Psalms 48

If God be one, let all that profess him be one, of one mind, and one heart; this fulfills Christ's prayer, that they [reconstructed: all] may be one. 2. If there be but one God, let us labor to clear the title that this God is ours (Psalm 48:14). This God is our God.

I have seen his iniquities and I will heal him: Every failing does not break the marriage bond asunder: The disciples had great failings, they all forsook Christ and fled; but this did not break off their interest in God: Therefore says Christ at his ascension, Tell my disciples…

And then we know God aright, when we know him not only with a knowledge of speculation, but appropriation. (Psalm 48:14) This God is our God. This knowledge of God is the most sublime wisdom; therefore 'tis called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; wisdom from above (James 3:17).

1. A sound knowledge of God: Take a view of his superlative excellencies; his holiness, his incomprehensible goodness. The angels know God better than we, therefore they sanctify his name, and sing Hallelujahs to him; and let us labor to know him to be our God (Psalm 48:14). Thi…

When men run to sinful shifts, is it not because they do not believe there is a God, or that he is all-sufficient? 2. Seeing there is a God, let us labor to get an interest in him (Psalm 48:14): "This God is our God." Two things will comfort us, deity and propriety: since the fa…

Thoughts are as travelers; most of David's thoughts traveled Heaven's road (Psalm 139:17). Are our minds [reconstructed: heavenized] (Psalm 48:12). Walk about Zion, tell the towers thereof, mark you well her bulwarks: do we walk into the heavenly mount, and see what a glorious s…

Grace teaches self-denial, and we can never submit our will till we deny it. 4. Means: let us labor to have our covenant interest cleared, to know that God is our God (Psalm 48:14). This God is our God; he whose faith does flourish into assurance, that can say, God is his, will…

1. Branch. If there be such a glorious kingdom coming, then you who have any good hope through grace that you are the heirs of this kingdom, let me exhort you to six things. 1. Often take a prospect of this heavenly kingdom, climb up the celestial mount, take a turn as it were i…

And as there has been nothing as yet, with regard to the flourishing of religion, and the advancement of Christ's kingdom, of such extent as to answer the prophecies, so neither has there been any thing of that duration, that is foretold. The prophecies speak of Jerusalem's bein…

(Hosea 11:4) I drew them with the cords of men, with the bands of love. But consider, (Psalm 48) the Lord's mountain of holiness is glorious. Verse 2. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is mount Zion, the City of the great King.

Oh how low should we lie before this great God (Genesis 18:27): Who am I that am but dust and ashes, that I should speak to God. 3. That we must not please ourselves with the performance of ordinary service to him, but we should raise it to an eminent degree of worship and adora…

For however he made these discourses after the ordinary manner of men, that he was able to conquer the Jews, yet because he despised the help of God, under which they sheltered themselves, as he had often heard tell, it was as much as if he had conspired to overthrow the heavens…

Job. 13:1 having loved his own which were in the world he loved them unto the end: for this God is our God for ever and ever, he will be our guide even unto death. Psalm 48:14 Did he love me in my youth, and will he cast me off in my decrepit age? O God, (says the Psalmist) you…

That they may be the better enabled to give him glory, when they shall see the sweet harmony that is between his manifestations and his operations. When they can say with the Psalmist, as we have heard, so have we seen (Psalms 48:8): as he reveals himself, so he works. When his…

Commonly they render the Hebrew [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] by it; which when regarding God, always signifies atonement, and to atone. So the noun, Psalm 48:17. No man can redeem his brother, [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] nor can he give to God his ransom, or the price of his redempti…

He that abides thus the same after all, shall stand on the Earth. But the word also is often joined with [illegible], a generation, a time, a season (Psalm 48:4, 6, 14; Psalm 102:19), and denotes the futurition of it; that it is to come, and shall come. So also with [illegible],…

Through your name, that is, through you: through you and through your name are the same. So (Psalm 48:10), According to your name so is your praise, that is, you are praised like yourself, as you are in yourself, so you are or ought to be praised by your people, the name is put…

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. Of this thing speaks Psalm 48 on this wise: He shall speak good of you, so long as you do him good. As though he would say: He seeks his, and not yours.

