Psalms 132

First, he sanctifies all our comforts, and turns them into blessings. Health is blessed, estate is blessed, he gives with the venison a blessing (Psalm 132:15). I will abundantly bless her provision.

Answ. Supposing we have a plentiful estate, yet we need make this petition, Give us bread: And that upon a double account. (1.) That we may have a blessing upon our food, and all that we enjoy (Psalm 132:5). I will bless her provision.

2. God does nothing in the election of Peter, more than of Judas; nor can grace and mercy have place in the choosing of the one, rather than the other; but as free will is foreseen to play the game ill, or well, so go the eternal decrees of election and reprobation, and there ca…

The sense then according to their opinion should be, that the death of Christ which was ignominious before the world, shall be full of glory and majesty. But when I consider all circumstances more narrowly, the Prophet in this place by this word rest, signifies the Church: as al…

The keys of the house are given to such as are appointed the distributors of necessary things; so as they open and shut at their pleasure. The house of David signifies the kingly house: and this was a common speech among the people, because a promise was made to David, that his…

We dispute not with them now, whether Peter was ever Bishop of Rome or no: but let us grant it were undoubtedly so, yet dare they affirm that Rome had at any time the like promise that Jerusalem had? "This is my rest, here will I do all, for I have a delight therein" (Psalm 132:…

The reprehension therefore is the sharper, because they had basely sought succor of the Egyptians, trotting up and down like poor suitors. We are also to note the antithesis here which we spoke of before; to wit, that God was ready at hand, and near to be found; so as they neede…

The promises made to David, and so consequently to him, were not unknown. This is my rest, here will I dwell for ever, for I have a delight therein (Psalm 132:14). Not that this tyrant studied the prophecies to profit by them; but they were manifestly known to all, yea, that the…

To Zion.] That is to say, to that place where he once appointed his name to be called upon, that so he might assure them that the Temple should be re-edified, and God's pure worship established. For when the Jews who were in Babylon, were to look for that deliverance which their…

According to which, it is said in (Psalm 99:5). Worship the footstool of his feet, for he is holy. Also, We will enter into his Tabernacle, and worship before his footstool: (Psalm 132:7). Not that God's essence is divided into pieces, part in heaven, and part in earth; but in r…

Not that the people rested in their intercession, but in regard that God had made the covenant of grace with them, that they might deliver it over from hand to hand to their successors. Thus then the faithful set not these Patriarchs before them as common persons only, but in th…

The Temple also was built upon a little hill, which little space was unable to comprehend God's glory (1 Kings 8:27). That place of my rest.] And yet the Lord had said of the Temple, in Psalm 132:8, Behold this is my rest, here will I dwell, for I have a delight therein. And in…

This mode of expression is borrowed from the passage, "There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed," (Psalm 132:17.) But if it is only in Christ that God has put forth his power to save us, we are not at liberty to depart from that method…

I will be his father, and he shall be my son,” (2 Samuel 7:12-14.) “The Lord has sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne,” (Psalm 132:11.) Solomon was, beyond controversy, the type of this eternal King who was pr…

When Paul says, that the Jews under the law were nigh to God, (Ephesians 2:17,) and that a deadly enmity (Ephesians 2:15) subsisted between him and the Gentiles, he means only that, by shadows and figures, God then gave to the people whom he had adopted the tokens of his presenc…

And the reason of it is given, because men of this height and stature in sin, are men of troubled, unquiet and restless spirits. As it notes a height in holiness and grace, to have a kind of unquietness upon the spirit till we can do good, and compass holy designs and purposes,…

Against these workers and good men in sight, or rather hypocrites, does Paul pray, saying: that God is the God of peace, of whom these varying hypocrites and haters of peace are not partakers, nor having him, can hold the same, without they bid farewell their statutes, rules and…

This is an excellent person, and a most stately King, who yet is the believer's bridegroom; Christ's bride is nobly and honorably matched. 2. By bed here, is understood the same thing that was signified by it (chapter 1:16), to wit, that access, and nearness familiarity that the…

Thus then, to be set as a seal on his heart, does imply, 1. Exceeding great nearness to Christ, even to have a special room and seat in his heart. 2. It imports, a settledness in that condition, that she may be set there, as the Lord says of Jerusalem, (2 Kings 21:4) there I hav…

Rejoice, and again I say rejoice (Philippians 4:4). Where the command is doubled; indeed, not only simple rejoicing, but the highest degree of that duty comes within the command (Psalm 132:9, 16): Shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart. And (Luke 6:22-23) they are bid,…

But though it be his dwelling, Is it a dwelling that is lovely to him? Yes, for it is that his soul desires to be in; as if so be God counted it a kinde of honor (as we may speak with holy reverence) to have such a habitation; Psalm 132:14 Here will I dwell, for I have desired i…

That holy oil was of a most fragrant sweet smell, by reason of its precious composition, but much more sweet is the smell of that Spirit, with which believers are anointed — those several fragrant graces, that are the ingredients of their anointing oil, that heavenly mindedness,…

Never did Suitor take such pleasure in a Person he loved, as God does in them that Fear him; they are his Hephsibah, or chief solace, Isaiah. 62:4. He says of them as of Sihon, Psalm 132:14. Here is my rest for ever, here will I dwell.

The dove delights in the purest air; the Holy Spirit, who descended in the likeness of a dove, delights in the purest soul. God says of the pure in heart, as Psalm 132:14: This is my rest forever; here will I dwell. God loves the fairest complexion; the pure in heart is Christ's…

It is hence a free voluntary chosen rest: Such as God professes his own to be in Zion. This is my rest, here will I dwell, for I have desired it (Psalm 132:14). It is a complacential rest, wherein the soul abides steady bound only by the cords of love; a rest in the midst of ple…

(3.) From Covenant prayers and church prayers — contrary to (1 Samuel 12; Psalm 28:9; Psalm 67:1-2; Psalm 103:4-5). (4.) From the blessing of the Lord's Covenant-presence, who dwells in the Nation, in the Kingdom (Psalm 135:21, Psalm 132:13-14, Revelation 11:15, Isaiah 19:25, Is…

31. He seeing this before spoke of the Resurrection. ([reconstructed: Psalm 132:11]) The Lord has sworn in truth to David, he will not turn from it, of the fruit of your body will I set upon your Throne. 12. If your children shall keep my Covenant, and my Testimony that I shall…

Use. As we would be reputed godly, let us labor for this Character of sincerity. 1. Sincerity renders us lovely in God's eyes; God says of the sincere soul as of Zion, Psalm 132. 14. This is my rest for ever, here will I dwell, for I have desired it: A sincere heart is God's Par…

2nd Commandment: You shall make to yourself no graven image, etc. He breaks this commandment: who represents God in an image (Exodus 32:6-8); who worships God in or at images, as crucifixes and such like (2 Kings 18:4); who kneels down before an image; who is bodily present at M…

Now faith in the heart will not rest till it has cleared itself, as First, it will be very unquiet, till it come to discern itself, and that is an undoubted testimony that faith is there; it so boils and wrestles against these unquiet doubtings (Psalm 132:4-5), it will not rest…