Psalms 144

So it is with a man that has not God to be his God: If one comfort be taken away, he has another: If he lose a child, he has an estate: But then the waters rise higher, death comes and takes away all; now he has nothing to help himself with, no God to go to, he must needs die de…

In short, God will be our guide to death, our comfort in death, our reward after death. So then the utility of it may make us cleave to the Lord as our God (Psalm 144:15): Happy is that people who have the Lord for their God. 3. From the necessity: 1. If God be not our God, he w…

Thus you see what is that prayer which is most likely to prevail with God. Use 1. It reproves, 1. Such as pray not at all; it is made the note of a reprobate, he calls not upon God (Psalm 144). Does he think to have an alms who never asks it?

Third, in urging this doctrine more hardly upon the people, to cause them not to rest on the letter of the law, but seek to the promised Messiah, in whom only was their righteousness — as young heirs and minors are kept under tutors while their minority expires. But, first, who…

Therefore when we begin to magnify the riches, pomp and pleasures of the world, the devil is at our elbow, and we are running into the snare. And therefore if we begin to say, happy is the people that is in such a case, it is time to correct ourselves and say, indeed happy is th…

Is there any estate so blessed as to be in God's favor, especially seeing this blessedness cannot be taken from us? For it is not said without cause in (Psalm 144:15), That the people are blessed which have the Lord for their God. Answer: I answer, she is miserable only in appea…

Surely God deals familiarly with men! his condescensions to his own clay are astonishing! All that I shall note at present about it, shall be under these three heads, wherein I find the matter of my present meditations summed up by the Psalmist, Psalm 144:3 Lord what is man, tha…

And five hundred yoke of oxen. Oxen for the tillage of the ground: Their oxen are strong to labor (Psalm 144). The asses were for ordinary travel, and for ordinary burdens about the house.

3. They wound her: this is a further step, and implies such a smiting as continues till the person be wounded, denoting a higher degree of cruelty, such as is the persecuting of those whom God has smitten, and talking to their grief (Psalm 69:26), which will exceedingly wound a…

The rest of the soul is not disturbed, its comforts not plundered, its government not disordered, the laws of religion and reason rule, and not the sword — the trading duties are not interrupted, neither its communion with God, nor its communion with the saints intercepted, no b…

For the sense. God may be said to be blessed objectively, or subjectively. First, Objectively, as he is the Object of our blessedness; it is our blessedness to enjoy God (Psalm 144:15). Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.

But when they come to be damned, neither riches, nor honors, nor pleasures will descend with them. Wicked men would be content with the good they have, if they might have it always, if (Dives-like) they might be clothed with purple, and fine linen, and fare deliciously for ever,…

4. A man may pray much for temporal things, and little for spiritual things, and such are the prayers of most men, crying out most for temporal things; more for who will show us any good? than for Lord lift upon us the light of your countenance. David copies out the prayer of su…

2. Blessedness lies in the fruition of the chief good; it is not every good that makes a man blessed, but it must be the supreme good, and that is God. Psalm 144:15: Happy is that people whose God is the Lord. God is the rest of the soul, here the soul does rest: Psalm 116:7.

That persecution cannot hinder us from being blessed, I shall prove by four demonstrations. They are blessed who have God for their God (Psalm 144:15): happy is that people whose God is the Lord. But persecution cannot hinder us from having God for our God (Daniel 3:17): our God…

3. The saints are already blessed, because they are in covenant with God. This is clear by comparing two scriptures: Jeremiah 31:33, I will be their God; and Psalm 144:15, Happy is that people whose God is the Lord. This is the crowning blessing, to have the Lord for our God; it…

When a Christian sees a deficiency in himself, he may see an all-sufficiency in his Savior. Happy is that people whose God is the Lord (Psalm 144). That servant need not lack who has his master's full purse at command; he need not lack who has Christ, for Christ is all and in al…

Jeremiah 7:23: obey, and I will be your God; I will make over myself to you by a deed of gift. What a superlative distinguishing mercy is this! Psalm 144:15: happy is that people whose God is the Lord. Eternal blessings (Hebrews 5:9): Christ became the author of eternal salvatio…

Such are our thoughts among other evils which are said to come out of the heart (Mark 7:22) — [a word in the non-Latin alphabet] is reckoned as one: foolishness — that is, thoughts that are such as madmen have, and fools, nothing to the purpose, of which there can be made no use…