by his prayer to…

In my opinion, she was so fully convinced of the promise made to her, that she had no doubt of its accomplishment. When she saw a severe punishment inflicted on her husband for "speaking unadvisedly with his lips," (Psalm 106:33,) did she, for five successive months, cherish in…

Whereas sometimes works are said to be imputed to righteousness, and also other beatitudes are reckoned, that does nothing prejudice the sentence of Paul. Psalm 106:30 says it was imputed for righteousness to Phinehas the priest of the Lord, that in taking punishment upon the ad…

And of the Fear of God, as in the Samaritans, who feared the Lord, and served their own Gods at the same Time; 2 Kings 17:32, 33. And those Enemies of God we read of Psalm 66:3 who through the Greatness of God's Power, submit themselves to him, or, as it is in the Hebrew, lie un…

And how long will it be before [they believe me], for all the signs which I have showed among them? Indeed they despised the pleasant land: [they believed not] his word (Psalm 106:24). Or what place could be left for rational doubt, with the multitudes that beheld miracles of ou…

(2.) A faithful Remembrance of the favor. received, Psalm 103:2 Bless the Lord, O my soul. and forget not all his benefits. Hence the Lord brands the Ingratitude of his people, Psalm 106:13 They soon forgat his works. (3.) A due Appreciation and Valuation of every Providence tha…

Beware, that you forget not the care and kindness of Providence which your eyes have seen in so many fruits and experiences thereof. It was Gods charge against Israel, Psalm 106:3 that they soon forgat his wondrous works. A bad heart and a slippery memory, deprive men of the com…

He comes nigh in mercies also, Psalm 145:18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, &c. Yea, he is said to visit us by his Providence when he corrects, Hosea 9:7 and when he saves and delivers, Psalm 106:4 These visitations of God preserve our spirits, Job. 10:12 And…

"For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants; when he sees their power is gone, and there is none shut up or left." Those remarkable dispensations of Providence are very livelily and elegantly set forth by the Psalmist, Psalm 106:34, etc. These deliv…

He that was a lamb in his own cause, was a lion in the cause of God; anger at sin, as sin, is very well consistent with reigning meekness. Nor can it be forgotten, that though Moses was so eminent for meekness, yet he once transgressed the laws of it; when he was old, and his sp…

How grievously did God take it from the Israelites, that they provoked him at the Sea, even at the Red Sea? Psalm 106:7. where God had wrought there deliverance in such a miraculous way. Even thus have I sinned after the similitude of there transgressions; not onely against the…

It is mercy (Jeremiah 3:12): I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not keep anger forever. So his truth (Psalm 106:45): He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. Not from any desert of theirs, who do so neglect him, and wrong…

It is of the Lord's grace to give us a sanctified use of these things. 7. We beg of God the natural blessing upon the holy use of outward comforts, so as they may continue us in health and vigor for the service of God; for nothing will prosper with us but by his blessing: (Psalm…

There is nothing God's people desire so much as Zion's welfare. (Psalm 106:54) That I may see the good of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance. And David in this Psalm, (Psalm 51:18). having prayed for himself, pr…

2. They speak one to another in a bad sence who Murmure and complain one to another; they do not complain of their Sins, but their Wants. Murmuring proceeds from unbelief, Psalm 106:24. They believed not his word but murmured.

All would live for ever; but when they must follow a despised Christ up and down the world, and incur censures and dangers, they like none of that. (Psalm 106:24) Indeed, they despised the pleasant land, and believed not his word. The land was a good land, but the way to it was…

Thus the butler did not remember Joseph, that is, did not pity him. Thus God is said not to remember the sins of them that repent, when he does not punish them; and to forget the afflictions of his people, when he does not deliver them; and we are said to forget God (Psalm 106:2…

3. It quiets the heart as to murmurings, and unquiet agitations of spirit, to wait God's leisure; when there was a storm in David's spirit, he allays it thus (Psalm 42:5): Why are you disquieted, O my soul, hope in God, for I shall yet praise him. On the contrary, murmuring, imp…

There are wages and recompenses enough in heaven, therefore we should not grudge at a little work, that we may not be drawn willingly from the least part of our duty. 2. When we do it at all times and places, and in all company, then it's a sign we mind the work, then are we dil…

So (Revelation 10:5): The Angel lift up his hand and swore. So of God (Psalm 106:26): Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness; that is, swore they should not enter into his rest. 4. For setting about any action, especially of weight (Gen…

They forgot his works and wonders that he showed them. Psalm 106:21: They forgot God their Savior, which had done great things in Egypt. Judges 8:34: And the children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of their enemies on every s…

God bestows corn, wine, and oil in the general upon the world; but now knowledge, and grace, and blessed experiences of communion with God, these are special things, he bestows them upon the saints, therefore he deserves more thankfulness. Protection is the common benefit of eve…

Man is such a fool, that he neglects to serve the God that made him, and serves gods of his own making, though that making proves that they are not as their name is, but gods (like their knowledge) falsely so called, as it is at large imputed to them of old (Isaiah 44:14-16). Th…

The Israelites were no sooner mingled with the Heathen, but they forthwith bow and sacrifice to their gods. They were mingled among the Heathen, and learned their works, and they served their Idols (Psalm 106:35-36). — Grex totus in agris Unius scabie cadit, & porrigine porci.

What serves your grace for, but to do other and better than flesh and blood can do? This kind of distemper overtook Moses and it cost him dear, and the Lord would not once vouchsafe to hear an excuse or to abate him of the [reconstructed: penalty] (Psalm 106:31-32). It went ill…