Psalms 146

The more deeply sensible we are of God's Covenant-Love to us, the sweeter praises we should yield. We should begin here to eternize God's name, and do that work on earth, which we shall be always doing in Heaven (Psalm 146:2). While I live will I praise the Lord.

In religion there is no music but in concert, when heart and tongue join. 4. Praise God for deliverance constantly (Psalm 146:2). While I live will I bless the Lord: some will be thankful while the memory of a deliverance is fresh, and then they leave off.

Has Christ a place in the celestial mansions, so have the saints (John 14:2): In my Father's house are many mansions, I go to prepare a place for you. Has he his Father's love, so have they (Psalm 146:8; John 17:26): That the love with which you have loved me may be in them. Doe…

We are called the temples of God (1 Corinthians 3:16), and where should God's praises be sounded forth but in his temples? (Psalm 146:2): "While I live will I bless the Lord, I will sing praises to my God while I have any being." God gives us daily bread, let us give him daily p…

Things we prize we love. The righteous are God's treasure (Psalm 135:4), and where his treasure is, there is his heart: they are God's delicious garden, where he plants the flower of his love (Psalm 146:8). They are the dearly beloved of his soul (Jeremiah 12:7).

Thus the people spake in respect of their Kings. This Scripture may well be a comment upon that text we have in (Psalm 146:3): Put not your trust in Princes, &c. Do not put your trust in Princes, have no confidence in them; if you put your trust in them, they will be unuseful to…

Here is forbidden first, the want of these, and the contrary, as to waver or doubt (Psalm 13:1, 3; Psalm 88:15); to leave our hope (Hebrews 10:39); to despair (Genesis 8:13); impatience (Jeremiah 20:14, 18); to have trust in ordinary means, and to make flesh our arm, is forbidde…

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…

The Seventy render it [in non-Latin alphabet]. Psalm 146. It is pleasant, and sweet. 2 Samuel 1:26. You were very pleasant to me.

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…

He thereby sets forth the fragility of mankind: namely, that the life of man is but a breath which forthwith vanishes away; and as David says, If the Lord withdraws the spirit, man returns to his dust: Also, His spirit departs, and he returns to his earth (Psalm 104:29). Again,…

Thus they grew proud, taking themselves to be no more men; and that they might utterly free themselves from yielding obedience to God. For this cause we are often admonished in the holy Scriptures, not to trust in man, because nothing is more vain than he (Psalm 146:3). Cursed b…

the word of God is like a lamp, (Psalm 119:105;) but it shines in darkness and amidst the blind, until the inward light is given by the Lord, to whom it peculiarly belongs to enlighten the blind, (Psalm 146:8.) And hence it is evident how great is the corruption of our nature, s…

'Tis mentioned as one of the three great Things of which Religion consists, 1 Corinthians 13. 13. Hope in the Lord is also frequently mentioned as the Character of the Saints: Psalm 146. 5. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his Help, whose Hope is in the Lord his God.

4. However men may quarrel with Christ's way, and say it's not equal, as (Ezekiel 18:25), and although his way may be sometimes in the deep waters, and not discernible (Psalm 77:19), yet, it is ever ordered in deep wisdom, that there can be nothing more just, holy and glorious,…

By these judgments God has shown to London the weakness and insufficiency of arms of flesh — what broken reeds they are. Some put their trust in men, and their great expectation of relief and comfort has been from their friends; by the plague God has shown, how frail and weak ma…

"Unto God the Lord belong the issues from death." So as to opening the eyes of the blind: Psalm 146:8. "The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind."

And what way God plagues hypocrisy with farther hypocrisy, and by all sins? Heart-deceitfulness is within itself a rooting of itself: now this deceitfulness being so contrary to sincere and singleness of heart must be incapable of influences, for the upright and sincere heart, a…

We shall have waterings, and the believer's well shall never run dry (Psalm 104:33). I will sing to the Lord as long as I live (Psalm 104:33; Psalm 146:1; Psalm 52:8, 9). Then he knew of a stock and a new furniture in heaven, suppose his own well should go dry.

The question is the same of elicite acts, of love, fear, hope, faith, and of imperate acts of praying, hearing, praising; only the difference is, hardly can we set a time to believing; the object sometime wakens us (Psalm 56:3): What time I am afraid, I'll trust in you; otherwis…

I have seen the white side of Christ's cross; lovely has he been to his oppressed servant. (Psalm 146:7) the Lord executes judgment for the oppressed, he gives food to the hungry, the Lord loosens the prisoner, the Lord raises them that are bowed down, the Lord preserves the str…

Therefore learn, not to regard men as we do, but to regard the Lord only, and that in these three respects. 1. Learn to trust the Lord, and not man, for God is an everlasting refuge (Psalm 146:3-4): Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help;…

They are Vain Thoughts which are about Foolish things, and run all into straw. They are Vain Thoughts which do not Better the Heart, nor will give one drop of Comfort at death, Psalm 146:4. In that very day his Thoughts perish.

Yet so they did hope that they should be exalted again, indeed a great deal more honorably, and set in higher authority than at any time before, when they lived in abominable wickedness, in all dissolute behavior, having their hearts hardened, so that they could not repent. They…

Some will be thankful while the memory of the mercy is fresh, but afterwards leave off; The Carthaginians used at first; to send the tenth of their yearly revenue to Hercules, but by degrees they grew weary, and left off sending. David as long as he drew his breath, would chirp…

If we grant these things, then it is assured that there falls not a drop of rain but by the certain commandment of God. David praises the general providence of God, that he gives meat to the ravens, birds that call upon him (Psalm 146:9): but when God himself threatens famine to…

Now there are greater and more evident Impressions of Divine Excellencies left on the written Word from the Infinite Wisdom of the Author of it, than any that are communicated unto the Works of God, of what sort whatsoever. Hence David comparing the Works and the Word of God, as…

They have yet much work to do, might they have but space given them to execute the bloody and sinful purposes of their minds. The Psalmist tells us (Psalm 146:4), in the day that the breath of man goes forth, his thoughts perish: he had many contrivances about sin, but now they…

We cannot trust in men, because there is nothing in man to be a foundation of our confidence; his good will towards us may change, his power may faint, and he may grow weary; or if these continue, yet they that have a mind and a power to help us, themselves may fail. Therefore t…

First, I say, faith in the providence — which is a thing of much moment, and we are apt to forget it. We see it clearly, Psalm 146:5-6: 'Blessed is he that trusts in the God of Jacob, who made heaven and earth and the sea, who keeps covenant and mercy forever.' You see faith the…

All the creatures are ships to the believer without a bottom: They are empty and weak: David forbids us to ride on a prince (Psalm 146:3-4), For that horse shall faint, and fall to clay. God allows Scotland to help England, but will not have the souls of his children in England…

4. It is put for inconstancy, and frailty; therefore vanity and a shadow are made synonyms (Psalm 144:4): such are our thoughts, flitting and perishing, as bubbles. Psalm 146:4 — all their thoughts perish. Lastly, they are vain, that is, indeed, wicked and sinful; vanity in the…

Lo, thus by the mercy and grace of God, and not by their own nature, these vain and void works are without sin, and so by faith, laboring with the same mercy they are good. And so for our works we may be afraid, but for the mercy of God we may be comforted, as it is written in P…