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…

But it is a fond imagination; at least the argument from these words for it, is so. For besides that the Scripture calls all sins by the name of errors (Psalms 19:12; Psalms 25:7), and the worst, the most provoking of all sins, is expressed by erring in heart (Psalms 95:10), and…

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…

Those that have most communion with God, do most discern his mind. Let a man walk humbly and closely with God, and he is near, not only the root of life, but the fountain of light (Psalm 25:14): the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him. When the Disciples doubted of any…

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…

You complain you cannot resolve your doubts; 'tis likely you did never use the means to resolve them: you should seriously and frequently consider things in your own mind, you should consult the choicest books, and converse with the wisest, and learnedest, and best of men. You s…

The other necessity of it (which is also in the Text) is this, that except we be thus ashamed and humbled, God has not promised to show us the pattern of his house, nor to reveal his will to us. Which agrees well with that (Psalms 25:9) The meek will he teach his way: and verse…

It is a part of atheism not to think the acts of God in the world worth our serious thoughts. And if you would know the meaning of his administrations, grow up in the fear of God (Psalm 25:14). The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him.

Where this frame is, a conscientious fear of sinning will always prevail in the soul; where it is lost, men will be bold in all sorts of follies. And that this frame may be preserved, it is required, (1.) that we cast out all vicious habits of mind that are contrary to it (James…

We will do any thing to be saved. So (Acts 16:30) the jailer being humbled, demanded of Paul what he should do to be saved; when as a man is thus disposed, God will teach him (Psalm 25). God teaches the humble his ways: man himself will do so; if he see one willing to learn, he…

Therefore, seeing God is in heaven, away with all drowsy and dead praying, let us come with reverence in our hearts before the Lord. 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 L…

The bond that is between God and his Church, it is his Covenant, and all the good or evil of a Church depends upon the Covenant; and therefore it was the way always of the people of God when they were far declined from God, to return to him by way of renewing Covenant. In (Psalm…

It is prudence, I say, or understanding, directing the whole man in the fear of God and the practice of piety: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," (Psalms 111:10). In it also it places its growth: "The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will mak…

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…

And therefore, put the case you should repent and should be called when you are old, you have no cause to put off the call of Jesus Christ, seeing sins of youth will fill you with horror and disquietness of mind. Hence it is that David, after he was called by the power of the wo…

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…

Perhaps if men did more call over their former sins and miscarriages than they do, they would walk more humbly and warily than they do for the most part. So David in his age prays for a renewed sense of the pardon of the sins in his youth (Psalm 25:7). 2. The soul sees in them a…

God can be just, and yet forgive your sin; he can get himself a name, and exalt the glory of his grace, in you; he can make those falls of yours to be the occasions of his appearing in his grace the more eminently to you, in his humbling, healing, and pardoning of you; and so ma…

4. We may marre influences of grace. IT is not to be thought that influences, being acts of omnipotency, can properly be hindered; but by way of promise and judicial threatning, he has revealed in his word that he will give grace to the humble, and resist the proud (James 4:6; 1…

Indeed sometime a spiritual disposition to pray or praise, or hope, goes along with the command. Now the obligation of the command to praise is ever one, and it is good when the man can say, My heart is fixed, I will praise (Psalm 57), and the command to wait on the Lord lies ev…

And when such small fins (so they appear to men) leave an impression of remorse, the heart is like melted wax that easily admits a figure and the print of an image of a man or a Lion. Influences are some way due to softness of heart as grace to the lowly, rain and dew to meadows…

There is violence in the motion of a clock, and therefore the wheels shall be worn out by time; but the actings of the spirit are sweet and facile; grace makes the Commandments not grievous; it's no pain but easy to a gracious pastor to love Christ; it breaks neither leg nor arm…

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…