Psalms 25

See your need of Christ's anointing and teaching (Revelation 3:18). 2. Go to Christ to teach you (Psalms 25:5): Lead me in your truth, and teach me. As one of the disciples said, Lord teach us to pray (Luke 11:1), so, Lord teach me to profit.

First, it gives boldness at the throne of grace; guilt of conscience clips the wings of prayer, it makes the face blush, and the heart. But when a Christian has some lively apprehensions of God's love, and the Spirit whispering peace, then he goes to God with boldness, as a chil…

Thirdly, If you would persevere, be very sincere. Perseverance grows only upon the root of sincerity (Psalm 25:21). Let integrity and uprightness preserve me.

If God be our husband, he esteems us precious to him as the apple of his eye (Zechariah 2:8). He imparts his secrets to us (Psalm 25:14). He bestows a kingdom upon us for our dowry (Luke 12:32).

This fearing of God is, 1. To have God always in our eye (Psalm 16:8): I have set the Lord always before me. And (Psalm 25:15): My eyes are ever toward the Lord. He who fears God imagines that whatever he is doing, God looks on, and as a judge, weighs all his actions.

Mercies for the dejected (Isaiah 54:8): In a little wrath I hid my face from you, but with great mercies will I gather you. God has old mercies (Psalm 25:6): Your mercies have been ever of old. And new mercies (Psalm 40:3): He has put a new song in my mouth.

Will you give me a kingdom, and deny me daily bread? 4. If in covenant with God, all things shall co-operate for your good: Etiam mala cedunt in bonum (Psalm 25:10). Not only golden paths, but his bloody paths.

God takes the meek person to be his scholar. (Psalm 25:9): The meek will he teach his way. Meekness makes the Word preached to be ⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩, an engrafted Word, (James 1:21).

Is it your sins discourage? God's mercy can pardon great sins, nay, because they are great (Psalm 25:11). The sea covers great rocks as well as lesser sands; some that had a hand in crucifying Christ, found mercy.

Objection 2: But I have been a great sinner, and surely God will not pardon me? David brings it as an argument for pardon (Psalm 25:11): "Pardon my iniquity, for it is great." When God forgives great sins, he does a work like himself.

Hereby we are taught, oftentimes to give ourselves to elevate and lift up our minds and hearts to God, partly by meditation in his word, partly by invocation on his name, and partly by thanksgiving. And, to do these things the better, we must remember to set apart some special t…

And as in that, for is it generally true in all his great works: that the Lord God will do nothing, but he reveals his secrets to his servants the Prophets. Amos 3:7. Now this is not a prerogative of Prophets alone, or of such as were extraordinary men as Abraham was: but the se…

Doctrine. That all the various dealings of God with his Children, do by a special Providence turn to their good. Psalm 25:10. All the paths of the Lord are mercy unto such as keep his Covenant.

- 4. Again, we are here to consider that our hearts in prayer must mount up into heaven, and there be present with the Lord. - Psalm 25:1. To you O Lord, lift I up my soul. - The little child is never well but when it is in the father's lap, or under the mother's wing: and the c…

The spirit helps us with sighs and groans (Romans 8:26): not only gifts, but groans; and surely the incense of a righteous man's prayer with the Holy Ghost's fire put to it, must needs ascend as a sweet perfume to heaven. [reconstructed: 2]. A righteous man's prayers are so exce…

Truth 7. Lastly, whatever our sin or trouble may be, it should rather drive us to God than from God. 'Pardon my sin, for it is great' — Psalm 25:11. Suppose it is true that you have so and so sinned, that you have been thus long and sadly deserted — yet it is a false inference t…

2. That it is no curious thing, for the Lord does not lay the obligation to curiosity on any, though we would wish that many had a holy curiosity to know God's mind towards them, that they might not live in the dark about such a concerning business. 3. That the secret of the Lor…

Antinomian preachers in our times confess sins in public, but it is the sins of the reprobate and carnal multitude, that are in the society mixed with the godly; they think it a work of the flesh to confess their own sins: this is to steal the word of the Lord from his people. S…

All the world is Christ's refuse, and kings are but mortar to him; the saints are Christ's assessors, and the kings' peers to judge the world with him, lords of the higher house — Christ divides the throne with them (Luke 22:30; 1 Corinthians 6:2; Revelation 21). The Lord so far…

And it was concerning a secret counsel of God. Now when God undertakes to be our friend, he undertakes to communicate sundry of his counsels to us; his secrets are to them that fear him (Psalm 25:14). Many secret passages shall their hearts be made privy to, that others shall ne…

And priests also we are, so as we are able to offer up sacrifices of prayer, and thanksgiving to God, a broken and a humble heart is a sacrifice, much set by of God (Psalm 51:17) and (Philippians 2:17), offered upon the sacrifice, and service of your faith, we are now enabled to…

(2.) Nearer we cannot come to God while we dwell in flesh, than by lifting up the heart to him in fervent prayer, this is the intimate converse and familiarity of a loving soul with God; therefore it is called a lifting up the heart to God, he will not come down to us, therefore…

It is called by Paul, the itching of the ear, and it is incident to them that follow their own lusts. The remedy of this sin, is to learn the first lesson that is to be learned of them that are to be good scholars in the school of Christ: and that is to feel our poverty, and in…

And we must take heed, lest this our foolishness, and intoxication of our senses, lead us headlong to perdition. And therefore we must learn the way of life in humility (Psalm 25:9). We must obey it, and in obedience we shall learn it (John 7:17).

