Psalms 64

And Jeremiah 18:18: "Come and let us smite him with the tongue" — you may smite another and never touch him. Psalm 64:3: "Their tongues are arrows shot out." A slanderer wounds another's fame, and no physician can heal these wounds.

I answer, either such as have anger in them, as Solomon speaks of the froward mouth and perverse lips (Proverbs 4:22), when men breathe nothing but fire, and drop coals instead of words; or such as have pride in them, or contempt of others, as when we lessen their abilities, ins…

For the works of God, any special preparation, besides that which is not general, I have not found. The affection, which is proper in the diligent consideration of them, is great reverence and sweet feeling of the glory of God, which any manner of way is found in them (Psalm 64:…

Alas, we have no other remedy, but the ancient Christians' weapons, prayers and tears; these may break their nets, and blunt their weapons; good Jeremiah knew not that they had devised devices against him, but he reveals his cause to God in prayer, and then God shows him their d…

And then, 3. To watch the heart, that does conspire against your grace, and against your soul (Proverbs 4:23): Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. 4. In examining the heart (Psalm 64:6). The heart is deep (Psalm 77:6).

5. Slanderers, turn from your evil ways. The sin of slandering is one of the worst sorts of lying; and the teeth of slanderers are compared to spears and arrows, and their tongue to a sharp sword (Psalm 57:4), and when they utter their slanders, they bend their bow, and shoot th…

He who shows mercy on whom he will, and hardens whom he will, and that by a strong mighty will which no man can resist, he can find fault with no man, though he sin and harden his own heart; for his absolute sovereign will is far above me and my strength; but so does the Lord, s…

Though they may do it with an air of assurance, as if they run no hazard, yet he that rolls this stone, it will certainly return upon him sooner or later. They that speak against religion speak against their own heads, and their own tongues will at last fall upon them (Psalm 64:…

How many witnesses will be brought in, to cast you in the great Day? Your own tongue shall then fall upon you, as the expression is, Psalm 64, 8. And out of your own mouth, God will fetch abundant evidence to condemn you.

So I may speak of Jeremiah, and Joseph, and other servants of God, yes our Lord himself endured the contradiction of sinners. Jesus Christ that was so just and innocent, which did so much good in every place, yet meets with odious aspersions (Psalm 64:3-4): They bend their bows…

God will not help that man that has legs to go, and will not. 8. We are to rouse up ourselves (Psalm 64:7). And there is none that calls upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you.

Tear me, meaning in his name that was rent and torn in pieces with their reproaches: the abjects gathered themselves, etc. Base dust will many times be flying in the faces of the children of God, and Jeremiah tells us, I have heard the defaming of many: and Job and other servant…

So in (Psalm 34:2): My soul shall make her boast in the Lord, the humble shall hear thereof and be glad, that God had preserved and reserved David still. So in (Psalm 64:10): The righteous shall be glad in the Lord and trust in him, and the upright in heart shall glory — that is…

And surely, the Song of the Lamb, recorded (in Revelation 15:3, 4) seems evidently to point at sundry Psalms of David, out of which it was compiled and collected, and which therefore were suitable and fit to be sung upon occasion of their victory over the Beast, especially with…

Eminence is commonly blasted by slander. Psalm 64:3: Their tongues are as arrows shot out. The tongue of a slanderer shoots out words to wound the fame of another, and make it bleed to death.

But rather the unmeasurable heap of our evils ought to be full of spurs or pricks to prick us forward to pray. As also the prophet teaches us by his example, saying: Heal my soul, because I have sinned against you (Psalm 64:5). I grant indeed that in such sayings there should be…

There has been for many days, sin and mischief enough conceived, to root out the generation of the righteous from the face of the earth, had men strength and ability to their will, did not God cut off and shorten their power, and the days of their prevalency. Psalm 64:6: They se…

2ndly, Others infer from the delay of punishment, that there is no Providence that administers the affairs of the world, and regards the good and bad actions of men. For though the being of God be acknowledged, yet if he does not regard what is done here below, nor concern himse…