Psalms 33

2. He needs no matter to work upon; first he creates matter, and then works upon it. 3. He works without labor (Psalm 33:9). He spoke and it was done.

2. God made the world with a word. When Solomon was to build a temple he needed many workmen, and they all had tools to work with, but God worked without tools (Psalm 33:6). By the word of the Lord were the heavens made. The disciples wondered that Christ could with a word calm…

We conceive of God in our minds as the most super-excellent and infinite good; we apprehend in God a constellation of all beauties and delights; we adore God in his glorious attributes, which are the several beams by which his divine nature shines forth; we adore God in his work…

God produced this fair structure of the world without any pre-existent matter, and with a word. Psalm 33:6: "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made." The disciples wondered that Christ could with a word calm the sea (Matthew 8:26), but it was far more with a word to make…

The next attribute is God's goodness or mercy: mercy is the result and effect of God's goodness (Psalm 33:5; Psalm 119:64). So then this is the next attribute, God's goodness or mercy.

2. God's Providence reaches to all persons, especially the persons of the godly — they are in a special manner taken notice of; God takes care of every saint in particular, as if he had none else to take care for (1 Peter 5:7): He cares for you — that is, the elect in a special…

This is Satan's temptation; the hand of Joab is in this. 2. To rejoice is a duty (Psalm 33:1): praise is comely for the upright. But when God by his judgments calls us to weeping, now joy and mirth is unseasonable (Isaiah 22:12): "In that day did the Lord call to weeping, and be…

The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Psalm 33:6. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the Spirit of his mouth.

Q. Whether is the decree of God certain and immutable, or such as may be changed and not take effect? A. It is altogether unchangeable, and shall surely be accomplished (Psalm 33:11; 135:6; Isaiah 46:10; 14:27; Romans 9:11). Q. If the decree of God be unchangeable, then what nee…

Fiftly, because God has in abundance vouchsafed that to them being but a handful, which he has denied to whole heaps besides. Sixtly, for that they being elected, can in no wise perish, for the counsel of the Lord shall stand for ever (Psalm 33:11). And he loveth them with an ev…

For all the Purposes of God, all the eternal acts of his Will considered in themselves are immutable. See (Isaiah 46:10; Psalms 33:11; Proverbs 19:21; chapter 21:30) and their immutability is a necessary consequent of the immutability of the nature of God, with whom is no variab…

But it is Faith alone that receives the Promise and giveth an Interest therein. (2) That its nature and essence consists in Trust in God, which if it be not the Foundation of all its exercise, whatever may be so called is but a deceiving presumption (Psalm 33:18; 42:5; Psalm 130…

Our wisdom is bettered by experience, therefore old men are most prudent; but God's wisdom is incapable of increase, as being in an infinite fullness. We are often deceived; men of the greatest sagacity and cunning fail in their plots and enterprises, and so their wisdom is turn…

Now God has left many sweet promises for the faith of his poor people to feed on in this condition, such as these: Psalm 34:9-10: 'O fear the Lord, you his saints, for there is no want to those that fear him; the lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that fear the Lord shall…

The two Scriptures will not prove what he would. The first of them, (Psalm 33:15) He fashions their hearts alike, gives him no ground at all, except it be the homonomy of the English word alike, which in this place notes nothing else but [in non-Latin alphabet], all mens hearts…

1. This soul was by its first creation a spirit, and that in the substance or native kind thereof; and in that respect (considered apart from its union with the body) is in a more special manner allied to God, than all other creatures (but angels) are. You have the pedigree of m…

2. Holy men are a more special object of it. God preserves and provides for all things and all persons: but his eye is more peculiarly fixed upon those that fear him (Psalm 33:18): behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy, so fixed…

Also a sure confidence in the Lord, is from the assurance of his favor, to be assured from him only, for continual defence, deliverance and succour, in soul and body (Psalm 27:1, 3; Psalm 3:7, 9; Proverbs 14:26). From this confidence, springs trust or hope, which is to wait and…

So the Lord makes rich and poor, kills, and makes alive, makes snow, frost, fair weather, drought, and rain, the Sun to rise, and go down, and that in his own person, Father, Son, and Spirit. He, he only made Heaven, Earth, Sea, and all creatures, and the world; [illegible] (Act…

Here the Prophet uses an exclamation as it were the better to confirm the former sentence. For having told them that [reconstructed: this] was the counsel of the Lord, to the end he might show them it is so inviolable that it cannot be broken (Psalm 33:11), he asks the question…

Then, to the end the faithful might encourage themselves in seeking to obtain favor, they testify that they waited upon this God on whom they called. For indeed, our prayers are vain and frivolous, unless they be grounded on this principle, Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us (sa…

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…

Religious Fear and Hope are, once and again, joined together, as jointly constituting the Character of the true Saints. Psalm 33. 18. Behold the Eye of the Lord is upon them that Fear him, upon them that Hope in his Mercy.

'Serve the Lord with Fear, and rejoice with Trembling.' As also a gracious Hope; Psalm 33:18. 'Behold the Eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him; upon them that hope in his Mercy.'

