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?

Let us then nakedly attend to what the Scripture asserts in this matter, and that in the order of the books of it in some particular instances which at present occur to mind; as these that follow. Psalm 45:6, "Your throne O God is for ever and ever," applied to Christ (Hebrews 1…

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.

Now says the Apostle I would use the gift, but to edification, so as the understanding of the auditory may go along with me. 2. The ordinary gift of the Spirit, is that special dexterity whereby men are able to put their meaning into apt words; 'tis not of such a miraculous infu…

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…

So the soul cannot be married to Christ, except it not only renounce its bosom-sins, lusts, and idols; but be content also to part with the most lawful creature-comforts for his sake. Forget your own people, and your father's house, says the Psalm (Psalm 45:10). The repudiating…

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…

The Assumption, that a Church becomes a Church by being married to Christ, is plain from the former Scriptures, where the Church of Israel, and the Church of Corinth, in regard of their entering into Church estate, are said to be espoused and married to Christ, as a loving and c…

In this second clause of arguments there is only one behind, and that is, that by the titles given to all particular congregations, namely a kingdom, a family, a body, a Queen etc., it appears that all ecclesiastical authority, ought to be in every one of them distinctly, wholly…

The zeal of your house has eaten me up (Psalm 69:9). My heart shall utter, or cast up a good matter; I will speak in my works of the king (Psalm 45:1). Here the Spirit of God borrows a comparison from men thus: as he which has somewhat lying heavy in his stomach, is never at qui…

The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace. In (Psalm 45:6) your Throne (O God) is for ever and ever: the Scepter of your Kingdom is a right Scepter. In (Psalm 145:13) your Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom: and your Dominion endures thr…

Such tend to be the fruits of the first admonitions — the uncertain stirrings, as it were, of those beginning to awake. There are other "sharp arrows" of Christ (Psalm 45:5, 6), which He so embeds in the hearts of sinners that they cannot shake them out, however much they might…

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.

For this cause was his posterity continued in a state of separation from the rest of the world, that he might seek an holy seed to himself (Numbers 23:9; Malachi 2:15). For this cause did he raise them into a civil, regal, and Church-State, that he might in them type out, and pr…

Hence the things spoken of him in the Old Testament, are to carnal reason full of seeming inconsistencies. As for instance, it is promised of him that he should be the seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15), of the seed of Abraham (Genesis 22:18), and of the posterity of David; and ye…

Among them the principall is that of Scepter, an Ensign of Rule and Government. Nor is it absolutely used in any other sense, in that very frequently; Psalm 45. [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], A Scepter of uprightness is the Scepter of your Kingdom, Numbers 24:17. [〈 in non-Latin a…

For the former, they declare that he was to be the Son of God, God and Man in one Person (Psalm 2:7; Psalm 110:1; Isaiah 9:6, 7; Jeremiah 23:5, 6; Zechariah 2:8, 9, 10), and in sundry other places is the same mystery intimated, whereby the Church was farther instructed how God w…

Psalm 21.3, 4. Psalm 45. Psalm 68.

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…