Psalms 126

So God sometimes makes a deliverance fly swiftly upon the wing, and on a sudden he turns the shadow of death into the light of the morning. As God gives us mercies above what we can think (Ephesians 3:20), so sometimes before we can think of them (Psalm 126:1). When the Lord tur…

God by his providence preserves his Church in the midst of enemies; which is as to see a spark kept alive in the ocean, or a flock of sheep among wolves. God saves his Church strangely, 1. By giving unexpected mercies to his Church, when she looked for nothing but ruin (Psalm 12…

David saith, The Lord prevented him with liberal blessings; that is, when David never asked such blessings at Gods hand, even then did the Lord bestow his liberal blessings upon him: as namely this, when David was following his Fathers sheep, and walking in his calling, he never…

The words infer, and take in these three, 1. A great defeat of, and victory over all the Mediator's enemies, the Devil, Death, and the Curse; He gets a great victory over them, and gives them a great defeat, so that they are quite beat off the field, as dividing the spoil implie…

It is both enlarged with no small measure of joy, that ever God should redeem him from such a desperate condition as his soul lay in, and yet also full of grief of heart, that ever he should have so much displeased that God, that has done so much for him; and so plain, as that y…

4. We serve a great Master, and so may expect great things from him. He discovers himself to his people according to the greatness and majesty of his being (Psalm 126:2-3): The Lord has done great things for them, indeed the Lord has done great things for us, of which we are gla…

12. Every believing prayer has a sure reward: He will reward you openly: Not a good word to God, or work for God, shall be lost: To him that sows righteousness, shall be a sure reward (Proverbs 11:18). And we know every right prayer is a real seed (Psalm 126:6). And it will rise…

The words in the original are thus: we shall reap in due time not fainting: which may be (and are by some) taken in a double sense: either as a promise, or as a condition. As a promise, thus, If we be not weary of well doing, we shall reap in due season without all fainting and…

When he adds, you shall weep no more, it is to show that their lamentations should not last always. The Church, that is, all the faithful, should be in great heaviness while they remained in so miserable and in so woeful an estate; but Isaiah tells them that this their sorrow sh…

For not to mention ancient histories; by what means has God delivered us out of that woeful tyranny of Antichrist? Truly we were as those that dream, as the Psalmist says (Psalm 126:1), especially if we do but seriously consider of the thing itself: for the Lord has wrought a mi…

For his meaning is, that the restoration of the Church shall be admirable, and extraordinary, in such wise that the faithful shall confess the whole work has proceeded from God's mere grace, and not from the order or course of nature. For when men think of this, they are like to…

He that sows iniquity, shall reap vanity (Proverbs 22:8). And they that now go forth weeping, and bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again rejoicing bringing their sheaves with them (Psalms 126:5). The sum of all is this, that our present actions have the same respect a…

In times of common consent men keep together as those that are bound with a chain: But in times of difference and dissenting, God's people are at one with God and one another upon higher motives, and love truth for its own sake, it being as I said more cleared and vindicated; I…

Salvation itself our walls and bulwarks. We ought to watch, but when we do in obedience to our Commander, the Captain of our Salvation, yet it is his own watching, who sleeps not, nor so much as slumbers, it is that preserves us, and makes ours not to be in vain (Psalm 126:1; Is…

If you would be cheerful (says Chrysostom), be sad. Psalm 126:5: They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. It was the end of Christ's anointing and coming into the world, that he might comfort those that mourn (Isaiah 61:3).

They that have sown in tears, do now reap in joy. They that went out weeping, bearing precious seed; now with rejoicing bring their sheaves with them (Psalm 126:6). 6. In reference to what this impressed likeness shall forever secure to it: an everlasting amity and friendship wi…

Thus I have laid down the means or helps to Repentance: What remains now, but that we set upon the work; and let us be in earnest, not as Fencers, but Warriers. I will conclude all with that of the Psalmist, (Psalm 126:6). He that goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, sha…

Salt water of tears kills the worm of conscience. 3. This sorrow is to make way for solid comfort, (Psalm 126:5). They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy.

For they say, that now he is so in the affections of his Prince, that his Sovereign is so much concerned with the indignities that were cast upon Christian when he became a pilgrim, that he will look upon all as if done to himself (Luke 10:16); and no marvel, for it was for the…