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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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.

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…

1. The stability of the earth is the effect of God's word, this is the true pillar upon which the earth stands; For he upholds all things by the word of his power. Psalm 33:9: For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. Now his word of power helps us to depen…

It is the devil's policy either to keep us from duty, or else to put us upon it when it is least in season. Rejoicing is a duty (Psalm 33:1); but when God by some special providence calls us to weeping, now joy is unseasonable. This is that which God complains of (Isaiah 22:12):…

And 4. his people must cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of (Isaiah 2:22)? And be dead to multitude: for (Psalm 33:16) no King is saved by a host, a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. 17. A horse is a vain thing for safe…

So did the Psalmist, Psalm 130:34. Psalm 33:18, 19. And the Publican, Luke 18:13.

Psalm 50. 16. 2 Praise is not fitting for any, but the godly, Psalm 33. 1. Praise is comely for the righteous: A profane man stuck with God's praises, is like a dunghill stuck with flowers; praise in the mouth of a sinner, is like an Oracle in the mouth of a fool; how uncomely i…

He might have been content with the bare name of faith, but he not only added confidence, but also furnished the same with liberty or boldness, by this mark to put difference between us and unbelievers, who do indeed also pray to God as we do, but at random. For which reason the…

4. He can speak to life in abstracto (Ezekiel 37:9): Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 5. God can speak to Mother-nothing, as if Nothing had ears and reason and could hear (Romans 4:17): He calls things that are not, as though…

And this upon a threefold ground. First, By this means God does most suitably answer the creation of the world, in the new creation of decayed corrupt nature; By the word of the Lord were the heavens made (Psalm 33:6). What, will the speaking of a word make a world?

What work is there in heaven, but of this second commandment, as it is read in Psalm 84: "Lord, blessed are they that dwell in your house, for they shall praise you forever." So David in Psalm 33: "His praise is always in my mouth." And Saint Paul to the Corinthians, the first e…