Psalms 59

Some of those Jews who had their hands imbued in Christ's blood, were saved by that blood: God loves to magnify his goodness, to display the trophies of free grace, and to set up his mercy above you, in spite of sin: Therefore hope in God's mercy. Branch 2: If God shows mercy to…

And thus did the apostles pray against their persecutors (Acts 4:29): O Lord behold their threatenings, and grant to your servants with all boldness to speak your word. Question. David uses imprecations against his enemies, in which he prays for their utter confusion, as Psalm 5…

5. We may see hence the ground of most of the judgments in the world. Men by their rage against the Church, will not acknowledge God's government of the world for the Church's good: therefore the Psalmist (Psalm 59:13), Consume them in wrath, consume them that they may not be, a…

And thus did the Apostles pray against their persecutors (Acts 4:29): O Lord, behold their threatenings, and grant to your servants with all boldness to speak your word. Question. David uses imprecations against his enemies, in which he prays for their utter confusion, as (Psalm…

And this, in sight of their enemies, and greatly to their grief and vexation; who, though they from time to time exert their utmost, never are able to prevail against them, to bring them under any more, as they had done in former wars. Oftentimes in Scripture, God's Church's dwe…

Notwithstanding, the passive signification may have place: as if the Prophet should say; Whatever is excellent and worthy of commendation among men, proceeds from the mere liberality of God. And in this sense, David calls the Lord, the God of his favor (Psalm 59:10), by whose gr…

He had no means of defense or escape before him, but the Most High is not limited by means. This is a singular support to faith (Psalm 59:9). The experience of his providence hitherto: "unto God that performs all things for me."

Thirdly, a man who walks in a course of sin, willfully, with malice, and knowingly against conscience, and obstinately without reluctance — and persists in this, and lives and dies thus — that man is not within the compass of God's election. There is a phrase in Psalm 59:5: Be n…

First, if they mis-call you merely because you are godly, and hate you because of your holiness, then it is an argument — as Jesus Christ said, because I have called you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Secondly, if they mis-call you when you give no occasion of…

Such was our Saviour's against those that defiled the Temple, when with a miraculous authority, he whipped them out, and vindicated the house of God to the worship of God, from the usurpation of the god of this world, Mammon. And therefore we find that passage (Psalm 59) applied…

God has contempt and dishonor for you, as you have cast contempt and dishonor upon Christ: suitable to your sin shall be your punishment. That is observable that we have in Psalm 59. verse 6. their sin is, They return at evening, they make a noise like a dog, and go round about…

Though we have all from God, yet we should soon grow proud, if God did not diet us, and give out renewed evidences of his love and care over us, by degrees, some now, some then, by fresh influences and acts of grace. Look as David prays (Psalm 59:11) of his outward enemies, Dest…

If the tongue be set on fire of Hell while on earth, ah, how will it be set on fire when in Hell! The sins of the mouth cry for vengeance with an open mouth, and make others cry for it too (Psalm 59:11-13), the holy man (not yet king, but prophet) prays, scatter them, bring them…

And the same thing does Augustine teach, not darkly, though briefly, where he thus says: The goodwill of man goes before many gifts of God, but not before all. But of them which it goes before, it itself is one, then follows his reason: because it is written: His mercy has preve…

Some are filled with hatred of God's people all their days, and never once have an opportunity to exercise it. So David describes them (Psalm 59:6), They return at evening, they make a noise like a Dog, and go round about the City. They go up and down and belch out with their mo…

Psalm 57:1, Be merciful to me O God, etc., verse 3, He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Psalm 59:1, Deliver me from my enemies, O my God. 2. Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, verse 10.