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).

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."

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…

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.

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…

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…