It's a presumptuous invading of Gods Prerogative, to dictate to his Providence, and prescribe to his wisdom. (2.) There is a great deal of vanity in it: all the thoughtfulness in the world will not make one hair white or black: all our discontents will not prevail with God to ca…

So, when in general calamities upon the world, w are exempted by the favor of Providence, covered under its wings; when God shall call to us in evil days, Come my people, enter you into your chambers, as it is in Isaiah 26. 20, 21. When such Promises shall be fulfilled to us in…

And this conception of theirs, was so far approved by the Holy Ghost, as suitable to the mind of God, that John in the beginning of his Gospel declaring the eternal Deity of Christ does it under this name of [in non-Latin alphabet], the Word, that is [in non-Latin alphabet]; the…

Etc. David does likewise exhort us in Psalm 33, saying: Taste and see how friendly the LORD is; happy is the man that trusts in him. Mark well now that you must seek and look for all goodness, sweetness, mercy and virtue at him only, if you shall obtain anything, and that you ca…

Whoever trusts in God, is righteous. And in Psalm 33 says David also: The rich shall want and suffer hunger: but they which seek the LORD, shall want no manner of thing that is good. Likewise also said Anna the mother of the prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 2): They that were filled bef…

For it is not man's work to give thanks to God with joy. It is rather a joyful mind, and the only work of God, which is not perceived by utterance, but by experience, as says David in Psalm 33: Taste and see how good the Lord is, happy is the man that trusts in him. He says firs…

The kingdom of God, that is, his rule, and power, is not in meat and drink, for they are outward things, and he that is a spirit regards them not; but it is in righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit: that is, in the things that belong to the spirit, therein is his k…

So also Job 5:12-14: they meet with darkness in the daytime; when all things seem clear about them and a man would wonder how men should miss their way, then will God make it darkness to such as these. Psalm 33:10: he brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. Isaiah 8:9-10:…

All Obligation from God to the Creature, is from his own free engagement: otherwise he stands in no Relation to it, but of absolute Dominion, and Sovereignty. All the Justice of God then (we consider not the universal Rectitude of his nature, but) in reference to the Creature, i…

This Arminius at first could not accept, inferring from hence, that the will of God differed not from his essence, that every act thereof, is, 1 most simple: 2 infinite: 3 eternal: 4 immutable: 5 holy. Reason itself would fain speak in this cause, but that the Scriptures do so a…

This must be established in the heart. (1.) The firm belief of the Divine Providence, that all things are managed and ruled by it, and that in highest power and wisdom; no breaking of his purposes, nor resisting of his power (Psalm 33:7). (2.) The belief of his gracious Providen…

There am I in the midst of them. 5. God so loves his Children, that his Eye is never off them; Psalm 33:18. The Eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him.

4. The Fear of God is mixed with Hope. Psalm 33:18. The eye of the Lord is on them that fear him, that hope in his mercy.

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Besides it is a duty that stirs us up more to think well of the Lord and to speak well of him; for when we come to give thanks for mercies, it pitcheth our thoughts upon his goodness, and upon the great works he has done for us; and this causeth us to think better of the Lord, a…

This I somewhat doubted, when they, laying their heads together, whispered one with another, took counsel, and concluded with themselves, with what army, with what equipment, and with what weapons they would set upon us, as though they had had us presently in hold. They did so t…

Therefore it is not surprising if God brings low these puffed-up men who trust in their own strength and breaks them, because they abuse God's gifts. And in this sense the prophet spoke in Psalm 33, verses 16-17: 'The strong one is not delivered by the greatness of his strength;…

But was he changed after he reached royal dignity? Not at all, but as king and notable prophet he retained the same mind and the same words, for thus he speaks in Psalm 33: There is no king saved by the multitude of an army, the mighty are not delivered by the multitude of stren…

For the good as well as the evil are commanded to fear God, as the prophet warns in the Psalms. Let us therefore meditate on this doctrine, that the war is the Lord's: for which reason the prophet in Psalm 33 says that the horse is a vain thing for safety: and that a king is not…

Furthermore, the fact that God sent him the ephod with the priest had greater weight with him than if God had sent him thirty thousand soldiers as reinforcements. For although surrounded by many strenuous and brave soldiers, he would not have been saved by his own power and stre…

I have trusted in your mercy, my soul shall rejoice in your salvation. Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, as we hope in you (Psalm 33:22). And he that trusts in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about (Psalm 32:10).

The Earth, O Lord, is full of your mercy: the world and everything therein sets forth his goodness to us. The same is said in other places, (Psalm 33:5) The Earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. If Earth, what is Heaven?

Mercy rejoices over judgment (Psalm 118:1): O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good: because his mercy endures for ever. His works speak him good; there is no part of the world that we can set our eyes upon, but it offers matter of praise to God for his bounty to his creatures…

I observe again, those that have learned God's righteous judgments, they are only fit to praise God. (Psalm 33:1) Praise is comely for the upright. It is unseemly in a wicked man's mouth that he should be praising of God; it is his duty, but it is not so comely; but praise to th…

It may be expounded of any other blessing or benefit God had given according to his hope; and I rather understand it thus, they will be glad to see him sustained, supported, and born out in his troubles and sufferings; they will be glad when they shall see in me a notable exampl…

(Psalm 147:11) The Lord takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. And (Psalm 33:18) Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy. As a man that consults with his charter and conveyance, is more assured of hi…