Psalms 145

His royal diadem (Isaiah 62:3). He gives them the cream and flower of his love: He not only opens his hand and fills them (Psalm 145:16), but opens his heart and fills them. 5. If God be our God, he will do more for us than all the world besides can.

Every line of the Word breathes sanctity; it encourages nothing but holiness. 3. God is holy in his operations; all God does is holy: he cannot act but like himself; he can no more do an unrighteous action, than the sun can darken (Psalm 145:17): "The Lord is holy in all his wor…

2. Imitate God in works of mercy: He loosens the prisoners (Psalm 146:7). He opens his hand, and satisfies the desire of every living thing (Psalm 145:16). He drops his sweet dew as well upon the thistle as the rose; imitate God in works of mercy, relieve the wants of others, be…

We have a good copy to write after. Our Master in Heaven is slow to anger, and of great mercy (Psalm 145:8). Some masters are so harsh and implacable, that they are enough to spoil a good servant.

Secondly, to communicate to the necessities of others is not arbitrary (it's not left to our choice whether we will or no), but it is a duty incumbent. 1 Timothy 6:17. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they do good — that they be rich in good works. This is not only…

Position 6. Even the worst taste of God's mercy; such as fight against God's mercy taste of it: the wicked have some crumbs from mercy's table. "The Lord is good to all" (Psalm 145:[illegible]). The sweet dew drops on the thistle as well as the rose.

And on the contrary, Lack God and lack all. And therefore David says, Psalm 145:15, Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord. Other things, which here might be added, have been handled before.

My soul desires after you, as the thirsty land. Psalm 145:19. He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him.

Argument 2. Argument 2. By this we resemble God, who is a God of mercy. He is said to delight in mercy, Micah 7. 18. His mercies are over all his works, Psalm 145. 9. He requites good for evil.

'Tis not only the aim of the Word, but of Providence, and of all the dispensations of God to the creature, to represent him merciful. The whole world is a great volume, written within and without with characters and lines of mercy: (Psalm 145:7) his mercy is over all his works;…

In (Psalm 45:6) your Throne (O God) is for ever and ever: the Scepter of your Kingdom is a right Scepter. In (Psalm 145:13) your Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom: and your Dominion endures throughout all generations. In (Psalm 149:2) let the children of Zion rejoice in their Ki…

1. The key of the Rain; and that you have in (Deuteronomy 28:12): The Lord shall open to you his good treasure, the Heaven to give you rain to your Land in his season. 1. There's the key of Food; in (Psalm 145): The eyes of all wait upon you, and you give them their meat in due…

For that law differs from nature itself only by its relation to a certain object. This law, therefore, teaches that God exists and is to be worshipped, and that right and justice are to be observed among men — as Scripture also testifies: Ps. 145:15; 141:7–9; Job 12:7–10; 37–39;…

For though He is provoked by them daily, He does not immediately seize them away, but even heaps upon them many benefits, to be demanded back at the appointed time (Hosea 2:9). Moreover, this benignity of God is called mercy in a broad and improper sense, taken for any dispositi…

Hence a dependence upon God necessarily accompanies the existence of all things, and is suited to the principles of nature which He has communicated to each one. All creatures therefore, as such, and each according to the capacity and disposition with which they are endowed, cel…

We contrariwise, either wholly neglect them as (Isaiah 6:12), or else in lightness, &c. in which sort we speak sometime of women, sometime of holy matrimony, yes, sometime of the joys of heaven, and pains of hell, making foolish and vain plays of these things. The use or end of…

Now God consults with no body, but if he give us a heart to wait and stay, assure yourselves he means not to send you empty away, but it is an undoubted argument he will give us an answer, because you can thus wait upon him. Fourthly, there is a fourth work of this unction, and…

1. Let your heart be deeply possessed with apprehensions of the goodness, wisdom and power of God. The Scripture tells us for his goodness (Psalm 119:68): You are good, and do good: and again (Psalm 145:9): The Lord is good to all. For his wisdom (Isaiah 28:29): He is wonderful…

What makes the Christian to be so sedulous and diligent in duties of worship? so awful and observant of God? his all comes from God, both in natural life, and spiritual. In natural life, (Psalm 145:15-18) "The eyes of all things wait on you, and you give them their food in due s…

Oh how low should we lie before this great God (Genesis 18:27): Who am I that am but dust and ashes, that I should speak to God. 3. That we must not please ourselves with the performance of ordinary service to him, but we should raise it to an eminent degree of worship and adora…

Now the reasons why we ought especially to do good to them of the household of faith, may be these. First, because God loves all his creatures, specially mankind, most especially the faithful, upon whom he does bestow the riches of his love, yea himself also: for though God be g…

The Prophet then condemns not the lifting up of the hands simply, but their hypocrisy, whereby in appearance they made show to call upon God, but in their hearts they were far from him, as in chapter 29 he does more fully charge them. The Lord confesses indeed that he is near; b…

Therefore, Saint Peter is thus to be understood: Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, that is, whatever it shall please God to lay upon us, whether it seem to us good or bad, pleasant or grievous, honorable or ignominious, lucky or unlucky, it is our parts and duties, not only…

For, The Holiness of God is manifested to us in all his works of Providence, Psalm 145:17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. The Instruments used by Providence may be very sinful & wicked, they may aim at base ends, & make use of wicked mediums to…

He does so in his Judgements, Malachi 3:5 I will come nigh to you in judgement. He comes nigh in mercies also, Psalm 145:18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, &c. Yea, he is said to visit us by his Providence when he corrects, Hosea 9:7 and when he saves and deli…

