Psalms 83

David speaks of God with reverence (Psalm 50:1): The Lord, even the most mighty God. (Psalm 83:18): That men may know, that you whose name alone is Jehovah, are the most high over all the earth. And the disciples speaking of Jesus, did hallow his name (Luke 24:19): Jesus of Naza…

And to come nearer these times; what reward from God the persecutors of the Church have had, we may read in the book of Acts and monuments, which was penned for that purpose. And to come to these our days, the whole band of those that call themselves leaguers, in France, Italy,…

Better is the poor that walks in his uprightness, than he that perverts his ways, though he be rich. 2. God calls the righteous his hidden ones (Psalm 83:3). They are hidden, first, for their invisibility; their excellency is not known to many; the world can see their infirmity,…

And it was so to David (Psalm 39:9), I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it. O let it be forever remembered, that he whose name alone is Jehovah, is the most high over all the earth (Psalm 83:18). The glorious sovereignty of God is illustriously displayed in two t…

It is true in civil assemblies, and judicatures, Christ has a few number; yet he has a fair and numerous offspring of children, and when they are gathered together, they are a fair beloved world: In the Hebrew many and great, are often one and the same. As one Ruby is worth ten…

And no marvel: for we take from the Church, as fast as they gave to it. In old time they were used to say, What shall we give the man of God (1 Samuel 9)? but now with the sacrilegious church-robbers, they say, Come, and let us take the houses of God in possession (Psalm 83:12).…

To conclude, if God confound and overthrow princes in this wise, that are so high exalted, what shall become of those that are of base condition? There is none then that has any cause to flatter himself: for we must needs become all as stubble, when the wrath of God shall be kin…

He is the Christian indeed that [reconstructed: is] one inwardly, and that circumcision, that baptism, which is of the heart (Romans 2:29). It is called the hidden man of the heart, because the work of grace is a secret thing, and does not make a pompous show in the eye of the w…

When the Spouse in the Song of Solomon had given a description of her beloved to the daughters of Jerusalem, the same who before had scornfully asked, what is your beloved more than another beloved? Now as seriously enquire, where is your beloved gone, that we may seek him with…

Secondly, let us acknowledge the power of divine grace, in keeping up the Christian religion in the world, notwithstanding the universal contradiction, and opposition it has met with. One would think that a way thus spoken against everywhere should have been long ere this lost a…

There was a whole world against a handful of Christians, but we must not follow a multitude to do evil. 2. Their confederacy, the bands of the wicked (Psalm 83:5-7): "They have consulted together with one consent, they are confederate against you, Gebal, Ammon, Amalek." Though t…

1. Sinful: when men agree in evil, as drunkards with drunkards, or robbers with robbers; (Proverbs 1:14) Cast in your lot among us, let us all have one purse. When men conspire against the truth and interest of Christ in the world, or league themselves against his people, as Geb…

USE. To direct us to carry the cause to God, as David in the text. Psalm 83:2-4. For lo, your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate you, have lifted up the head. They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones.

See (1 Kings 12:30) though it be light, or fall heaviest on them that command. As confederates with others; though the sin be not committed by you that are confederates, yet your being such, takes part of (because with) their sin (Psalm 83:3-9); the counselors and combiners are…

First they oppressed them with heavy burdens, then they plotted by treachery to kill their males in the birth, that so in issue they might take away their strength and numbers also, in the issue [reconstructed: this] is subtlety which is one way how hatred expresses itself. Agai…

2 Not to love is a foolish thing; have not God's people enemies enough, that they should fly in the faces one of another? The wicked confederate against the godly, Psalm 83. 3. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people: