Psalms 9

3. Armor of proof; it does furnish us with weapons to fight against the adversaries of the truth. 4. It is the holy seed of which grace is formed: it is semen fidei, the seed of faith (Psalm 9:10). It is Radix Amoris, the root of love (Ephesians 3:17).

God adjourns the sessions, spins out his mercies toward sinners, and if they repent not, his patience will be a witness against them, and his justice will be more cleared in their condemnation, (Psalm 51:4) That you might be justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge.…

1. The relation of a Father (2 Corinthians 6:18). I will be a Father to you: A Father is full of tender care for his child: Who does he settle the inheritance upon but his child? God being our God will be a Father to us; a Father of mercy (2 Corinthians 1:3). the everlasting Fat…

Hell is Domus Servitutis, a house of bondage; a house built on purpose for sinners to lie in. 1. That there is such a house of bondage where the damned lie (Psalm 9:17): The wicked shall be turned into Hell (Matthew 23:33): How can you escape the damnation of Hell. If any one sh…

Ignorance is the nurse of impiety: the Schoolmen say, Omne peccatum fundatur in ignorantia; (Jeremiah 9:3). They proceed from evil to evil, and know not me, says the Lord. Where ignorance reigns in the understanding, lust rages in the affections: (Proverbs 19:2). That the mind b…

The snares they lay for others catch themselves. Psalm 9:16. In the net which they hid is their own foot taken. God loves to counter-plot politicians; he makes use of their own wit to undo them, and hangs Haman upon his own gallows.

Use 2 of Exhortation. Branch 1. If God be so glorious a king, full of power and majesty, let us trust in him (Psalm 9:10), They that know your name will put their trust in you: Trust him with your soul; you cannot put this jewel in safer hands; and trust him with church and stat…

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God. Though the Lord visits for every sin, yet he will in a special manner make inquisition for blood (Psalm 9:12). If a beast did kill a man, the beast was to be stoned, and his flesh must not be eaten (Exodus 21:8).

4. A fourth aggravation is, this loss of the Kingdom of Heaven is accompanied with the punishment of sense. He who leaps short of the bank falls into the river; such as come short of Heaven fall into the river of fire and brimstone; (Psalm 9:17) The wicked shall be turned into h…

Q. What else may be a further proof that there is a God? A. That there is a God is manifestly declared by the strange and wonderful plagues and judgments, that sometimes are inflicted upon notorious sinners upon earth (Exodus 8:19 & 9:16; Psalm 9:16 & 58:10-11 & 79:10). Q. What…

So his Son's name also is all-sufficient to answer all objections for faith to rest upon. 'They that know his name will trust in him' (Psalm 9:10). A second reason why his name is sufficient — though you have and see nothing in yourself, nor any promise made to any grace in you…

And the knowledge of him as so revealing himself, is that which secures our confidence, faith, hope, fear and trust. The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in time of trouble; and they that know your Name, will put their trust in you (Psalm 9:9, 10). What he promi…

In great judgements the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against the ungodliness of men (Romans 1:18), and an intimation is given of what he will farther do hereafter. For as he leaves not himself without witness in respect of his goodness and patience, in that he does good…

It is not an unaccountable severity that they are threatened withal, but it is a just and righteous sentence denouncing punishment proportionate to their sin and crime. Judgment is taken sometimes for punishment itself (Psalms 9:16; James 2:13; 1 Peter 4:17; 2 Peter 2:3). But mo…

From this root do all our fears of the power of men grow (Isaiah 51:12-13): who are you that are afraid of a man that shall die, etc., and forget the Lord your Maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, etc.; our forgetfulness at least, if not a secret denial of God's power in…

We know that we are of God (1 John 5:49); that is, we know it experimentally; they can say of this, as it is said in 1 John 1:1, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the words of life, decl…

In (Job 18:7) 'tis verified of many that their own Counsels have cast them down. And (Psalm 9) toward the latter end, The wicked is snared in the work of his OWN HANDS: Higgajon Selah. You have not those two words put together in all the Book of God besides.

He expostulates about it; 'Therefore do the wicked contemn God' (Psalm 10:13). He threatens them with hell for their forgetting him (Psalm 9:17). Yet sinners are apt to conclude, that God does not see, or disallow anything of that kind (Psalm 94:7).

I would readily grant that the condition of the church was already wretched at the time when Enosh was born, and that hence arose for his pious parents an occasion of lamentation. The word Enosh denotes a miserable man; from the root it signifies one who is mortally sick, one wh…

(Psalm 119:33) Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes, and I shall keep it to the end. (Psalm 9:10) Those that know your name, will put their trust in you. Christ said, but, Follow me, to Matthew.

Of the Devil (John 8:44). And with an emphasis, the wicked (Psalm 9:17). Answer: In these grammatical arguments Mr. Moor shows how weak his cause is, and how dubious from the word "men" and "all"; for Hebrews 9:27, it is said, it is appointed for all men to die, and the Holy Gho…

John 12:45. He that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. Psalm 9:10. They that know thy Name, will put their trust in thee. Philippians 3:8. I count all Things but Loss, for the Excellency of the Knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.—.

This irreligious Inference carnal reason was ready to draw from the dispensations of outward prosperity to wicked men; but now if we would hedfully observe, either the signal retributions of Providence to many of them in this world, or to all of them in the world to come; O what…

Psalm 7. 14, 15, 16. Psalm 9:16 O what exact proportions do Providences and Scriptures hold! little do men take notice of it.

