Psalms 148

It cost more to redeem us than to create us. In the creation there was but speaking a word (Psalm 148:5). In the redeeming us there was shedding of blood (1 Peter 1:18-19).

He only spake the word, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created. Psalm 148:5. This shows how glorious a God he is, and his power how omnipotent it is: who at his own will and word produced such a glorious frame of heaven and earth: so many thousand sorts and kind…

Now to correct this imagination, the Prophet grants it is true that God dwells on high, but yet does not therefore cease to behold and to govern this world by his providence: for he is careful of men's salvations, and dwells also with the afflicted, and with those that are of a…

First, that Satan being left at his own dispose, can raise and enrage storms and tempests. It is said (Psalms 148:8) that stormy winds and tempests fulfill the will of God; the winds go often on God's errand; but as often as the Lord gives leave, these stormy winds and tempests…

1. God speaks by his works of creation; the heavens have a voice and declare God's glory (Psalm 19:1), and the earth has not only an ear to hear (Isaiah 1:2), but also a tongue, as it were, to speak God's praise. We read of the seas roaring, and the floods clapping their hands;…

It cost more to redeem us than make us. In the one, there was only the speaking a word (Psalm 148:5); in the other the shedding of blood (Hebrews 9:22). The creation was the work of God's fingers (Psalm 8:3); the redemption, the work of his arm (Luke 1:5).

In all these heavens God's will is done. God is obeyed in the lower heaven, you shall see in (Psalm 148:8): Fire, hail, snow, and vapors, stormy winds fulfilling his word. Winds and storms, and all those things which seem to be most tempestuous and unruly, to be the disorders of…

“Soon the whole, like a parched scroll, Shall before my amazed sight uproll, And without a screen at one burst be seen, The presence wherein I have ever been.” Portion of Scripture read before sermon—Psalm 148 and 2 Corinthians 6.

And furthermore, from this passage as well as from the passage about Miriam, sister of Moses, we gather that God wishes to be praised not only by men but also by women, lest men, becoming too arrogant, should cast women down from this rank of dignity -- namely, that all, both me…

The angels they have many immunities above man, they are freed from death, from the necessities of meat and drink, but they are not freed from the Law, they are not sui juris, at their own dispose; they obey his commands, hearkening to the voice of his word (Psalm 103:20). Inani…

Open sin does as it were proclaim rebellion and war against God; and privy sin is conspiracy against him. All creatures have a law (Psalm 148:6): you have set to them a decree, beyond which they cannot pass. And they are less exorbitant in their motions than we are.

The man of God thought this a fit emblem of his condition. The Septuagint reads [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], in the frost; Kitor signifies any fume or vapor, whether of smoke or mist, as Psalm 148:8: Fire and hail, snow and vapor. The word for vapor is the same as this which is…

1. They are fit emblems of the stability of the word, for they continue to be what his word once made them to be: There is no jostling among the stars, but all obey God's word and law. (Psalm 148:4-6) Praise him you heavens of heavens: and waters that be above the heavens. Let t…

The creation witnesses against sin, with respect to God and man: for, 1. It teaches man many duties. 2. It convicts man of many a sin. The creatures teach man his duty in general, and many special ones: in general, they do all in their courses and places praise God, and fulfill…

'Tis ill when the tongue (that Organ of praise) is out of tune, and doth jar, by murmuring and discontent; but it is a good thing to be thankful: it is good, because this is all the creature can do to lift up God's name; and it is good, because it tends to the making us good: th…