Psalms 41

So when we have had the anointing of God, then we shall stand before the King of Heaven. 10. God shows mercy in hearing our prayers (Psalm 41:1): Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. Is it not a favor when a man puts up a petition to the king, and has it granted?

Faith though it has sometimes a trembling hand, it must not have a withered hand; but must stretch forth itself to works of mercy: There's nothing lost by charitableness (Proverbs 11:25): The liberal soul shall be made fat. (Psalms 41:1) Blessed is he that considers the poor, yo…

Spiritual prayers are best; have you a diseased body? Pray more that the disease of your soul may be removed than your body (Psalm 41:4). Heal my soul, for I have sinned.

He is blessed. 1. In his person, Psalm 41. 1. Blessed is he that considers the poor. God casts a favourable aspect upon him.

So Paul (2 Timothy 1:16): "At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me." (Psalm 41:9) "My familiar friend in whom I trusted has lifted up his heel against me." Those that have been acquainted with the secrets of your soul may not only grow strange to you but…

3. In diseases, which is more common. Thus he afflicted Job's body with ulcers; and what we read (Psalm 41:8): An evil disease cleaves fast to him. It is [illegible] a thing of Belial, as if it were a pestilential disease from the devil.

For they are brethren after the flesh, and must persecute their brethren which are born after the spirit. So Christ in Psalm 41 complains of Judas: The man of my peace whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted up the heel against me. But this is our consolation, that…

Therefore if we will feel any refreshing in our calamities, let us show ourselves loving and merciful, and not withdraw our help from those that have need. Blessed is he, says David, which judges wisely of the poor and needy, the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble (Ps…

And though they thought it hard to be left in suspense and perplexity for a time, that they might employ themselves in contemplating the atrocity of the crime, it was afterwards followed by another advantage, when they perceived that the prediction of the psalm was fulfilled, He…

For Christ does not employ an ironical address when he calls him friend, but charges him with ingratitude, that, from being an intimate friend, who sat at his table, he had become a traitor, as had been predicted in the psalm: If a stranger had done this, I could have endured it…

Section 35. God does not remit us merely to the authority of his commands but applies all other ways and means to make them effectual — hence they are accompanied with exhortations, entreaties, reasonings, expostulations, promises, and threatenings; and regarding the promises th…

And there are two excellent uses of Providence in subserviency to the word. (1.) Providences as they follow Promises and prayer are Evidences of God's faithfulness in their Accomplishment. When David languished under a disease, and his Enemies began to triumph in the hopes of hi…

It is I presume, beyond question with you, that the very finger of God has been in these things, and that it is by his care alone, you have been preserved. When God had so signally delivered David from a dangerous disease and the plots of Enemies against him, by this (says he) I…

Fourthly, Learn we hence to judge wisely of the poor, of the afflicted, and persecuted. Psalm 41:1 Far be it from us to think they are forsaken of God: let us not be offended at Religion, because troubles follow the profession of it; the blessing that comes by profession of the…

So by the rule of contraries, the blessings of the Almighty crown and encompass the merciful man. 2 Samuel 22:26; Psalm 37:26; Psalm 41:1: The merciful man is a blessed man. For the illustration of this, I shall show: first, what is meant by mercifulness; second, the several kin…

Sin has turned our houses and churches into hospitals, full of sick persons. What David's enemies said reproachfully of him is true of every natural person (Psalm 41:8): an evil disease clings to him. He has the plague of the heart (1 Kings 8).

Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he comes shall find watching; truly I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. When we are sick he makes our bed, Psalms 41:3. Thou wilt make all their bed in their…

David is often fainting in misery, yet by and by revived. Therefore there is good cause why the consideration of repentance and the combat should go together, that no man, after he has begun to repent, might dream of ease to his flesh, as though we should go to heaven in beds of…

Now a man can tell what he stands in need of, now he does not only confess his wickedness, but declare his iniquity, and is sorry for his sin (Psalm 38:8). Lord be merciful to my soul, for I have sinned against you (Psalm 41:4). 4. A fourth act of faith as it leads to justificat…