Psalms 45

Jesus Christ is of mighty renown, he is a King; he has a kingly title, High and mighty (Isaiah 57:15). 2. He has his Insignia Regalia, his ensigns of royalty, Corona est insigne Regiae potestatis; His crown (Revelation 6:2), his sword (Psalm 45:3), Gird your sword upon your thig…

2. It is a high calling, because we are called to high privileges; to justification and adoption, to be kings and priests to God; We are called to the fellowship of angels, to be co-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17). They who are effectually called, are candidates of heaven, they…

This is our holiness, when we are suitable to God's nature, and submissive to his will; this should be our great care to be like God in holiness. Our holiness should be so qualified as God's; God's is a real holiness, such should ours be (Ephesians 4:24), righteousness and true…

5. We hallow and sanctify God's name when we love his name (Psalm 5:11): Let them that love your name be joyful; and that love which is honoring God's name must be a special discriminating love, the cream and flower of our love; such a love as we give to none besides. As the wif…

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet is not washed from their filthiness. If the water be foul in the bucket, it cannot be clean in the well (Psalm 45:13). The king's daughter is all glorious within.

To worship God, and pray to him, and not believe there is a God — Irrisio Dei est — it is to put a high scorn and contempt upon God. Believe that God is the only true God, such a God as he has revealed himself in his Word, a lover of righteousness, and hater of wickedness (Psalm…

Are men offended at pearls and diamonds? Christ is the wonder of beauty (Psalm 45:2): Fairer than the children of men; is there anything in beauty to offend? Christ is a mirror of mercy (Hebrews 2:17); why should mercy offend any?

For, though we are not to go out of our Country, and leave our livings and habitations: yet we must do that that is proportionable hereunto. That which is commanded to Solomon's wife, is to all Christians; Hearken O daughter, and consider, incline thine ear, forget thy own kindr…

Whence we learn, that howsoever usually, Forgetfulness be a vice; yet some kind of forgetfulness, is a notable virtue: namely, to forget the things that displease God, and which he would not have us to think upon. Psalm 45:9. The Church is commanded to forget her own people, and…

Psalm 69:9: The zeal of your house has eaten me up. Psalm 45:1: My heart shall utter, or cast up a good matter. I will speak in my works of the king.

But John Baptist was more worth than all his kingdom. A saint's facing may be mean, but he has a rich lining; the outside of the tabernacle was goats hair, but within it was embellished with gold (Psalm 45:13). The King's daughter is glorious within.

Mark the order: first, wanton or revengeful thoughts; then unclean or murderous practices. And if the heart be holy and spiritual, then as David speaks from sweet experience in Psalm 45:1: 'My heart is inditing a good matter; I speak of the things which I have made; my tongue is…

What a glorious embroidery upon the soul of a poor believer will in all these things appear, when finished! "The King's daughter is all glorious within, her clothing is of wrought gold: she shall be brought to the King in garments of needlework" (Psalm 45:13-14). 2. For his art…

1. It serves to encourage you all to receive him; He is no mean person that woos you, but King of kings, and Lord of lords; and if you think it a happiness to be forever with him, then let it move you to close with him; if you do so, you shall be made glorious as he is glorious,…

but when it comes to the articles of the contract, it's said to sinners, you must subject to Christ, and follow His will and not your own, this, this casts the bargain; thus many when they hear there is a possibility of life to be had in Christ, and much more when they hear it's…

In the first promise made to him, or in the first effect that should follow on his sufferings, in these words, He shall see his seed; we have these three. 1. A relation implied between Christ and believers; they are his seed; such as in the next verse, are said to be justified b…

Fourth, it's clear, that when the mediator is prayed to, something may be sought from him, that agrees to the office of the mediator — for instance, he may be prayed to, to take to him his government, and to exercise it, to give gifts to men, to gather his own elect, to make his…

All this bounty of God is held forth to us in Christ. Psalm 45:10. He is fairer than the sons of men. [in non-Latin alphabet] the word is of a double form, to note a double excellence. Song of Solomon 1:16. Behold you are fair my beloved, indeed pleasant. [in non-Latin alphabet]…

4. But as every fullness is not all fullness, so every fullness is not the fullness of the Godhead; therefore, to me it's as much as the elect are drawn to Christ as the choicest, the rarest among all. 2. So among all choice things and all relations, he is the first and most emi…

This setting him at God's right hand is a token of special and highest favor. So kings whom they were most pleased with they did set at their right hands, as Solomon did his mother (1 Kings 2:19) and so Christ the church his queen (Psalm 45:9), and it was a favor which God never…

Moreover, let me add this, that although the Spirit rested on him here without measure in comparison of us; yet it may be safely said, that the Spirit in respect of his effects in gifts of grace and glory, rests more abundantly on him in heaven, than he did on earth, even in the…

And by having of God there, he means this much, 'You shall worship no other gods but me; worship me, and you have me; worship any other, and you have another god, and not me.' So have the Lord Jesus Christ by worshiping of him; and you have him fully (Psalm 45:10-11). He is the…

I prove it by these arguments. 1. Those things which are due to God as God, are due to him alone, and no creature without sacrilege can claim any part and fellowship in that worship and adoration, neither can it be given to any creature without idolatry: but now religious worshi…

When Paul says, verse 3, Began you in the spirit, etc., he teaches a divine instruction, that true godliness and religion stands in the spirit, that is, the grace of the heart, or in the exercises of the inner man, whether we respect the beginning, the middle, or the accomplishm…

This jealousy in the Ministers must teach all faithful servants of God, that they keep themselves as pure virgins for Christ, and set their hearts on nothing in the world, but on him. Therefore they must hunger after Christ: they must account all things dung for him: they must h…

Hereby we see that the Papists have great skill in discerning of the right ornaments of the Church, for they please themselves in nothing but crucifixes, paintings, images, stately buildings, gold, precious stones, and glorious vestments: that is to say, in baubles and puppets,…

The principle of holiness itself, not merely its fruits, passes over into glory — those graces whereby holiness is constituted and wherein it consists, for the substance of them as they contain the image of God and by them we are united and adhere to God in Christ, shall in thei…

Ruth was the mother of Christ's line; he came of her posterity; so the church is Christ's mother, as she is represented in Revelation 12. Ruth forsook all her natural relations, and her own country, the land of her nativity, and all her former possessions there, for the sake of…

Christ was a person of infinite majesty. It is he that is spoken of in Psalm 45:3: Gird your sword upon your thigh, O most mighty, in your glory and your majesty. It is he that is mighty, that rides on the heavens, and in his excellency on the sky.

Oh how happy and cheerful a life might a Believer have, if he did not sometimes mar his own comfort! All is most excellent which he has, his songs are so, for they have the most excellent subject, to wit, Christ (Psalm 45) and the most excellent grounds of rejoicing, and most so…

2. To show that he is no rigid, nor severe censurer of a discouraged believer; no, my fair one (says he) even when she has many spots; Christ will raise no ill report on his own, whatever be their failings. 3. He presses it from the special relation he has to her, my love, and m…

The second word (which has in it another piece of their duty) is, go forth, and this is a help to the other: And (beside what has been hinted at in the former expression) it shows, it's not in every posture that they will take up Christ thus, but there is a necessity they must c…

2. Love in him, owning that relation, and claiming thereby an interest in her. 3. A duty in her to own him as her husband, and to forsake all her lovers, that she go not a-whoring after any other, as a wife should cleave to her husband: It is the same with what is pressed (Psalm…

He shall not fail nor be discouraged; and, as in (Revelation 1:12) Christ's eternity is held forth by white hairs, so by black hairs is signified his continuing young, vigorous and flourishing (to say so) through all eternity; which serves much to the scope of commending Christ;…

Secondly, and especially, the Church as invisible, and the real believers who are members of the Church invisible; for, the scope here is to commend her graces; and if we consider the commendation preceding, and the proofs given, it will appear that they especially belong to her…

The word in the first language is, Na[illegible]ib, which signifies a bounteous prince, or, one of a princely disposition (Isaiah 32:5). It's given to the visible Church (Psalm 45:13): The King's daughter is all glorious within. For more full taking up of the meaning, consider,…

By companions here, are understood particular believers, members of the Church, called also brethren and companions (Psalm 122:8), and the brotherhood (1 Peter 2:17). So also (Psalm 45:14) and (Psalm 119:63), "I am a companion of all that fear you," etc. And this title is given…

The efficacy of grace, called drawing (John 6:44), taken from (chapter 1:4), etc. Christ in the parables called a King, or the King (which by way of eminence is applied to him, (Psalm 45:1-2)). Neither is the second objection of greater weight, to wit, that no proper name of God…

We will find all these parties in this Song, acting their several parts. First, The Bridegroom is Christ (John 3:24), called the one husband (2 Corinthians 11:2), for there is not another spiritual husband, to whom believers can be matched; He is the King's son, for whom the mar…

Gracious discourse makes us resemble Christ. His words were perfumed with holiness: grace was poured into his lips (Psalm 45:2). He spoke to the admiration of all: his hands wrought miracles, and his tongue spoke oracles (Luke 4:22).

"Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breasts of kings." The great men of the world, and the rich merchants and others who have great wealth and influence, shall devote all to Christ and his church: Psalm 45:12. "The daughter of Tyre shall be there w…

None, I suppose, will say, this Righteousness that is so pure, is the common Grace of lukewarm Professors, and those that go about to serve God and Mammon. The same Wedding-Garment we have Account of in Psalm 45:13, 14. The King's Daughter is all glorious within, her Clothing is…

It is called the hidden man of the heart, because the work of grace is a secret thing, and does not make a pompous show in the eye of the world; it is a mystery of godliness, a life that is hid with Christ in God, to whom secret things belong; therefore the saints are called his…

Fretting and vexing is the fruit of the weakness of women and children, but much below the strength of a man, especially of the new man, that is born from above. When our Lord Jesus is described in his majesty, riding prosperously, the glory he appears in is truth, and meekness,…

But the adorations given to Christ by the heavenly hosts speak of him as the Lamb (Revelation 5:8, 12, 13): blessing and glory — to him that sits upon the throne; they do not say, and to the Lion of the tribe of Judah, but to the Lamb; though he has a name given him above every…

Wind shaking the tree, makes it grow more steady. Thus the tribulations of the godly, and the persecutions they suffer, do oppose their graces, but because they cannot overcome them, they strengthen them: As we read Psalm 45. when the Church forsakes all, when she leaves her fat…

He gives eternal life to his elect: ruling them in the power of God (Micah 5:3) until he bring them to himself; and for his enemies! His arrows are sharp in their hearts (Psalm 45:5) he dips his vesture in their blood: Oh how glorious is he in his authority over his enemies? In…

The grace of Christ as mediator intended. Psalm 45:2. Song of Solomon 5:9.

The entertainment he makes for his saints, is a wedding supper (Matthew 22:3). The graces of his church, are the ornaments of his queen (Psalm 45:9-14). And the fellowship he has with his saints, is as that which those who are mutually beloved in a conjugal relation do hold (Son…

The terms of this covenant are at large set forth in Isaiah 53, summed up in Psalm 40:7-8, and Hebrews 10:8-10. Hence the Father became his God — which is a covenant expression, Psalm 89:26, Hebrews 1:5, Psalm 22:1, Psalm 40:8, Psalm 45:7. So was he by his Father designed to thi…