Psalms 91

Nothing shall by any means hurt you. Hit you it may, not hurt you (Psalm 91:10). There shall no evil befall you.

The goldsmith loves his gold, when in the furnace. 3. Because they have more of God's sweet presence (Psalm 91:15). And they cannot be unhappy, that have God's powerful presence in supporting, his gracious presence in sanctifying their affliction.

Is it outward affliction that disquiets? There is a Scripture cordial (Psalm 91:15): "I will be with him in trouble" — not only to behold, but to uphold. Thus, as in the ark was laid up manna, promises are laid up as manna in the ark of Scripture.

Thus the evil one, Satan, shall not prevail against the children of God. 9. If God be our Father, no real evil shall befall us (Psalm 91:10). There shall no evil befall you: it is not said no trouble, but no evil.

Since the flood, life is much abbreviated and cut short: some the womb is their tomb; others exchange their cradle for their grave; others die in the flower of their age; death serves its warrant every day upon one or other. Now when death lies in ambush continually for us, if G…

3. There is kindness that God has in all our afflictions left us a promise; in the most cloudy providences the promise appears as a rainbow in the cloud. (1.) That we shall have God's promise with us (Psalm 91:15). I will be with him in trouble.

But mark; as God's servant has all these wicked ones to be his enemies: so he has garrisons of angels that pitch their tents about him and defend him from them all. So David says, He shall give his angels charge over you, and they shall keep you in all your ways, that you dash n…

Secondly, the reason by which he backs the temptation is taken from Scripture: "For it is written, he shall give his angels charge concerning you." The Scripture is in (Psalm 91:11-12), where the words run thus: "he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your…

There shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repents. They are hereby more excited to praise and glorify God, and are careful to vouchsafe their attendance about the meanest that believe in him (Psalm 91:11-12). He shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all y…

Now I can answer them, Lo this is he that returns such answers to my prayer, that appears so gloriously for me, This is my God in whom I have trusted, on whom I have called, and he has answered, I am not disappointed: Blessed be God, these appearances are the visible returns of…

The creatures desire and wait for the deliverance of God's children (Romans 8). They that trust in God shall walk upon the Lion and the Basilisk (Psalm 91). The third part of peace is prosperity and good success: whatever the righteous man does, it prospers.

It is said of the angel of Thyatira, that his love, service, and works, were more at the last, than at the first (Revelation 2:19): the same should be said of all aged persons. They which are planted in the house of God, bring forth fruit in their old age (Psalm 91:16). It is th…

The Apostles made a law that the Gentiles should abstain from strangled and blood, and things offered to idols (Acts 15:28), yet Paul says afterward to the Corinthians, All things are lawful (1 Corinthians 10:23), and whatever is sold in the shambles eat, and make no question fo…

For whatever they do, shall prosper (Psalm 1:3). And peace with the creatures; as first with the good Angels (Colossians 1:20), who are ministering spirits, sent forth to minister, for their sakes that shall be heirs of salvation (Hebrews 1:14), pitching their tents about them (…

For having spoken of the redemption of the Church, he threatens the obstinate and wicked, and denounces their ruin, to the end they might not think, these benefits of God did anything at all belong to them. Now although he judges the wicked to perdition, yet by this comparison h…

Indeed and although the holy Scripture teaches, and so often confirms it to us that God has care of his Church, yet notwithstanding it is a hard matter to keep our thoughts steady, but we by and by waver when we see all things which the wicked take in hand to prosper. And yet it…

But in the next place he shows what these watchmen are; to wit, those that are mindful of the Lord: that is, such as have his name in an honorable estimation. The Angels also may be put in the number of these watchmen, for we know that is their office (Psalm 91:11). But in regar…

Whenever Satan shall cover his deception by Scripture, and ungodly men shall labor to subvert our faith by the same means, let us borrow our armor exclusively from Scripture for the protection of our faith. Though the promise, he will charge his angels concerning thee, (Psalm 91…

(5.) Is it not fully convictive, that there is a God who takes care of you, in as much as you have found in all the temptations and difficulties of your lives his promises still fulfilled, and faithfully performed in all those conditions? I appeal to your selves, if you have not…

