Psalms 62

But God is immutable. Use 2. See the vanity of the creature; there are changes in everything but in God (Psalm 62:9). Men of high degree are vanity, and men of low degree are a lie.

My hope is in you. And (Psalm 62:5), my expectation is from him; I expect a kingdom from him. A child that is good natured will honor his parent, as expecting all that ever he is like to be worth from him (Psalm 87:8).

Question. How shall we know that we trust in God aright? Answer. If we trust in God aright, then we will trust in God at one time as well as another (Psalm 62:8): Trust in him, Becol gnet, at all times. Can we trust God 1. in our straits?

These trusted in his name and in nothing in themselves. So David in Psalm 62:5 says he trusted in God for salvation and mercy, and exhorts throughout the whole: 'Trust in God fully and at all times, and in no creature' (verses 8-9). And what did he rest upon?

Answ. When God sends riches in abundance to any man, he must think himself to be appointed of God, as a steward over them, for the good disposing of them to the glory of God, and the good of his Church; always remembering this rule of the Prophet David, Psalm 62:10, If riches in…

Let all mutinous thoughts about his dealings with you, be silenced with, It's the Lord; let not too much dwelling on the thoughts of your affliction, to the filling of your heart still with sorrow, incapacitate you for, nor divert you from, humble asking the Lord, what he aims a…

A sign we have him for our Lord when in all his providences, we acknowledge his good hand in it, and he is our Lord if we can so sit down and not murmur nor grudge against him, according to that you read (Lamentations 3:29) the church complaining of her misery, he tells you the…

Thirdly, there is a third work of this Spirit, and that is this; it works as it is a spirit of hope, and that moves a man to wait upon God, that though God should tarry long, and he should pray heartily for such and such requests to be granted; in such a case as this our spirits…

Hope is also necessary to fervent praying, for a man coldly asks for what he does not hope for. Hope respects both means and end, supplies of grace by the way, and our final fruition of God in glory; this is called trust in Scripture, and is the great ground and encouragement of…

We worship God, when we give him such a love as is superlative and transcendental, far above the love that we give to any other thing; that so our respect to other things may give way to our respect to God. The other affection whereby we express our esteem of God is trust; this…

We know it is impossible to subsist, or be without God, for in him only we live, move, and have our being, as it is said (Acts 17:28). Notwithstanding that which David says is also as true, to wit, that nothing is so vain a thing as man: who if he be weighed in a balance, will b…

For the fashion of this world, the scheme of this world passes away. You see it did with Job; in what a goodly fashion was his worldly estate in the morning, how was it dressed and adorned in perfect beauty in all its excellencies (as we heard it before described,) yet before ni…

(Luke 13:24) in the pursuit of happiness, striving, even to an agony. (Acts 26:7) in prayer, serving God instantly; or in a stretched-out manner; indeed, pouring out their hearts before him (Psalm 62:8) as if the body were left like a dead corpse upon the knees, while the spirit…

Faith the very life of prayer, from which springs hope and comfort with it, to uphold the soul, and keep it steady under storms with the promises, and as Aaron and Hur to Moses, keeping it from fainting, strengthening the hands when they would begin to fail, that word, (Psalm 10…

By these words not only did that thought come to his mind that the message about Saul seemed vain and worthless, but he also speaks about all men in general, among whom he also recognizes himself, as if to say: I found nothing but vanity and falsehood in any men whatever. Great…

A man never discerns the scope, the beauty, the order of the truths delivered, till he comes to meditate on them, and to go over them again and again in his thoughts. Psalm 62:11: God has spoken once, twice have I heard this, etc. — that is, when we repeat it upon our thoughts,…

Children are under a providence, and a covenant, as well as we; and it is blasphemous to think we can provide for them better than God. 4. If God give abundance, rest not in them with a carnal complacency (Psalm 62:10). If riches increase, set not your heart on them.

He does not wish for more, but pleases himself with what he had already, and yet in his language would Christ impersonate and set forth the dispositions of a covetous heart. So we are cautioned, (Psalm 62:10). If riches increase set not your hearts upon them. When we set up our…

[We depend upon him for all that we stand in need of] — herein is the nature of trust seen in dependence and reliance upon God, that he will supply our wants in a way most conducive to his glory and our good. Now this depending on God must be done at all times, especially in a t…

Doct. 5. They will not be utterly overcome in their trials that hope in God's judgments. Why? 1. Because this hope will teach us to wait upon the Lord until he shows us better things (Psalm 62:1). My soul, wait upon the Lord, for my expectation is from him — they can tarry a lit…

1. When we have wealth, this profession should be made to draw off the heart from it to better things. When our store is increased, our hearts are apt to be enchanted with the love of these things (Psalm 62:10): If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them. Our hearts are v…

2dly, because God's salvation will come in the best time, and in the best way. (Psalm 62:1) "Truly my soul waits upon God: from him comes my salvation." (Isaiah 30:18) "God is a God of judgment.

As if he should say, Had you no other to feare but a weak sorry man, it were not worth the providing armes or ammunition; but you have enemies that neither are flesh, nor are resisted with flesh; so that here we see what a weak creature man is, not only weaker than Angels, as th…

6. The heart is new where the affections are all faith (as it were) and all sanctified, reason and zeal is a lump of angry reason, and fear a mass of shining reverence, and love only soul sickness and pure adherence to God, the instinct of faith wholly on God, as the last and on…

(4.) There is a word that notes to be silent, not to speak, not to move (Joshua 10:12-13): the Sun was silent, it moved not. It notes a godly submission that the soul dare not speak against God (Psalm 37:7): rest in the Lord — [reconstructed: be subject to] JEHOVAH; LXX: sub dit…

Grace shouts at nothing, wonders at, and admires nothing; weeps slowly, laughs slowly, sings weakly, eats slowly, drinks not wantonly, feasts, and yet trembles and fears, whether it be the outward or the inward man. David says it well (Psalm 62:2): He only is my Rock — I shall n…

It is kept all the year long. It bears the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity (Psalm 62:9); and also because all that is there sold, or that comes there, is vanity; as is the saying of the wise, “All that comes is vanity” (Ecclesiastes…

For the work of a man, shall he render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways (Job 34:2). You render to every man according to his work (Psalm 62:12). I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to…

2. Vanity is taken for lightness. Lighter than vanity is a phrase used, Psalm 62:9 — and of whom is it spoken? of men, and if anything in them be lighter than other, it is their thoughts which swim in the uppermost parts, float at the top, is as the scum of the heart; when all t…

Thirdly, to keep the heart implies to keep the heart in good order — that is, ever to have right ends, to use right means to attain those ends, to have a right measure and degree of every thing. We may indeed set our hearts on the blessings of this life, yet so as in doing so we…

From the first of these we may observe a threefold disproportion between the soul and the creatures. First in regard of their nature and worth, they are base in comparison of the soul of man: when David would show the infinite distance between God and man in power and strength,…

And as Job said in the 31st chapter: I never thought gold my strength, neither have I trusted in it. And (Psalms 62): When your riches increase, put not your hearts to them. And Christ (Matthew 6): Be not careful, saying what shall we eat? or what shall we wear? for the Gentiles…