Psalms 76

Let not men provoke the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, whose eyes are as a lamp of fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him (Nahum 1:6). He shall cut off the spirit of princes (Psalm 76:12). Use 3: If Christ is a great King, submit to him.

What can pose omnipotency? The Lord cuts off the spirit of princes (Psalm 76:12). He counterworks his enemies, he pulls down their flags and banners of pride, infatuates their counsels, breaks their forces; and he does it with ease:

God can with a breath crumble us to dust; with a word he can unpin the world, and break the axle-tree of it in pieces: He pours contempt upon the mighty (Job 12:21). He cuts off the spirit of princes (Psalm 76:12). He is Lord Paramount, who does whatever he will (Psalm 115:2).

On the other side it is pleaded with more probability, that Hierusalem was the seat of his kingdom. For (1.) it was anciently called Salem, which name is afterwards occasionally applied to it, as that whereby it was known (Psalms 76:2): "In Salem is God's tabernacle, and his dwe…

His power is as large as his will: What his soul desires, even that he does (Job 23:13): he bridles the proud waves (Job 38:11). He cuts off the spirit of princes (Psalm 76:12). 3. God's holiness is excellent.

But when you have the confidence to contest with him in a sinful way, what will become of you? You, even you are to be feared, and who can stand in your wrath when you are angry? (Psalm 76:7) Man may make his part good against man, but who can cope with the Lord himself?

And though vows be made of things and actions indifferent, yet they are not any parts of God's worship — which is the point to be proved. Again they allege Psalm 76:11: Vow to God and perform it. And they say that this commandment binds all men.

1. These places were holy, because in them were the standing signs and symbols of God's presence, which is therefore called his symbolical presence, to distinguish it from his extraordinary presence before-mentioned, and from his spiritual presence, which is not tied to any plac…

As Saul, by his persecution of David for the title God had given him to the kingdom, made him fitter to succeed him in the throne and manage the government. God uses persecutors as lances, which, while they wound us, let out the purulent and oppressive matter, and makes them ins…

To the former; that in general you may and must swear and vow that you will keep God's Commandments (Psalm 119:106), so does David. And in Scripture we are told to make vows, and pay them to the Lord (Psalm 76:11). Vowing ourselves and all that we have to God is necessary; seque…

By the word judgment, he understands a well ordered government, and not the sentence which the judge pronounces upon the judgment seat: for the verb, To judge, among the Hebrews signifies to rule, govern, and direct things. He adds, that this judgment shall extend throughout all…

But because the heathen and profane people had no ears, therefore he summons not them to hear. We know that the Jews had this privilege above other nations, that God manifested himself to them: as it is said in the Psalm: God is known in Judah, his name is great in Israel (Psalm…

For my own part, I willingly refer it to both; to wit, The holy one of Israel shall be called your redeemer, and the God of the whole earth. He mentions all the earth, (that is to say; the whole world:) for before, the name of God was only known in Judea (Psalm 76:1); but after…

The tops also of these are mentioned to show their height, and she is here supposed to be on the top of them. Lastly, it is added, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of leopards, not designing any new place, but showing that lions and leopards often used to dwell upon hill…

3. It shows his affection that he so names her now, wishing her a part of his own peace, and entitling her to it. Or, 2. this word may be derived from Salem, which properly taken, is Jerusalem (Psalm 76:1) and (Hebrews 7:1) Melchisedec was king of Salem, which signifies peace, a…

And when his anger is stirred up by your sins, and blown into a flame, and breaks forth upon you, what will you do? You cannot hide your selves in any place where his all-seeing eye will not find you; you cannot fly into any place, where his stretched-forth arm will not reach yo…

Surely did not God set bounds to men's raging lusts, the world would not be habitable for the saints. God restrains that wrath which shall not turn to his praise, and saints' advantage, and when wicked men have belched out as much rage as they can, there is a remnant yet behind…

What says he? "You, even those are to be feared; and who may stand in your sight when once you are angry?" (Psalm 76:7). He is a holy God; he hates, and is resolved signally to testify his displeasure at sin; and woe to those that must be made the monuments of that displeasure o…

4. The actings of the Lord are in great things, as the translation of kingdoms, dominions, and thrones (Daniel 4:32; Jeremiah 27:5, 6, 7). In all the rises and fallings of Princes, the stars of whatever magnitude (Isaiah 40:21; 1 Samuel 2:7, 8; Psalm 76:12). 5. His actings are i…

And the Lord filled his Tabernacle with his presence: the Tabernacle was a type of the Church, and did typifie his especial presence with his people in Church-communion. And as God is there present, so observe the expressions of his especial presence; he is said to dwell there,…

Answ. Psalm 97:1 The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice; it is well for us that the Lord reigns, or else his people could never stand before the rage of the world, and Devil; one or two wolves, were able to devour a flock of sheep, what then would many wolves do amongst sheep, i…

Now the anger of God, which your breach of promise kindles, as appears by this Text, is a dreadful fire. Oh what Creature can stand before it! as Asaph speaks, Psalm 76:7. You, even you are to be feared: and who may stand in your sight when once you are angry? Consid. 3.