A meek and quiet spirit, is before God, a thing much set by. Thirdly, God has made excellent promises to them that are of a meek and humble spirit, that he will guide them in judgment, and teach them his ways (Psalm 25:9), that they shall be hid in the day of the Lord's wrath (Z…

Now he bids her be of good cheer, and adds the reason; namely, that her deliverance should be so famous, that she should not be confounded. As if he should have said: Though now for a while your case be desperate, yet your matters shall succeed prosperously: for those that trust…

If thereore in doubtful cases, you would discover Gods will, govern your selves in your search after it by these Rules. Get the true fear of God upon your hearts, be really afraid of offending him, God will not hide his mind from such a oul, Psalm 25:14 The secret of the Lord is…

Consider how many Promises are made in the Word to waiting souls. One Scripture calls them blessed that wait for him, Isaiah 30:18 Another tells us, none that wait for him shall be ashamed, Psalm 25:3 (that is, ) they shall not be finally disappointed, but at last be partakers o…

We now understand, what a critical and dangerous season Youth is, the wonderful proclivity of that Age to every thing that is evil. Why else are they called Youthful lusts? 2 Timothy 2:22 When David asketh, Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? it's plainly enough implyed…

Prayer (which is a sacrifice of the Gospel) is nothing else but a lifting up of the soul, an elevation of the spirit to God: so some of the ancients call prayer, an ascending of the soul to God; and in allusion to this, Hezekiah when he sent to Isaiah the prophet to pray for him…

In all these respects, the Lord's way of carrying on his design is said to be unsearchable. This we take as intended here, to set forth and commend the gracious and glorious steps of the Lord, in the administration of his grace, both in its contrivance and application among his…

Meekness does in like manner dispose the soul to admit the rays of divine light; which before it rebelled against, it opens the heart, as Lydia's was opened; and sets us down with Mary at the feet of Christ; the learner's place and posture (Deuteronomy 33:3). The promise of teac…

I have all this time miscarried in the choice of my soul for my everlasting estate, I have chosen the ways of death all this while. O that the fear of God might fall upon your hearts this day! and then the promise of God is, Psalm 25:12 Who is the man that fears the Lord, him wi…

The Scripture speaks of the familiar converse that God has with his people here, that they are called friends: Abraham was called The friend of God, and the Disciples were called friends, but hereafter the friendship shall be much more full and sweet; Job shall have his desire,…

He is the true light that enlightens every man who comes into the world, John 1:9. From him it is that the secret of the Lord is with those who fear him, and he shows them his covenant, Psalm 25:14. John 15:14-15: You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.

Second: this constant universal keeping of Christ's word of patience will keep the heart and soul in such a frame that no prevalent temptation, by virtue of any advantages whatever, can seize upon it so as totally to prevail against it. So David prays, 'Let integrity preserve me…

It may be said then, seeing that this seems to be the path that the Holy Spirit leads us in, for the healing of our wounds, and quieting of our hearts, how shall we know when we go alone ourselves, and when the Spirit also does accompany us? 1. If any of you are out of the way u…

Though I be the vilest sinner that ever came to him, yet I know he is more gracious than I am sinful — indeed, the more my sin is, the more glory will it be to his grace to pardon it; it will appear the richer. Does not David argue thus (Psalm 25:11): "For your name's sake, O Lo…

It is a strange kind of argument and yet a sure one, concludes well and strongly. (Psalm 25) Lord pardon my iniquity for it is great. The soul pressed with the greatness of its sin lying heavy upon it, may by that very greatness of it pressing it, press the forgiveness of it at…

Though this be no encroaching on the pardon already past, yet it may exceedingly terrify the soul, and over-cloud our comfort, and therefore we must beg the continuance of this benefit. Go to God, as David did, (Psalm 25:6-7) Remember, O Lord, your tender mercies, and your lovin…

We can neither live without the one nor the other; we cannot live without daily bread, nor live comfortably without daily pardon, nor live holily without daily grace. And therefore you are to wait upon God all the day (Psalm 25:5). And (Psalm 16:8): I have set the Lord always be…

Amen. Portion of Scripture read before sermon—Psalm 25.

2. The fear of God is Wisdom as it makes us understand divine secrets. Psalm 25:14. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: You have chastised me, and I was chastised, etc. But afterwards: David, though he began with God betimes (Psalm 25:7), yet prays, Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgression. And (Job 13:26) For you write bitter thi…

Ways implies a certain direction for our walk to heaven. There are God's ways to us declared in his promises; so it is said (Psalm 25:10): All the paths of God are mercy and truth. Our ways to God, verse 4 of that Psalm: Show me your ways, teach me your paths.

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. Wait for light in the use of means, with a simple, docile, sincere, humble mind (Psalm 25:9). The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way.

1. Fear of God. "What man is he that fears the Lord: him will he teach the way that he shall choose" (Psalm 25:12). He that is in doubt, and perplexed, and would have counsel from God's word; who is the man that is like to have it?

Thirdly, note, they that would steer their course according to God's holy will, had need of the conduct and assistance of his holy Spirit; for he goes to God, Lord teach me your statutes. (Psalm 25:4): Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths. And (Psalm 27:11): Teach me y…

Sundry sorts of persons made him their butt, upon which they spent and let fly the arrows of censure and reproach. Psalm 25:15. The abjects gathered themselves together against me, they did tear me, and ceased not.

2. With a condescension to his people. Nothing goes so near their hearts, as a disappointment of their hope in God: this will mightily damp their spirits, when God spits in their faces, and seems to reject their prayers (Psalm 25:2). O my God, I trust in you, let me not be asham…