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…

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.…

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…

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."

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…

If Christ be a lion, he is a lion resting, the devil is a lion roaring (1 Peter 5:8). But the adorations given to Christ by the heavenly hosts speak of him as the Lamb (Revelation 5:8, 12, 13): blessing and glory — to him that sits upon the throne; they do not say, and to the Li…

2. It is the delivery of one from bondage or captivity; we are without him, all prisoners and captives: bound in prison (Isaiah 61:1), sitting in darkness, in the prison house (Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 49:9). Prisoners in the pit wherein there is no water (Zechariah 9:11), the captiv…

3. To make way for our gratitude and thankfulness. Our mercies they flow not from God all at once, but some today, and some tomorrow, for we take them day by day; all together, they are too heavy for us to wield and manage: (Psalm 68:19) Who daily loads us with benefits. Our mer…

Who can fight with a Spirit? God will be too hard for his Enemies at the long run, Psalm 68:21. God shall wound the head of his Enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

And for this reason we see that canticle recorded in the very book of the law itself as something most worthy of praise, and as a deed worthy of remembrance inscribed in the monuments of sacred Scripture. Therefore from these things it is evident that women in those regions were…

God that is so merciful to the humble and broken-hearted, that looks to him that is poor and contrite, and trembles at the word (Isaiah 66:2), he can be severe and just against those that deal proudly, that lift up the heel against him. Psalm 68:21: it is twice repeated, Our God…

God is merciful, but to those that count sin a burden, and misery; God is slow to anger, but yet angry when provoked, abused patience kindles into fury, as water when the mouth of the fountain or course of the river is stopped, breaks out with more violence. God has his arrows o…

1. The necessity of being much and often in thanksgiving will appear by these two considerations. 1. Because God is continually beneficial to us, blessing and delivering his people every day, and by new mercies gives us new matter of praise and thanksgiving (Psalm 68:19): Blesse…

God is good, but not to those that continue in their sins. (Psalm 68:19-21) Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation: Selah. He that is our God, is the God of salvation, and to God the Lord belong the issues from death: But God shall w…

Where wealth is set out 1. By the species and kind of it, gold and silver, gold for hoarding and portage, silver for present commerce. 2. The quantity, thousands, that is, thousands of pieces as that addition is used (Psalm 68:30): They shall submit themselves with pieces of sil…

Then God will see him, when he cannot see himself; then God will heal his perverseness who cannot help himself; then God will guide him when he cannot guide himself; then he will make him mourn, and others mourn, with him, and mourn for him, and he will comfort them both. And ou…

How many thunders in Scripture utter their voice against sin! Psalm 68:21: God shall wound the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his trespasses. Here is a thundering Scripture, but sinners fear not this thunder.

Thus he did to Peter (Acts 12:10). Peter's prayers had opened heaven, and God's angel opens the prison; God can either prevent a snare, or break it (Psalm 68:20). To God the Lord belong the issues from death.

First, by direct descriptions of his glorious Person and incarnation. See among other places, Genesis 3:15; Psalm 2:7-9; Psalm 45:2-6; Psalm 68:17-18; Psalm 110; Isaiah 6:1-4; Isaiah 9:6; Zechariah 2:8; John 1:1-3; Philippians 2:6-8; Hebrews 1:1-3; Hebrews 2:14-16; Revelation 1:…

Of the same nature was his glorious appearance on Mount Sinai at the giving of the law (Exodus 19). For the description of it by the psalmist (Psalm 68:17–18) is applied by the apostle to the ascension of Christ after his resurrection (Ephesians 4:8–11). Only as it was then full…

1. He loves the counseling part of the Word, as it is a Directory and Rule of life: The Word is the Mercurial Statue which points us to our duty; it contains in it credenda and facienda, things to be believed and practiced: A godly man loves the Aphorisms of the Word. 2. A godly…

Awake, and praise, you dwellers of the dust (Isaiah 26:19). In a desperate case he lifts up himself to God the author of life, in whose hand are the ends of death, as it is said in the Psalm (Psalm 68). Job also being liker to a carrion than to a man, trusting upon the power of…

If this be done to the green tree, what shall be done to the dry? If the godly lie among the pots, Psalm 68:13. the wicked shall lie among the Devils. If judgment begins at the house of God, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel? 1 Peter 4:17.

Neither are their fruits merely outward, like Solomon's apples of gold, in pictures of silver, merely painted, but they have a sap that puts a greenness into what they do, and by reason of which they bear and bring forth; for how else are they said to wither also (verse 6) — whi…

Possibly God keeps you short in vanities, that he might bestow upon you that which is solid and substantial good. The Psalmist tells us (Psalm 68:19) that God daily loads us with his benefits. Though some may have more than others, yet every one has his load, as much as he can c…

It is evident by the psalms that were penned on that occasion, especially the 68th Psalm, that the exceeding rejoicings of Israel on that occasion, represented the joy of the church of Christ, on his returning to it, after it has been in a low and dark state, to revive his work,…