Behold, I will send a blast upon him, &c. So when God glorifies his wisdom and power, in delivering his people from their Enemies, and ensnaring them in the works of their own hands, a double note of attention is affixed to that double work of Providence, Psalm 9:16 higgaion sla…

But the Christian is never superannuated as to the work of religion; indeed, the longer he lives, the more his Master expects from him. When he is full of days, God expects he should be full of fruits (Psalm 9:14): They shall bring forth fruit in old age, they shall be fat and f…

II. That this Judgment is after Death; this is the order that it is manifestly put in, Text. That there are many awful and stupendous judgments that God brings upon men in this world, is not to be denied; in which he declares his holiness and just indignation at sin; and hence w…

3. Understand well obedience, faith the weight of the love of Christ, never quenched with many floods, and sin, hatred of Christ, and the horror thereof. 4. Take a right view of heaven, how it lies in length and breadth, and a right impression of the fire that is never quenched,…

For ought appears by what we have quoted by Morinus, he is like to prove a Notable witness of the Antiquity of the points. It may be well supposed that Morinus writing on set purpose against their Antiquity would produce that Testimony which in his whole Author was most to his p…

This is such a wild conceit as destroys both all law of reason in human societies, and all religious obligation to the Laws of God. For the qualification and measure, I shall mention no other, but that in the Text, that it be always regulated by this, that here goes before it, t…

2. Study his name, if you would sanctify his name. (Psalm 9:10) They that know his name will put their trust in him. 3. Submit to his providence without murmuring.

He must be both God and Man: he must be God that he may see mens Hearts: and he must be man that he himself may be seen. What a solemn day will this be, when Christ shall sit upon the Bench of Judicature! he will judge righteously, Psalm 9:8. Though he himself was wronged, he wi…

If we had more knowledge of God and his ways, we should trust him more, fear him more, love him more. Trust him (Psalm 9:10): And they that know your name, will put their trust in you: for you, Lord, have not forsaken them that seek you. If God were more known, he would be bette…

2. It engages you to dependence and assurance of faith. (Psalm 9:10) They that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, Lord, have not forsaken them that seek you. Whoever has observed God's dealings, will see God is to be trusted, he may be depended upon; if he has…

1. As to the means if you would do so. 1. Know him (Psalm 9:10): They that know your name will put their trust in you, if God were better known he would be better trusted (2 Timothy 1:12): I know whom I have believed. 2. Get a covenant interest in him, if our interest be clouded…

2. When God raises in our minds some particular express hope (as in some cases he may do) to these things that are of a temporal nature, and are conditionally promised, and where our qualification is clear, he will not disappoint us (2 Corinthians 1:12). Though the promises of t…

That is, many times there are such providences, that all that behold them, shall see, and say, that godliness and holiness are matters of advantage and benefit in this world, abstracted from the rewards to come; and so an infallible evidence that the world is not governed by cha…

Whet truths upon the understanding, and agitate your minds in this holy work. 2. My next work is to show, that it is a notable help to godliness, and that appears enough, in that forgetting God is assigned as the cause of all mischief, and remembering God the engagement to all d…

See how God pours out his Name (Exodus 34:5-7): And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Name of the Lord, and the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in go…

That is an idle speculation that does not beget trust: an empty praise, a mere compliment that does not produce a real confidence in God, that he will give us spiritual blessings when we heartily desire them. True knowledge of God's name breeds trust (Psalm 9:10): They that know…

Psalm 7:15. He made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. Psalm 9:15-16. The Lord is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared by the work of his own hand. They are sunk down into the pit they dug: in the net which they hid is their o…

Holiness is the beauty of Earth and Heaven, without which we cannot live well on Earth, nor shall ever live in Heaven: certainly they that jeer and scoff at holiness, and rejoice that they are none of the holy ones, they do as if they should make bonfires, ring the bells, and gi…

Next judgment to this, is being let alone, or given up to a reprobate judgment, and a hardened heart; but that being future, and this (though present) invisible, I shall waive further speaking to them, and show that God has visibly judged this world for sin, from age to age. He…

When Cain had killed his brother, and his conscience felt the stroke of the curse, he was like a distracted man and mad: when Judas had betrayed his Master, he was weary of his life. 5 Sin is against the beauty of man; it takes away the loveliness of men's very complexions, it a…

And surely, the Song of the Lamb, recorded (in Revelation 15:3, 4) seems evidently to point at sundry Psalms of David, out of which it was compiled and collected, and which therefore were suitable and fit to be sung upon occasion of their victory over the Beast, especially with…

These evangelical commands you are bound to observe, if by any means they be wanting you lose your life, if you lose them; forget these, and God will forget you. Now you return your excuse, that while you were busy here and there, busy in planting, and building, busy in plotting…

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An ignorant man can have no love to God — you cannot desire what you do not know. He cannot have faith; knowledge must usher in faith (Psalm 9:10). He cannot worship God aright (John 4:22).

The first is knowledge. Faith is an intelligent grace; though there may be knowledge without faith, yet there can be no faith without knowledge: They that know your name will put their trust in you (Psalm 9:10). Philo calls it fides oculata, quick-sighted faith.

Thus when Saul hunted him, he left a city of gates and barres to trust God in open field. Indeed all the Saints are taught the same lesson, to renounce their own strength, and relie on the Power of God, their own policie, & cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteo…