Psalms 53

(3.) The thief is a terror to himself, he is always in fear. Psalm 53:5: There were they in great fear — true of the thief. Guilt breeds fear.

If men were persuaded that the Prince had an eye everywhere, doubtless many subjects in England would walk more obediently to the laws of the land than they do: and durst in no wise work such villainies as are daily practiced. Well, however it is with earthly princes, yet this a…

(Genesis 21:6) All that hear shall laugh with me — Sarah means the laughter of faith; then must all that hear of Sarah's bearing of Isaac in her old age, believe in Christ, as Sarah did? (Psalm 65:2) O you that hears prayer, to you shall all flesh come — a figure there must be i…

As the Lord will be seen in the mount of our afflictions to provide for us, so he will see us in the mount of our afflictions, to please himself. The Psalmist describes God looking down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did…

Do they talk of running down religion, and the Scriptures, and the ordinances of Christ? The virgin daughter of Zion has despised them, and laughed them to scorn, the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at them (Isaiah 37:22); and has therefore put them to shame, because G…

Melancholy creates fears in the mind, it excites jealousies; and misprisions. I may allude to that Psalm 53:5. There were they in great fear, where no fear was.

2. It lays down this ground, that we are justified no more by faith, than by the works done, by the saving grace of God after regeneration, and that Paul in the Epistle to the Romans and Galatians, does contend with justiciaries, how those who were from eternity justified, shall…

And this is the way by which you may come to health. For by this work a man may perceive and prove what the name of God is, how mighty and full of power it is to help them that call upon it, by which springs marvelously trust and faith, whereby the chief and first commandment is…