Psalms 113

Yea further, of this tribe came (1 Chronicles 7.27.) Joshua, that noble captain; and (1 Kings 11.26.) Jeroboam, and many other mighty Kings of Israel. Where we may learn, that God is the disposer of honors and dignities in this world; he gives these to whom he will, to some more…

Has God so ennobled the righteous, and given them a superexcellency above others? Then let the righteous be thankful (Psalm 113:7). He raises the poor out of the dust, that he may set him with princes.

Therefore, let me show you first, how these two great benefits, confidence and certainty of hearing and having our petitions, do both spring and arise from what is here taught us. First, which is the foundation of all the rest, speaking of adoption in (1 John 3:1), he says, Beho…

1. It is a mercy that being so great, he takes notice of us (Psalm 8:3-4): When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars which you have ordained, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you visit him. When we consider how the…

Now to correct this imagination, the Prophet grants it is true that God dwells on high, but yet does not therefore cease to behold and to govern this world by his providence: for he is careful of men's salvations, and dwells also with the afflicted, and with those that are of a…

Thank therefore and praise him only, fear and dread him, and then shall not you be deceived. For if you trust in men, or any creature, calling upon them, then truly shall you be deceived, unhappy and accursed as testify both Jeremiah in the 17th chapter and David in Psalm 113 sa…

In the very taking of flesh, there was a condescension, a debasing of the person of the Son of God: it could not be without it. If God humbled himself to behold the things that are in heaven and earth (Psalm 113:6), then certainly it was an inconceivable condescension and abasem…

They that have not seen the father of a child cannot know its resembling him; for the world knows not God, and therefore discerns not his image in his children to esteem them for it. But whatever be their opinion, this we must say ourselves: Behold what love — to take firebrands…

It exhorts the Godly to thankfulness. God has taken you out of the rubbish of mankind, and made you Jewels, Psalm 113:7. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, that he may set him with Princes: let me allude, God has raised you out of the dust of a natural Estate, and ennobled…

So Hannah here specifically counts among God's singular benefits the fruitfulness of women who were previously barren. And indeed this sentiment is often repeated in Scripture, so that we know it is not Hannah alone who proclaims this — especially in the Psalms, where in Psalm 1…

For example, whenever we see a person of lowly and abject condition raised to the highest pinnacle of dignity and honor and ruling, we ought to be stirred, and confessing, acknowledge that all public affairs and empires are held, cherished, and changed by the one hand of God, ac…

Do I court him, and observe him? There is less reason why God should abase himself to look upon us, or concern himself in us (Psalm 113:6): He humbles himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth. We have all things from him.

This is a good sign that Christ is yours (Psalm 27:8): when you said, Seek my face, my heart said to you, Your face, Lord, will I seek. Be thankful for Christ; God has done more for you in giving you Christ than if he had set you with the princes of the earth (Psalm 113:8). He h…

And that in general which is ascribed unto him is self-emptying; he emptied himself. This the ancient church called his condescension, an act of which kind in God is called the humbling of himself (Psalm 113:6). Therefore the undertaking of our nature for the discharge of the of…

They, moreover, gave an instance of what they affirmed; and that was, he had stripped himself of his glory that he might do this for the poor; and that they heard him say and affirm, that he would not dwell in the mountain of Zion alone. They said, moreover, that he had made man…

This privilege of adoption is bestowed upon you, not only by the Father, but also by the Son; (John 1:12) But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. We read of some raised from the dust, and lifted up from…