Psalms 65

Is it sin that troubles? There is a Scripture cordial (Psalm 65:3): "Iniquities prevail against me; as for our transgressions you shall purge them away" — or as it is in Hebrew, Te eapperem, "you shall cover them." Is it outward affliction that disquiets?

1. God's readiness to hear prayer, Deus paratus ad vota exaudienda, did God forbid all addresses to him, it would put a damp upon the trade of prayer, but God's ear is open to prayer. It is one of the names by which God is known; (Psalm 65:2) "O you that hears prayer." The Aedil…

Resp 1. Because he only hears prayer. (Psalm 65:2) O you who hears prayer. Hereby God is known to be the true God, in that he hears prayer.

The Sun has not its light for itself, but for us. It does enrich us with its golden beams, the earth brings us a fruitful crop, and to show how joyful a mother she is in bringing forth, the Psalmist says, the Valleys are covered with Corn, they shout for joy, they also sing, Psa…

The Scriptures which we cited before do confirm this, as Psalm 18:23. I kept myself from my iniquity; and 2 Chronicles 6:29. where Solomon says, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief; or as it is 1 Kings 8:38. The plague of his own heart. This implies these tw…

Third, in urging this doctrine more hardly upon the people, to cause them not to rest on the letter of the law, but seek to the promised Messiah, in whom only was their righteousness — as young heirs and minors are kept under tutors while their minority expires. But, first, who…

(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…

Lastly he shows what the end of our redemption is, when he says, That they shall sanctify his name: for we are all created to the end God's goodness may be magnified among us. But because the most part of men do shun this end, God has chosen his Church, in which his praises do s…

The Prophet in this place then magnifies this joyful fruit of God's favor, by means whereof, those that were strangers far off before, shall now come and be made near to him. To this agrees that in Psalm 65: Because you are a God that hears prayer, therefore shall all flesh come…

We find that phrase often, A man of God, the Hebrews say, to call one a man of God, is as much as to say, he is an extraordinary man, a man of an excellent spirit, a Prophet, a holy man: In that Psalm where the Church is shadowed under the similitude of a Vine, It is said, She d…

I sleep, etc. Song of Solomon 5:2. It's a ground of cheerfulness, that we may sing over these to God, with expectation to be pardoned and delivered from them, as Psalm 65:3. 3. When the matter is different from our case, some think it's hard to sing such Psalms.

Where we may see, (beside what was spoken upon this expression, chapter 2:17.) 1. That Christ conforms his answers to our suits, and makes the one as extensive as the other; the term she proposed, is that he accepts of. 2. His hearing of one prayer, gives ground to his people to…

In this sense God may be said to bless and sanctify the Sabbath day, because he blesses and sanctifies us on that day. As the Psalmist most elegantly, and in a high strain of poetry, says, that God crowns the year with his goodness (Psalm 65:11). Not that the plenty and fruitful…

Psalm 65, part of the fifth verse. By terrible things in righteousness will you answer us.

O how welcome is a shower to the thirsty ground! Hence the little hills are said to rejoice on every side, indeed to shout for joy, and sing when a shower comes (Psalm 65:12-13); but never was shower of rain so sweetly refreshing to the thirsty earth, as Gospel-showers are to gr…

Now this is a ground of confidence, that he has joined his glory and our good together: And that God's praise waits, while our deliverance waits. (Psalm 65:1) Praise waits for you, O God, in Zion. You think your comfort stays, and all this while God's honor waits.

Wherein does Gods dealing well with his People appear? In enriching them with variety of Mercies; his Footsteps drop Fatness, Psalm 65:11. He Feeds, Adopts, Crowns them; and is not this dealing well with them?

2. You lose many an argument of trust and confidence. Answers of prayer are an argument against atheism, which is so natural to us, and inbred in our hearts, it persuades us that there is a gracious being; (Psalm 65:2) O you that hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come: we have…

By taste I mean spiritual sense, to have the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost given to us (Romans 5:5). We come to the feast of the soul, that our hungry consciences may taste of the fatness of God's house (Psalm 65:4). That our thirsty souls may drink of…

Does God hear the raven when it cries, and will he not hear the righteous when they cry? When the earth opens its mouth and thirsts, God satisfies it (Psalm 65:9-10). Does the Lord satisfy the thirsty earth with showers, and will he not satisfy the thirsty soul with grace?

Disobedience is a sin against our vows; we have taken the oath of allegiance. Your vows are upon me, O God (Psalm 65:12). We have many vows upon us: our baptismal vow, our sacramental, our national, our sick-bed vows.

But when through the promises a Christian's heart is cheered and comforted, now he is enriched with pleasant fruits — camphire and spikenard and frankincense; he is like a tree laden with fruit. Another means to fruitfulness is humility; the low grounds are most fruitful (Psalm…

2. The Anabaptists from these places say none are to be baptized, but such as are so in Covenant, and as have these promises fulfilled in them, in whom the Lord has wrought a new heart, and a new spirit; and that there is no external covenanting under the New Testament. But then…

Now this sorrow of a godly man for sin, is not a despairing sorrow; he does not mourn without hope. Psalm 65:3. Iniquities prevail against me: There is the Holy Soul weeping; as for our transgressions thou shalt purge them away: There is Faith triumphing. Divine sorrow is excell…

This ministers occasion to us to thank God, to fear before him, and always to remember Lot’s wife. I saw then that they went on their way to a pleasant river, which David the king called “the river of God;” but John, “the river of the water of life” (Psalm 65:9; Revelation 22:1;…

Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. Psalm 65:12-13. The little hills rejoice on every side.

When God will do good for Zion, he requires that his Remembrancers give him no rest, until he do it. Isaiah 62:7. And yet sometimes in the close of their Supplications, gives them an Answer, by terrible things, Psalm 65:5. He is sometimes Silent to the Prayers of his People, Psa…

So does the Lord resemble himself to a master of a family gone to bed with his children, who yet being wearied by the knocking of his neighbor, cannot choose but rise in the night, and lend him bread to strangers come to his house. 8. Some also say that prayer commands God, as (…