Thus the spiritual beauty of holiness in believers (Psalm 110:3) is set out as having in it so much loveliness as may commend it, and make it desirable and acceptable to others. 2. She is comely as Jerusalem: this was the head city of Judah, beautiful for situation, and the joy…

They were afraid whither these things would grow. Psalm 48:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6: Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness; beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion, on the sides of the north, the ci…

Mark you well her Bulwarks, consider her places, that you may tell it to the Generation following. For this God is our God for ever and ever; He will be our guide even to death. — Psalm 48:12, 13, 14. OXFORD, Printed by LEON: LICHFIELD Printer to the University, for THO: ROBINSO…

When we know him to be our God, then we draw near to him. The spouse, by virtue of the conjugal union, draws near to her husband (Psalm 48:14): This God is our God. Let us beg the Holy Spirit.

The rotten, unsavoury, worldly and carnal speeches of many, bewray how little of the spirit is within them. It was Christ who had the fullness of the anointing of the spirit within him (Psalm 48:8): I delight to do your will, O my God, your law is within my heart. In sea and lan…

By nature we have Quick-silver Hearts which cannot be made to fix on God, but by love. 4. If you would think often on God, get an interest in him, Psalm 48:14. This God is our God.

But God being our God we are freed from the Clamors of this hellish Fury: Conscience sprinkled with Christs blood speaks Peace; a good Conscience like the Bee gives Hony; it is like the Golden pot which had Manna in it, 2 Corinthians 1:12. 6. If God says to us ye are mine, we sh…

And the Lord has undertaken to guide us (Isaiah 58:11). The Lord shall guide you continually. And (Psalm 48:14). He will be our guide even to death. And (Psalm 73:24). You shall guide me by your counsel, and afterwards receive me to your glory.

(1.) Consider how equal it is that our duty should last so long as we would have God's blessings last, that one part should answer another. We would have God bless us to the end, therefore we must serve and obey him to the end (Psalm 48:14). For this God is our God for ever and…

The Uses. Well then, give the Lord this honor of being your continual guide (Psalm 48:14): For this God is our God for ever and ever, he will be our guide even to death. You do not own him as a God unless you make him your guide (Psalm 73:24): You shall guide me with your counse…

This is another benefit we get by keeping God's precepts. They go from strength to strength (Psalm 48:7). As they that went to the feast at Jerusalem, they went from troop to troop, so they are brought forward in their way to heaven: God that punishes sin with sin, rewards also…

He is an eternal God that orders and guides all things, that he may bring them to their eternal felicity, and will in time admit them into it. (Psalm 48:14) For this God is our God, for ever and ever: and he will be our guide even to death. After death he will be their God still…

Therefore [illegible] should take them, use them as your own — they are [illegible] in the testament of [illegible] and bequeathed [illegible] you. When you read what God has done for Zion (Psalm 48), in those glorious [illegible], [illegible], deliverances, mercies [illegible]…

Come they will, that's certain; but when they will come, that's uncertain: think, and ever be musing how to prevent those evils, that you are never able to avoid, nor bear. Job compares fear to an army of mighty force, that commands where it comes (Job 30:15): "Terrors are turne…

A carnal spirit rejoices because he can say this house is his, this estate is his. But a gracious spirit rejoices because he can say this God is his (Psalm 48:14): For this God is our God forever and ever. The ground of a Christian's joy is glorious; he rejoices in that he is an…

Well may the Apostle call them foolish and hurtful lusts (1 Timothy 6:9), because every lust does what in it lies to cut off the entail of mercy, and block up the way to happiness; every sin may be compared to the flaming sword, which keeps the heavenly paradise that the sinner…

By John Owen, Minister of the Gospel. Psalm 48:12, 13, 14. Walk about Sion, and go round about her: tell the Towers thereof. Mark you well her Bulwarks consider her Palaces, that you may tell it to the Generation following. For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be o…

2. You are to consider in your entering into this covenant with God in Christ, that it is not a transaction for the present only you are about, but for your whole life. This God is to be your God, forever and ever, your God, and your guide even to the death (Psalm 48:14). You ar…

They that fear the Lord, that is, with a son-like fear; where love is chiefly predominant, are such as think upon his name (Malachi 3:16). We have thought of your loving kindness, oh Lord, in your temple (Psalm 48:9). You that can spend days, nights, weeks, months, years; and ha…

To fear and tremble at God's word (Isaiah 66:2). To long and to faint after the places where God is worshipped (Psalm 48:2). To be vexed in soul from day to day in seeing and hearing the unlawful deeds of men, and to shed rivers of tears because men break God's commandments (2 P…