Psalms 124

Christ preserves his Church as a spark in the ocean, as a flock of sheep among wolves. That the sea should be higher than the earth, and yet not drown it, is a wonder: so that the wicked should be so much higher than the Church in power, and not devour it, is because Christ has…

Here was the power of God set forth (Jeremiah 32:27): Is anything too hard for me? God loves to help, when things seem past hope; he creates deliverance (Psalm 124:8). He brought Isaac out of a dead womb, and the Messiah out of a virgin's womb.

Cannot he that made the world do much more? Our help stands in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth (Psalm 124:8). Rest on this God for help, who made heaven and earth.

His center is everywhere; he is nowhere included, yet nowhere excluded; he is so immensely great, that the heaven of heavens cannot contain him (1 Kings 8:27). 2. His greatness appears by the effects of his power; He made heaven and earth (Psalm 124:8), and can unmake it. God ca…

He who can create, can provide; he that could make us when we were nothing, he can raise us when we are low. Psalm 124:8: "Our help stands in the name of the Lord, who made Heaven and Earth." (2.) Meditate on God's holiness.

O therefore, what cause have they to stand upon Mount Gerizim, blessing God, who, in a field battle, have got the better of Satan, and been more than conquerors. Say as the Psalmist (Psalm 124:6), Blessed be the Lord who has not given us as a prey to their teeth: So blessed be G…

Moreover, by this simile we are taught how blind and foolish those are, which attribute anything to themselves; for they shall get as much by their brags, as if some little vermin, such as the grasshoppers be, would rise up against the clouds in fetching their frisks: but you kn…

(3.) Many of you have seen wonders of salvation upon the deeps, where the hand of God has been signally stretched forth for your rescue and deliverance. This is elegantly expressed in Psal 107. 23, 24. 25, 26, 27. (which I have elsewhere opened at large) concerning which, you ma…

And (Exodus 7:12) the text says, that Moses his rod did swallow up the rods of the magicians. (Psalm 124:3) Unless the Lord had been on our side, they had swallowed us up quick. In all these places it is the same word we have here, you moved me to destroy him.

Thus this common relation is not to be forgotten, as he gives us our outward life and being. (Psalm 124:8) Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth: as if the Psalmist had said, As long as I see these glorious monuments of his power, these things framed out…