Psalms 68

Christ did not leave his disciples houses and lands, but he left them his blessing. 2. Christ ascended as a conqueror, in a way of triumph (Psalm 68:18). You have led captivity captive, &c.

God brought Daniel out of the Lion's Den, Sihon out of Babylon. God in his due time gives an issue out of trouble (Psalm 68:20). The tree which in winter seems dead, in the spring revives: Post nubila Phaebus: affliction may leap on us as the viper did on Paul, but at last this…

God is a God of truth, and he is true in his threatenings; the threatenings are a flying roll against sinners. God has threatened to wound the hairy scalp of every one that goes on still in his trespasses (Psalm 68:21). He has threatened to judge adulterers (Hebrews 13:3), to be…

They having my image upon them how dared you abuse my picture. At last God's children shall come forth out of all their calumnies, as a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold (Psalm 68:13). 2. God will make an open and honorable recital of all their good dee…

3. The minatory part of the Word, the threatenings of God stand as the angel with a flaming sword to deter us from sin, and make us doers of God's will; (Deuteronomy 11:28) A curse if you will not obey. (Psalm 68:21) God shall wound the hairy scalp of every one that goes on stil…

Psalm 45:6, "Your throne O God is for ever and ever," applied to Christ (Hebrews 1:8): "But to your Son he says, your throne O God is for ever and ever." Psalm 68:17, 18, 19, "The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels, the Lord is among them as in Sinai i…

Q. What is the number of Angels? A. Though they be not infinite, yet their number is very great, and to us they are innumerable (Daniel 7:10; Psalms 68:17; Matthew 26:53; Hebrews 12:22). Q. What end and office were they created for?

And when it rested he said, Return O Lord to the many thousands of Israel. And from there the Ark was called the Ark of God's strength (see Psalms 68:1, 2; 132:8; 2 Chronicles 6:41), because it was a pledge of God's putting forth his strength and power in the behalf of the peopl…

(1) As it was regal, glorious and triumphant; so it belonged properly to his kingly office, as that wherein he triumphed over all the enemies of the Church. See it described (Ephesians 4:8, 9, 10) from Psalm 68:18. Satan, the World, Death and Hell being conquered, and all power…

(2) To declare the redemption of all the elect that were to follow him in their several generations. This is triumphantly declared in Heaven (Psalm 47:5, 6, 7; Psalm 68:18, 24, 25, 26). 2. By way of preparation.

1. In doing good to them that persecute us: so says our Savior Christ, Pray for them that hurt you, that you may be the children of your father which is in heaven (Matthew 5:45): for he makes the sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and unjust. 2.…

If a man should make another an offer of a thousand pound for a trifle, and he should accept it, you would not say, 'twas because he prized the trifle more, that's improbable; but because he did not believe the offer: So when God offers heaven upon such terms as he does, we do n…

His eye will affect his heart, and his heart spirit the hand of his power to relieve. He has prepared of his goodness for the poor (Psalm 68:10). 6. This is comfort in the low estate of the Church at any time.

And as scum ready for the fire. And then again, they are as smoke in Psalms 68:2. They are as smoke that is dry.

Thus also in (2 Chronicles 6:18) do we find Solomon in a rapture of admiration on this account: But will God in every deed dwell with men on earth, etc.! And the Psalmist (Psalm 68:18) says that gifts are given to the rebellious — the most insolent of enemies — that the Lord God…

Theology as a complex of spiritual gifts — Extraordinary or ordinary gifts — Ordinary gifts peculiar to the ministry or common to all — Christ the bestower of all gifts (Psalm 68:19; Acts 2:33; Ephesians 4:8) — The Hebrew word signifies both to receive and to give — Christ the a…

And were we suitably sensible of sin, and did we thoroughly believe this truth, our hearts would laugh within us, as Abraham's once did, to know that this was given to Christ in commission — to justify sinners, and that He is so well fitted for this business that He is commissio…

The word portion is not in the original, but well supplied, It is only, I will divide him many, as the word is often used, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, That is, He shall in dividing the spoil, be above the strongest. The words infer, and take in these three, 1.…

But 2. There is not only consolation for a believer's particular condition from this ground, but also in reference to the public case of God's Church: There are four things especially, that seem very heavy to the Church, and public work of God; in reference to all which we will…

And with that let your faith triumph in a further evidence of justification. Thus Ephesians 4:8, out of Psalm 68:18, the Apostle says, 'When he ascended up on high he led captivity captive' (to which Hebraism the Latin phrase 'vincere victoriam,' to win a victory, does answer) —…

Therefore all the grace he bestows on us he is said first to receive even now when in heaven: Acts 2:33 says of him, after his going to heaven and being exalted, that he received the promise of the Spirit, which in John 14:16 he told them he would pray for. And this is part of t…

And partly also for the terror of their enemies. When David had said, The Lord has chosen the hill of Zion to dwell in (Psalm 68:16), he adds verse 17: The Chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels, implying, that no kingdom in the world has such defense, and…

The angels are an assembly of holy ones, that always behold his face; therefore always lauding and glorifying God. So God is said to be terrible in his holy places, (Psalm 68:35) whether heaven, or the church; indeed the awful carriage of his people in his worship should be one…

(Ephesians 2) Killing enmity in himself. And again, chapter 4, out of Psalm 68: You are gone up on high, you have led captivity captive, etc. He uses the same figure also in his Epistles to the Romans, Corinthians and Colossians.

In Romans 8 it is said: For sin he condemned sin. Psalm 68 and Ephesians 4: He has led captivity captive. Hosea 13: O death I will be your death, O hell I will be your destruction.

God's kingdom is the place of joy (Romans 14:17). Rejoicing belongs to the people of God (Psalm 68:3; Psalm 106:5). The music of the Temple was typical, and figured the joy of the Catholic Church, where is the assurance of remission of sins, and life eternal.

To this appertains the similitude of spoils, which the Prophet uses. For he ascended into heaven, led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men (Psalm 68; Ephesians 4:8). And afterwards he adds, that the abasing of Christ, was the beginning of his imperial dignity.

So the saints are called upon to exercise high degrees of joy: Rejoice, says Christ to his disciples, and be exceeding glad, Matthew 5:12. So it is said, Psalm 68:3. Let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God; yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. So in the same book of…

And Chapter 6:9. 'My Dove, my Undefiled, is but one.' Psalm 68:13. 'Ye shall be as the Wings of a Dove, covered with Silver, and her Feathers with yellow Gold.' And 74:13. 'O deliver not the Soul of thy Turtle-Dove unto the Multitude of the Wicked.'

(3.) As the freeness of mercies dispensed by Providence, engageth praise; so the Multitudes of mercies heaped this way upon us, strongly oblige the soul to thankfulness. Thus David comes before the Lord encompassed with a multitude of mercies to praise him, Psalm 5:7 We have our…

What a scourge were Absalom and Amnon to David? Well then, if God have set the solitary in Families, as it is Psalm 68:6 built an house for the desolate, given you comfortable relations, which are springs of daily comfort and refreshment to you, you are upon many accounts engage…

The mighty power of God which he made appear to his people, in that glorious representation of his majesty on Mount Sinai, is by this phrase expressed. There his chariots were seen to be twenty thousands, even many thousands of Angels, and the Lord among them in that holy place…

First, that though God calls for a great deal of diligence at your hands in the matters of your souls, yet this does no way presuppose, as if you could draw out, or put forth this diligence by your own native power; but that God that commands your strength, that God must give yo…

As there was of Solomon's being king, when he was proclaimed by Benaiah, Zadock and Nathan (1 Kings 1:31, 32, 33, 34). The solemnization of it was in his Ascension (Psalm 68:17, 18; Ephesians 4:8, 9, 10). Typed by Solomon's riding on David's mule to his throne, all the people cr…

