Psalms 147

2. Political, peace in the state. Peace is the nurse of plenty (Psalm 147:14): He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest of the wheat. How pleasant is it when the waters of blood begin to assuage, and we can see the windows of our ark open, and the dove retur…

Use 1. Here we may take notice of God's goodness, who has not left us without a Law. Therefore the Lord does often set it down as a demonstration of his love, in giving his Commandments (Psalm 147:20). He has not dealt so with any nation, and as for his judgments they have not k…

He will bless us first in our estate (Deuteronomy 28:4-5): Blessed shall be the fruit of your ground, blessed shall be your basket and your store: We shall not only have our sack full of corn, but it shall be blessed: Here is money in the mouth of the sack. 2. He will bless us w…

Were God all justice, it might frighten us from him, but his mercy may be a loadstone to draw us to him. Use 2, Branch 1: Hope in God's mercies (Psalm 147:11). The Lord takes pleasure in them that fear him, and hope in his mercy.

(Psalm 10:11). God has forgotten, he hides his face, he will never see it. But (Psalm 147:5). His understanding is infinite. He has a grate (Crates) that looks into men's breasts: he has a key for the heart, he beholds all the sinful workings of men's spirits: As in a glass hive…

Use 1. See the wonderful goodness of God, who besides the light of nature, has committed to us the sacred Scriptures. The heathens are enveloped with ignorance (Psalm 147:20). As for his judgments, they have not known them.

Beg God's Holy Spirit. Psalm 147:18: he causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow. When the wind of God's Spirit blows upon us, then the waters of repentant tears will flow from us.

That among all virgins that were brought before the king, that Esther should find favor in the eyes of the king, was not without God's special Providence; for by this means the Lord saved the Jews alive that were destined to destruction. Providence reaches to the least of things…

Riches are the gift of God (2 Chronicles 1:12). I will give you riches; peace is the gift of God (Psalms 147:14). He makes peace in your borders; health, which is the cream of life, is the gift of God (Jeremiah 30:17).

This alone is contained in the first precept: that God was to be worshipped they knew, and that he was to be worshipped by ways and means of his own appointment they knew; but what those ways and means were, they knew not. These always depended on God's Sovereign will and pleasu…

Ephesians 3:5. The mystery of Christ in other ages was not opened to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy Apostles. Psalm 147:19-20. He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel: he has not dealt so with every nation, neither have they known…

Herein were they distinguished from the residue of mankind, whom God suffered to walk in their own ways, and winked at their ignorance, while they perished all in the pursuit of their foolish imaginations. This a great part of the Book of Deuteronomy is designed to impress a sen…

[⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], you would not, you desire not sacrifice, (Genesis 34:11). He had delight in Jacob's daughter, (Psalm 147:10). So [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] the noun is, delight, (Psalm 1:2).

So in the Revelation the twenty-four elders fall down before him, and say, You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor, and power: giving this reason, for you have created all things, and for your will's sake they are and have been created (Revelation 4:11). Read the Psal…

The doctrine of Salvation first came out from God, and then was conveyed to us by the hands of holy men; we are not sensible enough of the privilege. Psalm 147:19, 20: He shows his Word to Jacob, his statutes and judgments to Israel, he has not dealt so with any nation, &c. 'Tis…

It is not a bare sight of things that is here meant by God's eye, but a sight and knowledge in order to the governing and disposing of them. View this doctrine at your leisure, preached by God himself, with an inconceivable elegancy, and three whole chapters spent in the sermon…

Since, therefore, it is acknowledged that by theology is denoted both the doctrine concerning God, the worship and obedience due to Him, and the power and faculty of our mind by which we perceive it — that is, the habit conformed to it — to avoid confusion arising from equivocat…

And who will hinder us from thinking according to the dictates of the Holy Spirit? See Psalm 8, also Psalm 145:8–15, Psalm 147:4–6; Job 12:7–10, 37–39; Isaiah 40:12; Matthew 6:26. This argument is pressed by either God Himself or His prophets in His name in many passages.

But that it can happen, with respect to the outcome, that which God from eternity willed not to happen — that has not yet been proved. That it is not actually preached to many, nor ever was preached in former times, Scripture ascribes to the will of God (Psalms 147:19, 20; Matth…

And frequently in the Song, as in chapter 2 and 6, He is said to feed among the lilies; there is all the entertainment that He gets in the world, He feasts only on the fruits of His own Spirit in them that welcome Him. I shall name but one place more, and that is Psalm 147:10-11…

But then the question is, whether these means be the preaching of the Gospel, or of the same God revealed as Creator, by the Sun, Moon, and Stars, who is revealed in the Gospel, and salvation by him. Now the Sun, and Stars, and heaven declare the glory of God, and sound forth hi…

3. Rather I think it is taken for his providential word, or commanded blessing: for as God made all things by his word, so he upholds all things by the word of his power (Hebrews 1:3). His powerful word does all in the world (Psalm 147:15): "He sends forth his commandment on the…

Likewise then as Agar the bondmaid brought forth to Abraham a son, and yet not an heir but a servant, so Sinai the allegorical Agar, brought forth to God a son, that is to say, a carnal people. Again, as Ishmael was the true son of Abraham, so the people of Israel had the true G…

But he will afflict you that so you may be humbled, and know that you have need of mercy, and the benefit of Christ. This holding in prison then under the law, must not always endure, but must only continue to the coming or revealing of Faith: which this sweet verse of Psalm 147…

Answer: Here the Jews are opposed to sinners of the Gentiles: and therefore by the Jews, are meant a holy, and peculiar people. The distinction therefore lies in this, that the one was holy, the other profane: the one in the covenant, the other out of the covenant (Romans 9:4-5;…

For before, the grace of God was shut up as it were in Israel, in regard that the Lord had made a covenant with this people only, and had spread out his cord upon Jacob; as Moses speaks (Deuteronomy 32:9). And David says, God has not dealt so with every nation, neither had they…

But it is far otherwise with God: he has always his soldiers at a beck, indeed by number — that is to say, he knows the count of them, so as none absents himself. He calls them all by their names.] This sentence is in so many words contained in Psalm 147. Some expound it as if G…

These are no needless repetitions therefore, but were of necessity to be added for the sustentation of the weak, that that which otherwise was incredible, might be assuredly confirmed to them. Who gathers &c.] Isaiah gives God this title in regard of the circumstance of the matt…

He adds round about, that they might certainly know the people should not come from one nation alone, but from all parts, to be knit together into one body. Neither does he alone promise an end, and a remedy to the scattering which was to come, as in (Psalm 147:2) and (chapter 5…

Behold the Eye of the Lord is upon them that Fear him, upon them that Hope in his Mercy. Psalm 147. 11. The Lord taketh Pleasure in them that Fear him, in those that Hope in his Mercy.

Therefore if we aim at the having our spirits placed and settled in the secret of the divine presence, entertained with the delights of it; if we would know and have the sensible proof of that religion which is all life and power, and consequently sweetness and pleasure; our dir…

And first, Labour to work into your hearts a deep and fixed sense of the infinite wisdom of God, and your own folly and ignorance. This will make resignation easie to you: whatsoever the Lord does is by counsel, Ephesians 1:11 his understanding is infinite, Psalm 147:5 his thoug…

And their privilege it was. For although in comparison of the substance and glory of things to be brought in by Christ, with the liberty and spirituality of Gospel worship, all their ordinances and institutions were a yoke of bondage, yet considering their use, with their end an…

To be love, full of love, to be the especial spring of all fruits of love, is peculiar to him as the Father. And from love it is that he makes the revelation of his will whereof we speak (Deuteronomy 7:8; c. 33.3; Psalm 147:19, 20; 2 Corinthians 5:18, 19). It was out of infinite…

The first is, verse 11: Rise (says he) and come away; for there is no hazard now to travel this journey, because what might scare you is done away, the winter-cold and storm is past; and the rain that makes rivers impassable, and journeys dangerous and wearisome (therefore, it's…

1. A man's way in the series of his carriage and deportment, as ordinarily his life is called a walk: so, (Ecclesiastes 5:1) Take heed to your feet, that is, to your carriage; hence the iniquities of the heels are spoken of (Psalm 49:5) to set out men's defects, that cleave to t…

If taken passively, he is gone down to feed, that is, that himself may eat, and it is the same with what was, (Song of Solomon 5:1) I have come to my garden, I have eaten, etc. and the scope in both, looks to be the same. So the meaning of the similitude is, that as men have the…

(1.) Such as are afforded to the Gentiles, who have not the Gospel, namely, the light of a natural conscience, and the common strivings of the Spirit of God in them; they are therefore said to be a law to themselves, and their consciences to bear witness, and either to accuse or…

Low valleys lying toward the Sun kindly receive dew and rain, mountains not so. 3. If the bones be of new broken and hot, and the wound green, the tender hand of Christ lovingly and compassionately binds up such broken ones (Isaiah 61:1; Psalm 147:3). He heals the broken in hear…

2. All things to be, and never to be, are written in his book (Psalms 139:16); the number of David's members; all the hairs of the head are numbered (Matthew 10:30); all the piles of dust and sand, all the drops of dew, rain, hail, snow, all the drops of the sea, rivers, lakes,…

2. No natural necessity, such as that of the Sun to give light, the fire to cast out heat. Nor 3. No brutish necessity void of a discoursing faculty, such as that of the swallow building her nest, the bee making honey; but we must say there was some eminent, holy and spotless ne…

Where you see, that it is an infinite, and incomprehensible greatness that the Lord takes to himself. So (Psalm 147:5) Great is our God, and of great power: and his understanding is infinite. In handling of this, I will show you these two things.

God was known under the Old Testament, by the revelation of his Word, and the institution of his worship. This was the glory and privilege of Israel, as the Psalmist declares (Psalms 147:19, 20): He sheweth his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel; He has not…

It is excellently paraphrased by Mr. Patrick, God and yourself (my soul) enjoy; in quiet rest, freed from your fears. It is said (Psalm 147:6) that the Lord lifts up the meek; As far as their meekness reigns, they are lifted up above the stormy region, and fixed in a sphere perp…

He sings to his church, a vineyard of red wine. I the Lord do keep it (Isaiah 27:3; Psalm 147:11; 149:4). There is rest, and complacency in his love.

So, (Matthew 6:33) Seek first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all other things shall be added to you. 3. These things are dispensed to inferior, indeed, to the worst of his creatures; (Psalm 147:9) He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.…

Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the Prophets, and Moses did say should come. John 5:39. Search the Scriptures, for in them you think to have eternal life; compared with P…

17. The Lord is much pleased with such as Fear him. Psalm 147:11. The Lord takes pleasure in them that Fear him.

So Genesis 1:2, God said let there be light, and there was light. Of this word of God the Psalmist treats (Psalm 147:18): he sends out [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] and melts the ice, and Psalm 148:8, the same word is used. In both which places the Septuagint renders it by [⟨in non-…

So when we suffer some loss from barrenness, we are reminded of our sins; but if the weather is fair, we have a most abundant testimony of divine blessing and of his perpetual providence, by which he alone governs the weather as he wills. And in this sense Scripture says in Psal…