Psalms 140

Isaiah 32:8 2 Corinthians 9:6 The liberal soul deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things he shall stand. And when you see the evils men have done, or intended to do to the Lords people, recoiling upon themselves; he is perfectly blind, that sees not the harmony such Provide…

(2.) And how many deadly dangers has his hand rescued some of you from, in those years of confusion and public calamity, when the Sword was bathed in blood, and made horrid slaughter, when it may be, your lives were often given you for a prey? This David put a special remarque u…

This the Apostle, Romans 3 cites as a Description of all natural Men. So it is said of the wicked, Psalm 140:3: They have sharpened their Tongues as a Serpent, Adder's Poison is under their Lips; which the same Apostle in the same Place also cites as what is said of all natural…

Partly as he is the portion of the afflicted and oppressed. (Psalm 140:12) I know the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted: and the right of the poor. When Satan stirs up his instruments to hate those whom the Lord loves, the Lord will stir up his power to protect and d…

So the Prophet, to you be it spoken, you are weighed in the balance and found too light, your Kingdom is departed from you. So Conscience as God's officer comes to see execution done, and therefore comes authorized as a sergeant to arrest, as a witness to accuse, as a judge to c…

Therefore he is compared to an adamant (Zechariah 7:11), because his heart melts not in mercy. Before conversion the sinner is compared to a wolf for his savageness, to a lion for his fierceness, to a bee for his sting (Psalm 118:12), to an adder for his poison (Psalm 140:3). By…