And no less is the glorious Power and Mercy of God discovered in bridling the rage and fury of Satan and his Instruments, that they break not in upon the Inheritance of the Lord, and destroy it. Surely, the wrath of man shall praise you, and the remainder of wrath you shalt rest…

That Maxime came from Hell, Quisque fortunae suae faber: Every man is the Contriver of his own Condition: Certainly, The good of man is not in his own hand, Job 21. 16. Promotion comes not from the East or West, Psalm 76:6, 7. This being acknowledged, it is evident, that in all…

But that is not all; it is not enough we discover that, but also our submission to his wise and powerful government, when we refer the matter to his disposal, and can see that he can work out his own ends, out of all the confusions which happen there, out of sins, errors, wars,…

2. With God is Terrible Majesty. Psalm 76:12. He is terrible to the Kings of the Earth.

Hence his life is bound up in the favour of God: all his help is in that; he has no where else to go; he is resolved in this, that if God do not save him, he must perish; if he be not his portion, he must have none: if God should fail him, he has no where else to repair, but mus…

Now a peaceable disposition evidences something of God in a man; therefore God loves to dwell there. Psalm 76:2: In Salem is God's tabernacle. Salem signifies peace; God dwells in a peaceable spirit.

15. The Lord would have us dead to valiant and to mighty men, to captains (Isaiah 3:1, 3-4). Indeed he makes true (Psalm 76:5): The [reconstructed: stout]-hearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep, and none of the men of might have found their hands. Verse 6: At your rebu…

Under the old testament, 'In Judah is God known; and his name is great in Israel. At Salem is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion' (Psalm 76). 'He showed his word to Jacob, and his judgments and statutes to Israel.

2. In over-ruling his Enemies. He pulls down their pride, befools their policy, restrains their malice, Psalm 76. 10. The remainder of wrath thou shalt restrain: Or as it is in the Hebrew, thou shalt girdle up. That stone cut out of the Mountains without hands, which smote the I…

He has unspeakably various and effectual ways for the stifling of their conceptions to give them dry breasts and a miscarrying womb. He can stop their fury when he pleases; surely, says David, the wrath of man shall praise you, the remainder of wrath shall you restrain (Psalm 76…

If we believe God to be always present with us, fear will continually take hold of us, and we shall say of every place, as Jacob did of Bethel, surely God is in this place, how dreadful is this place? When we have at any time provoked God, if we believe the just God is at hand t…

We may truly and safely say of our divines and writers, the voice of God, and not of man: Such abundance of the Spirit has God poured into some men, that it is not they, but the Spirit of the Father that speaks in them. Psalm 76:10. What infinite cause has this age to [reconstru…

§. 112. Of Vows. The other helps to extraordinary prayer is making of vows, which is both expressly commanded (Psalm 76:11) and also has been by God's children much practiced. Jacob vowed a vow to God as he was going to his uncle Laban (Genesis 28:20-21).

Secondly, Paul (1 Timothy 4:8) affirms that bodily exercise profits little, but godliness is profitable for all things; in which words he opposes godliness to bodily exercise, and therefore godliness, or the worship of God, consists not in them. But the words of David are allege…

O let us be thankful to our eternal preserver for it. It is said in (Psalms 76:10), Surely the wrath of Man shall praise you, and the Remainder of wrath shall you restrain. But surely it becomes us to praise God, in that we have yet sustained no more damage by the wrath of the D…

When Christ girds his sword upon his thigh, with his glory and majesty, and in his majesty rides prosperously, his right hand teaching him terrible things, it is because of truth and meekness and righteousness (Psalm 45:3-4). God will cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the…

If there be glorious prosperity to the church of God approaching, those that are the most meek, will have the largest share in it: for when Christ rides forth, in his glory and his majesty, it is because of truth, meekness and righteousness (Psalm 45:3-4). And when God remarkabl…

Is a religious vow to be made to God alone, and not to any creature? Yes, to God alone (Jeremiah 44:25-26; Psalm 76:11). Well then, do not the Papists err, who maintain vows may be made to saints departed, and to cenobiarchs, that is, to priors of monasteries or abbeys?

Does the Almighty Power, unsearchable wisdom and infinite goodness of God so far manifest themselves in his providence, that it extends itself, even to the first fall, and all other sins of angels, and men; and that not by a bare permission, but such as has joined with it, a mos…

(1.) It brings sin to mind, which is the cause (Psalm 25:17, 18). (2.) The people of God know what a sad thing it is to have to do with an angry God (Psalm 76:7). 3. Of the third; from the pride of heart which is in the wicked (Jeremiah 43:2), they are too good to be reproved, w…