Psalms 29

This is to glorify God, to have God-admiring thoughts; we esteem him most excellent, and search for diamonds only in this rock. 2. Glorifying of God consists in adoration, or worship (Psalm 29:2): Give to the Lord the glory due to his name. Worship the Lord in the beauty of holi…

They have a title to it; they have the ground of it; grace is the seed of peace, and it will in time turn to peace, as the blossoms of a tree to fruit, milk to cream. They have a promise of it (Psalm 29:11): The Lord will bless his people with peace. They may have peace with God…

This reverence shows the high esteem we have of God's sacred majesty. 2. Adoration is in bowing to him or worshipping him (Psalm 29:2): Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. (Nehemiah 8:6) They bowed their heads and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.

Hierom speaking of the Arians, says, They pretended friendship, they kissed my hands, but plotted mischief against me. (Psalm 29:5) A man that flatters his neighbor, spreads a net for his feet. Impia sub dulci melle venena latent — Falsehood in friendship is a lie.

He has on his vesture a name written, Rex Regum, King of Kings. He has the highest throne, the richest crown, the largest dominions, and the longest possession (Psalm 29:10). The Lord sits King forever.

But if Mr. Den and others will contend that this seeing of the salvation of God, is the revelation of the literal knowledge of Christ, that saving thing which is bestowed on the nations by the ministry of John and the coming of the Messiah, they must with us confess a large syne…

The design of the incense was to remind believers that the sweet savor of their prayers does not ascend to heaven except through the sacrifice of the Mediator; and in what manner those figures apply to us must be learned from the Epistle to the Hebrews. 12. Zacharias was trouble…

10. Fear not The design of this exhortation is to alleviate their fear. For, though it is profitable for the minds of men to be struck with awe, that they may learn to "give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name," (Psalm 29:2;) yet they have need, at the same time, of consol…

He fell upon the ground and worshipped. And worshipped.] To worship is to give to any one the honor due to him: So the rendering to God that love, that fear, that service, that honor which is due to him is the worshipping of God, that's the Scripture definition (Psalm 29:2): Giv…

We read of the seas roaring, and the floods clapping their hands; of the mountains singing, and the trees of the wood sounding forth their joyful acclamations; indeed, beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying fowl, dragons and all deeps, fire, hail, snow, rain, and stor…

Let us contemplate the excellencies of God. He is the God of Glory (Psalm 29:3), full of orient beauty: in comparison of whom both angels and men are but as the small dust of the balance. He is the God of love (2 Corinthians 13:11), who triumphs in acts of mercy.

The more quiet and sedate we are, the more like we are to that God, who though he is closely concerned in all the affairs of this lower world, is yet far from being moved by its most violent convulsions and revolutions; but as he was from eternity, so he is and will be to eterni…

That those Winds which do rend the very Earth, Mountains, and Rocks, 1 Kings 29. 11. Breaks the Cedars, indeed, the Cedars of Lebanon, shakes the Vvilderness and makes the Hinds, to calve: which Naturalists say, bring forth with greatest difficulty, Psalm 29:5, 8, 9. Surely your…

But his call that shakes and removes the mountains, does in a way known to himself turn and wind the heart which way he pleases. The voice of the Lord is powerful and full of majesty (Psalm 29). If he speak once to the heart it cannot choose but follow him, and yet most willingl…

But when God speaks to us with paternal voices, must this not be of greater moment among us His sons, than any thunders? And indeed when in Psalm 29 the voice of God is said to be terrifying, that it strikes great terror into the wild beasts, shakes the deer and all the elements…

For it is certain that a person cannot raise and dispose himself toward virtue by his own free will unless stirred by the power of the divine word and the Holy Spirit. But these words should not be restricted so narrowly, since they have a broader scope: namely that God will gua…

God give you of the dew of heaven; which was not only a prayer for Jacob, but a prophecy of that happiness and blessing which should come upon him and his posterity. Thus every adopted child has his heavenly Father's benediction, there is a special blessing distilled into all th…

Hence there is no ground at all, nor truth in what Arminians say, that the covenant of Grace is made with all and every one of mankind, as was the covenant of Works. For this must be true, that in Paradise, the covenant of Grace was made with Adam, and all his seed: but a covena…

—dumque aurea voluet astra polus, Memori semper celebrabunt cantu.— Use 3 Let us evidence our godliness by gratefulness, Psalm 29. 2. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name.