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;…

Now in a Judge it is requisite. 1. That he be of a discerning eye; That so he may be able to see into the whole case, to state it right, and to understand the true and full sense of the Law which refers to it, and to compare the matter of fact with the mind of the Law, that so h…

But that is not the fire that is here intended. It is devouring, consuming, destroying, such as answers the severity of God's justice to the utmost, as Isaiah 9:5; chapter 30:33; chapter 66:15; Amos 7:4; Matthew 18:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Psalm 11:7; Deuteronomy 32:22. Therefore…

And thus much for this verse of raining righteousness. God has another rain for the wicked and ungodly, in Psalm 11, he rains snares, and fire and brimstone upon them.

They should go then into the holes of the rocks and caves of the earth, for they were wont to use such things there much. And so that Scripture in Psalm 11:1. "In the Lord put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?"

(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).

When one blow will not do the work appointed, God redoubles the stroke of his hand (Leviticus 26:22, 23, 24, 25). Or burning coals, dreadful judgments, mortal weapons, as fire and flames are often taken in other descriptions of God's dealing with his enemies (Psalms 11:6, 18:8):…

God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, [in non-Latin alphabet] and shall rain it upon him while he is eating; [in non-Latin alphabet] for [in non-Latin alphabet]. So again, the same word is used, chap. 22. v. 2. Psalm 11. v. 7. The Righteous Lord loves Righteousness, [in…

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.

(Psalm 16, last verse) in your presence is fulness of joys; and the Apostle thought he had backed his exhortation with a most potent argument in (Hebrews 12:14), follow after holiness, without which no man shall see God; in his light only can we see light; and there is nothing b…

And what way God plagues hypocrisy with farther hypocrisy, and by all sins? Heart-deceitfulness is within itself a rooting of itself: now this deceitfulness being so contrary to sincere and singleness of heart must be incapable of influences, for the upright and sincere heart, a…

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…

There are the trials of divine examinations, which will be critical upon us. It is said in Psalm 11:4, 5: the Lord's eyes behold, and His eyelids try the children of men; the Lord sounds (as the French translation has it) both the righteous and the wicked. Every man in the world…

Thus a good man can be drawn forth into large expressions of goodness and virtue. It was said by such an one in Psalm 11:3, my goodness extends. He extends his piety, his charity, he extends his influence far and near; and he is a diffusive good.

(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.

It were almost an infinite task to declare what the Scripture, the word of truth has delivered concerning the issue of righteousness. Generally it says, the Lord loves righteousness (Psalm 11:7). Verily there is a reward for the righteous (Psalm 58:11): blessings are on the head…

Q. 8. What are the attributes which usually are ascribed to him in his works, or the acts of his will? A. (k) Goodness, (l) power, (m) justice, (n) mercy, (o) holiness, (p) wisdom, and the like, which he delights to exercise towards his creatures, for the praise of his glory. (k…

Q. 8. What are the attributes which usually are ascribed to him in his works, or the acts of his will? A. (k) Goodness, (l) power, (m) justice, (n) mercy, (o) holiness, (p) wisdom, and the like, which he delights to exercise towards his creatures, for the praise of his glory. (k…

Thus this holy man ascribes his assent into the one unquestionable principle of the Scripture, as to the effecting of it in himself, to the work of God's Spirit in his heart. As Basil also does on Psalm 11. [in non-Latin alphabet]: Faith which draws the soul to consent above the…