The Canonical authority of the Epistle to the Hebrews having been by some called into question, we must in our entrance declare both what it is which we intend thereby, as also the clear interest of this Epistle therein; for this is the foundation of all those ensuing discourses…

For in giving the Law God spake on earth (Hebrews 12:25). That God in this glorious manifestation of his presence on Mount Sinai, made use of the ministry of Angels, both the nature of the thing declares, and the Scripture testifies (Psalm 68:17). The voices, fire, trembling of…

Again, it is used (Exodus 2:8) where Moses' Sister, who called her Mother to Pharaoh's Daughter, is termed [in non-Latin alphabet]; and her age being then probably not above nine or ten years old, with the course of her life in her Mother's house, declare her sufficiently to hav…

But this answers not to the description given afterwards of them in Ezekiel, much less with the same appellation given to the winds and clouds (Psalms 18:10). The word has a great affinity with [in non-Latin alphabet] a chariot; so are the angels of God called his chariots (Psal…

Secondly, their several employments also did greatly differ. The work of Angels was immediately to attend the Throne of God, to minister before him, and to give glory to him, and to execute the commands of his Providence in the government of the works of his hands (Psalm 68:17;…

Psalm 45. Psalm 68. Psalm 69.

Creatures though full of love cannot speak good, and though full of malice they cannot speak bad, if God forbid: then much less can they do us hurt, and least of all hurt our lives, if God withhold. David triumphs in his interest in such a God (Psalm 68:20), Our God is the God o…

Hezekiah mourned as a Dove. 3. For their beauty and purity (Psalm 68:13). 4. For their chaste adhering to their own mate, in which respect, that of (Isaiah 38:14) is thought to allude to the mourning of the one, after the other's death.

Believers have a notable security and defense, Christ's bed and his guard, if he be sure, they are sure, one watch watches both him and her. The same power of God (Isaiah 27:2), the twenty thousand of Angels, which are his Chariots (Psalm 68:17), are for the believer's protectio…

The wicked must forsake their way of sin, and turn to the Lord, and then he will have mercy, and abundantly pardon (Isaiah 55:7). God threatens to go on to punish such as go on to transgress (Psalm 68:21). He will wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such as go…

"Lo, he that—declareth unto man what is his thought—the Lord, the God of hosts is his name." So as to raising the dead: Psalm 68:20. "Unto God the Lord belong the issues from death."

Obj. But Heman says (Psalm 88:13), In the morning shall my prayer prevent you, so the word [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] in piel, antecessit, antevert it, praeoccupavit, anticipavit; its to go before in time, in earliness (Psalm 119:148), Mine eyes prevent the night watch. Deutero…

(For that is the base nature of ours;) but grace teaches us otherwise, we must learn to know God, to honor and magnify him in our thoughts for himself. Some men have a greater knowledge of God, some less; he that has more, he is able to set him up higher in his apprehension, and…

First, by direct descriptions of his glorious person and incarnation. See among other places, Genesis 3:15; Psalm 2:7, 8, 9; Psalm 45:2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Psalm 68:17, 18; Psalm 110; Isaiah 6:1, 2, 3, 4; chap. 9:6; Zechariah 2:8; John 1:1, 2, 3; Philippians 2:6, 7, 8; Hebrews 1:1, 2,…

OF the same nature was his Glorious Appearance on Mount Sinai at the giving of the Law (Exodus 19). For the description thereof by the Psalmist (Psalm 68:17, 18) is applied by the Apostle to the Ascension of Christ after his Resurrection (Ephesians 4:8, 9, 10, 11). Only as it wa…

This is quietness. Our Savior has pronounced the blessing of adoption upon the peace-makers (Matthew 5:9), [non-Latin text], those that are for peace, as David professes himself to be (Psalm 120:7), in opposition (such an opposition as meekness is capable of) to those that delig…