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the Throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order it, and to establish it with judgement and with justice from henceforth and for ever (Isaiah 9:7). His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not p…

The clouds cannot open themselves, the floodgates of Heaven cannot be unlocked, nor those sluices opened to let down a drop of rain, until God turns the key (Deuteronomy 28:12): the Lord shall open to you his good treasure, the Heaven to give the rain to your land in his season.…

1. Psalms — such were used, both with voice and instruments. 2. There were hymns (so Psalm 145 is entitled) such in the matter of them, were wholly made up of praise, and what immediately led to that. 3. There were spiritual songs, which were more extensive in the matter, taking…

Observation 1. Our Lord Jesus has a design, a gracious design, that he is carrying on among his people, and he is ever promoting therein for the end which he has proposed; he is not like the idols of the Gentiles (Psalm 115:7), which have feet and walk not, but as he sees with h…

That his judgments are unsearchable, and his ways past finding out (Romans 11:33). And that even then he is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works (Psalm 145:17). And when clouds and darkness are round about him, righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his…

Here is the Fountain, the Stream, the Cistern: the Fountain, God; the Stream, Goodness; the Cistern into which it runs, Israel. Indeed God is good to all (Psalm 145:9). The sweet dew falls upon the thistle as well as the rose.

2. The natural man never misses life and quickening influences in the word, the spiritual does (Psalm 119:50): This is my comfort in mine affliction, for your word has quickened me. Its not a bad property of the earth to gape and thirst for rain, there is no such gaping and thir…

(Psalm 135:5) For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all Gods. But the place that I would chiefly commend to you is this: (Psalm 145:3) Great is the Lord, and most worthy to be praised: and his greatness is unsearchable. Where you see, that it is an infini…

The Psalmist says, There are in it things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts, Psalm 104:25. And we read, Genesis 1:20. that when God blessed the Waters he said, Let the Waters bring forth abundantly, both Fish and Fowl, that move in it, and fly about it. Yet all t…

APPLICATION. This in a lively manner shadows forth the infinite and incomprehensible Mercy of our God; whose Mercy is said to be over all his works, Psalm 145:9. In how many sweet Notions is the Mercy of God represented to us in the Scripture. He is said to be Plenteous, Psalm 4…

All thy works praise thee. Psalm 145:10, and so forth. The Heavens declare the Glory of God, and the firmament tells the works of his hands.

For in this perfect form of prayer, Christ teaches us, not only to ask things needful for ourselves, but to ascribe to God things proper to him. There are two words used in this case in Scripture, praise and blessing: praise relates to God's excellency; and blessing, to his bene…

1. He gives these mercies to those that cannot return any service to him. The beasts, and fowls of the air, the young ravens: (Psalm 145:16). You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. What can the beasts, or fishes, or fowls of the air deserve at God's ha…

1. This common relation binds us to pray to him: all things which God has made, by a secret instinct they are carried to God for their supply. Psalm 145:15: "The eyes of all things look up to you." In their way they pray to him, and moan to him for their supplies, even very beas…

This divine Fear will appear admirable, if you consider how it is mixed and interwoven with several of the Graces. 1. The Fear of God is mixed with Love, Psalm 145:19, 20. The Chast Spouse fears to displease her Husband because she loves him: There's a necessity that fear and lo…

Job had but a glimpse of God, and he was even swallowed up with divine amazement, Job 42:5. Now mine Eye sees you, wherefore I abhorr my self. 3. There is Majesty in Gods Words, he speaks with Majesty; as when he gave the Law in thundring, insomuch that the people said, Let not…

Moreover Saint Paul's intent (as I have declared already) is to exclude all counterfeiting, and that we should not hope to justify our case before God by ceremonies, or by popish holiness (as they term it) in making of long prayers and many circumstances, but suffer the Spirit t…

If we hear it reported that God has prospered his church, or showed mercy to his people a hundred leagues off, and to be short, if we hear of anything that ought to make us glad: it becomes our mouths to be open to praise God for it. Now if we are bound to do this for the good t…

He is not only blessedness itself, but willing to communicate and give it out to the creature, especially his saints. He fills all created things with his blessedness (Psalm 145:16): "You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing." There is not a creature in t…

He that satisfies the gaping of the young Raven, will these desires. A strong affection to the word, is the argument that moves God (Psalm 145:19). He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him; he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

1. All natures have a propension to their perfect estate; as fire to go upward, where its place is; and heavy bodies to move downward, where is their seat and rest; plants have a virtue in their seed which is ever working to produce their flower; beasts have an appetite by which…

Certainly where there is this earnest working of heart towards God and this desire, the Lord will fill it. The gaping of young ravens God satisfies it, the Psalmist concludes from there (Psalm 145:19): He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry…

That he is so gracious and condescending, when his first covenant seemed to bind him to destroy us, that he that hates sin is so ready to forgive it, pardons it so often, and punishes it so seldom. 5. He is communicative, it is over all his works (Psalm 145:9). Not a creature bu…

Surely God never intended they should be buried in dark oblivion, but that after-ages may be the better for the remembrance of them. Witness these Scriptures, (Psalm 145:4) One generation shall praise your works to another, and remember your mighty acts. (Joel 1:3) Tell your chi…

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you, which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men (Psalm 39:19). The name of his power (Psalm 145:3). Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, his greatness is unsearchable.…