Psalms 52

His mercy is on them that fear him. 3. If we take sanctuary in God's mercy, we trust in it (Psalm 52:8). As a man is saved by catching hold of a cable.

But it is a sinful boasting, when men display their trophies, boast of their own worth and eminence, that others may admire and cry them up: a man's self is his idol, and he loves to have this idol worshipped (Acts 5:36). There arose up Theudas boasting himself to be somebody. 2…

Go with confidence in this mercy; as when one goes to a fire, it is not doubtingly, perhaps it will warm me, perhaps not. Use 2. Believe in this mercy (Psalm 52:8): I trust in the mercy of God for ever. God's mercy is a fountain opened, let down the bucket of faith, and you may…

Those who have their mouths opened against God, yet God puts bread in those mouths. O the royal bounty of God (Psalm 52:1): "The goodness of God endures continually." Swinish sinners God puts jewels upon, and feeds them every day.

And the want of this is the cause why so few perceive any sweetness or comfort in the Gospel: and why it is so little loved and embraced nowadays. Lastly, if all mankind be shut up under unbelief, the duty of every man is, to labor in using all good means whereby we may be deliv…

And by so much the more odious is your crime, in that you pervert the law, which was intended to be a fence and safeguard to every man's property, and turn it against itself, making it the instrument of your injustice and cruelty. The Psalmist (Psalm 52:2) compares Doeg's malici…

(Proverbs 18:11) The rich man's wealth is his city, and a high wall in his own conceit. God has by the fire, which has consumed so much of the wealth of the city, shown how insufficient a foundation wealth is for any man's confidence, he has made it evident that riches are uncer…

Has not the Lord been pleased to bring you into the honorable estate of sonship? and has put his glory upon your souls, and has honored you by that near relation you have to Christ? he has honored you by the glorious priviledges of the Gospel, he has honored you by giving himsel…

The Righteous shall have Dominion over them in the Morning; They shall have Dominion over the Wicked in the Morning of the Resurrection. They shall then Laugh the Wicked to Scorn, Psalm 52:6. Then shall the difference be seen between the Righteous and the Wicked, between him tha…

Nevertheless, as appears from Psalm 34, which we said in the previous sermon was composed about this history, these thoughts never moved David from his duty or prostrated his spirit. For although he knew he had been denounced to Saul by Doeg and saw death apparently imminent bef…

And let us learn to say with David: Lord, I am silent, because you have done it. And in Psalm 52 he shows that he then meditated on the same doctrine and applied it to his own use, when he says: Doeg was an impious man who did not place his trust in God, but in honors and power,…

Psalm 13:5: I have trusted in your mercy, my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. So, Psalm 52:8: I am like a green olive tree, for I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. As some trees are green in winter, this will make a man flourish notwithstanding opposition, and a…

5. As God's justice is manifested (Proverbs 11:10): "When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices: but when the wicked perish, there is shouting." (Psalm 52:6): "The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him: Lo, this is the man that made not God his…

Carnal men think the difference between them and others will ever hold out when they glitter in the world: O but the time is coming when death will undeceive them. And at the day of judgment they will be sensible of it, when they shall be refused as the outcasts of the world; an…

David when his old sins troubled him, the sins of his youth (Psalm 25:7): Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember me, for your goodness' sake, O Lord. When his enemies consulted his ruin (Psalm 52:1): Why do you boast yourself i…

Secondly, I shall draw some inferences from the consideration of sin, as it is contrary to the good of man. 1. Then I infer, that they are miserably mistaken that seek for any good in sin; as sin is, so its effects are, all evil to man: there are (woe to them) that call evil goo…

Many ignorant people thank God they have good hearts; but that heart can no more be good which lacks grace than a body can be sound which lacks health. All are not healed because they love their sickness (Psalm 52:3): you love evil. Many embrace their disease.

Every man would catch at a Godhead, and either assume it to himself, or cast it, many times upon other creatures, viler and more ignoble than himself. Snatch the reins of government out of God's hand; and exalt their own wills into an absoluteness as liable to control from none;…

Lo, (says he) this is the man that made not God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches. But I am like a green olive-tree in the House of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever, Psalms 52:7, 8. While others trust in the riches of their own righteousne…

9th Commandment: You shall not bear, etc. He breaks this commandment: who envies at the prosperity of his neighbor (1 Timothy 6:4); who seeks only his own good report; who is suspicious (1 Corinthians 13:5); who gives rash or hard sentence against others (Matthew 7:1); who takes…