Psalms 133

There is but one God, and they that serve him should be one. There is nothing would render the true religion more lovely, or make more proselytes to it, than to see the professors of it tied together with the heart-strings of love (Psalm 133:1): Behold how good and pleasant a th…

Justin Martyr says, that which converted him to Christianity was the beholding the blameless lives of the Christians. 8. If God be our Father, let us love all that are his children; (Psalm 133:1) How pleasant is it for brothers to dwell together in unity. It is compared to ointm…

(3) See question the eighth and ninth. (4) Exodus 29:42, 43, 45; Deuteronomy 14:23; Psalm 133:3; Matthew 18:20; Revelation 21:3. (5) Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 4:23, 24; Joshua 24:19; Ezekiel 16.

As Christ was anointed with the Holy Ghost, descending on him like a Dove, so Christians also 'have an Anointing from the Holy One, 1 John 2:20, 27. And they are anointed with the same Oil; it is the same 'precious Ointment on the Head, that goes down to the Skirts of the Garmen…

It is a very comely thing for brethren and sisters to live together in unity. In Job's children we have that of Psalm 133 fulfilled, Behold (he calls all to look upon it) how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Such a sight may draw all eyes after it.

Observation 1. That there is a most friendly union and familiar relation among all believers; they are companions in this respect, though there may be many differences in externals, which this takes not away. 2. Believers ought to walk friendly together, according to that relati…

But meekness is the cement of society, the bond of Christian communion; it smooths and polishes the materials of that beautiful fabric, and makes them lie close and tight, and the living stones which are built up a spiritual house, to be like the stones of the temple that Herod…

Secondly, God communicates his mercies more fully then any where else: Isa. 25:6 And in this mountain, that is, in the Church, I will make a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, &c. and Psalm 36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied wit…

In the pouring out of his love there is not one drop falls outside the Lord Christ. The holy anointing oil was all poured on the head of Aaron, Psalm 133:2, and thence went down to the skirts of his clothing. Love is first poured out on Christ, and from him it drops as the dew o…

And again, that when we once know how we have a father in heaven which has adopted us to be his children, and that Jesus Christ has vouchsafed to take our flesh and substance upon him, to the intent that we should be flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone: the same should move…

But peaceableness of spirit brings the sweet music of peace along with it; it makes a calm and harmony in the soul. Therefore the psalmist says it is not only good but pleasant to live together in unity (Psalm 133:1). Fifth, a peaceable disposition is a godlike disposition.

It was an honor to religion in Tertullian's time when the heathens could say: see how the Christians love one another! Psalm 133:1: behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity — it is like the precious ointment upon the head that runs down to t…

He likes the House, and will have it to dwell in whatever it cost him. Here (says he) shall be my habitation and my dwelling for ever (Psalm 133). Know you not (says the Apostle) that you are the temple of the Spirit of Christ?

So that setting upon the work of redemption he looks upon this, in the first place the Spirit of the Lord God (said he) is upon me, because the Lord God has anointed me, to preach the glad tidings to the meek, he has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to…

mercy has wings; the sword of justice oft lies a long time in the scabbard, and rusts, till sin does draw it out and whet it against a Nation; God's justice is like the widow's oil, which ran a while, and ceased, 1 Kings 4:6. God's mercy is like Aaron's oil, which rested not on…

No marvel they be soon shaken and removed: they lack this girdle of truth, which should strengthen them. 2. If we find truth seated in our understanding, then are we further to observe whether like the ointment poured on Aaron's head, and the dew that fell on the mountains of Zi…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because, the Lord Jehovah, in his visible church (ordinarily) commands the blessing, even life for evermore (Psalm 133:3). (2) Because, the visible church, is the mother of all believers (Galatians 4:26).

(2) Because, life eternal, and death eternal, are in Scripture opposed to one another in the same sense (Matthew 25:46). But life eternal in Scripture, is not taken for being simply eternal, but for being eternally happy, or to be in a blessed eternal state and condition (Psalm…