Psalms 11

He has threatened to judge adulterers (Hebrews 13:3), to be avenged upon the malicious (Psalm 10:14). You behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your own hand: to rain fire and brimstone upon the sinner (Psalm 11:6). And God is as true in his threatenings as his promises;…

(Romans 2:8-9) Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that does evil; which one place, putting the four words together says, 1. That there is sorrow most certainly and inseparably on every soul that has sinned, and 2. That this sorrow is exceeding…

This is laid down as a certain truth (Ecclesiastes 8:12-13): Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with him that fears God, but it shall not be well with the wicked — there shall be a change at death. And it…

The use. Hence we learn, that God has an exact knowledge of all our actions, and cannot be deluded (Proverbs 15:11). Hell and destruction are before him, how much more, etc. (Psalm 11:4). His eyes consider, his eyelids try the children of men (Psalm 139:2).

Hell is taken by this violence (Proverbs 4:17): Who drink the wine of violence. This wine will turn to poison at last (Psalm 11:5): Him that loves violence God's soul hates. 4. They are violent for their covetous lusts.

Man looketh on the outward Appearance, but the Lord looketh on the Heart. Psalm 11:7. His Countenance doth behold the Upright.

Object: But you will say this is a work of time; what is to be done to avoid the danger of the present distractions? Sol: I answer, that question is to be put to God not man (Psalm 11:3). If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do — that is, if religion, laws, au…

There is a cup for them but his children drink not with them; they have another cup, the Lord himself is the portion of their cup (Psalm 16). His favor, as closes (Psalm 11), the righteous Lord loves righteousness, his countenance does behold the upright, that is another beholdi…

Raining snares is an argument of God's hatred. First, the Lord shall rain snares; and then, brimstone and a horrible tempest shall be their portion: (Psalm 11:6) so it makes way for his eternal anger. Use 5. Let us be contented with that portion which God has given us of worldly…

2. Therefore God is said to dwell in heaven, because from there he manifests his powerful providence, wisdom, justice, and goodness. God is not so shut up in heaven, as not to mind human affairs, and to take notice of what is done here below (Psalm 11:4), The Lord's throne is in…

But David did not however succumb to this temptation, but overcame it by faith. For which reason in Psalm 11, insulting his very enemies, he says: In the Lord I trust, how do you say to my soul, Flee to the mountain like a sparrow. Indeed God's enemies harass his servants with m…

Now in what a direful condition are all the deserters of God's law! Besides the loss of heaven, there is eternal fire which is the portion of the wicked; (Psalm 11:6) Upon the wicked he will rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest; this shall be the portion of th…

Here God is patient, and if he judges, yet in the midst of judgment he does remember mercy, and does not deal with men as their wickedness deserves; but then he will be extreme in punishing. The Lord himself will rain upon the wicked snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible te…

(3.) There is in it a receiving of Christ (John 1:11) a fiducial resting of the heart upon God in Christ. And the word [illegible] is to confide, to betake himself to a lurking place, where one may be safe from a storm (Psalm 2:12; Psalm 11:1; Psalm 31:2; Deuteronomy 32:37; Psal…

So they who by their prodigious sins have so far incensed the God of Heaven, that he denies them the water of Repentance, may look upon themselves as condemned persons. 3. Repentance is necessary for thecheating crew, (Psalm 11:9). 18. Their deceitis falshood; who are wise to do…

If judgment begins at the house of God, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel? 1 Peter 4:17. If God mingles his people's cup with wormwood, he will mingle the sinner's cup with fire and brimstone, Psalm 11:6. If God thresh the Wheat, he will burn the Chaff.