When others are abandoned and exposed to misery, who have every way as much, it may be much more visible security against it; and yet they delivered up, and we saved: Oh, how endearing are such Providences! Psalm 91. 7, 8. (3.) The Introductiveness of a Providence, is of special…

Who bid us expect rest, ease, delight, and things of this kind in this world? He has never told us, we shall be rich, healthy and at ease in our habitations; but on the contrary, he has often told us, we must expect troubles in the world, John 16:33 and that through many tribula…

But if God makes a hedge about us, it is not in the power of all the enemies in the world, whether men or devils, to make a gap in it; they are sure that are under the protection of God. "They that dwell in the secret place of the most high, they shall abide safe under the shado…

When he cannot worke his will in their soules inwardly, as he desires, then he assaies to do them mischiefe by some outward satanicall operations; as possessiō, witchcraft, or striking their bodies with strange diseases, or abusing their dwelling places with feareful noises & a…

But it would seem to look to particular believers, the effect of drawing being most proper and peculiar on them: and so it's to be understood thus, If you will draw me, and by the power of your grace work effectually upon me, then many more shall get advantage by it: which holds…

The Hebrew word is [in non-Latin alphabet] from [in non-Latin alphabet] he spoke. It is a speaking judgment; where God sends the plague, he speaks, and he speaks terribly; the plague is very terrible, as it effects terror; the pestilence which walks in darkness, is called the te…

His peace is not only sweet, but safe and secure: As far as he acts under the law of meekness, it is above the reach of the assaults of those that wish ill to it. He that abides quietly under the shadow of the Almighty, shall surely be delivered from the snare of the fowler (Psa…

Inference. This then is primarily to be looked to, you that would have safety in God in evil times, beware of evil ways: for in these it cannot be: if you will be safe in him, you must stay with him, and in all your ways keep within him, as your fortress; now in the ways of sin…

He hides them in his Pavilion, Psalm 27:5. He covers them with the Golden Feathers of his Protection, Psalm 91:4. God preserved Athanasius strangely, he put it into his Mind to depart out of the House he was in, the night before the Enemies came to search for him.

God takes away a Flower and gives a Jewel. 12. When God Afflicts his Children he deals well with them, because he affords them his Divine presence, Psalm 91:15. I will be with him in trouble.

The fear of the Lord prolongeth daies; in the Original it is, It addeth days. Long life is Promised as a blessing, Psalm 91:16. With long Life will I satisfie him.

Therefore if God does not rescue us from such dangers in the same way as David, let us not complain as if we have been abandoned without help: but let us be content with what is confirmed by daily experience, unless we deliberately wish to gouge out our own eyes, so as not to pe…

Here therefore Anna proclaims that the faithful who flee to God will never be disappointed in their hope, but that their feet will be guarded by him. Thus in Psalm 91:11 God is said to have commanded his angels concerning his faithful ones, to guard them in all their ways, lest…

And in the fifth commandment, (Exodus 20:12) That your days may be long in the land of the living. So (Psalm 91:16) With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation; not only heaven hereafter, but long life here. It is in itself a benefit, a mercy to the godly and th…

In prosperity and adversity we are to depend upon God, and to make use of him in all conditions. (Psalm 91:9): "You shall make the Most High your refuge, and my God your habitation" — a refuge is a place of retreat and safety in a time of war, and a habitation the place of our a…

In short, the Word of God assures us of the gracious presence of God here in the midst of our afflictions, and the eternal enjoyment of God hereafter; that he will be with us in our houses of clay, or we shall shortly be with him in his palace of glory; and so here is matter of…

But a godly man's business is always with God, for God is always with him in trouble, and out of trouble. Therefore that's a notable speech, Psalm 91:9. Because you have made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, your habitation: a refuge, that's a place of retreat i…

As there is a kind of joy in hell among the Devils when one sins that is converted, and when sinners are not converted; so there is joy in heaven at the conversion of a sinner: The Rabbies speak, as if while sinners are rejoicing in their sins, the Angels were grieving for them:…

5. These afflictions do bring more of God's immediate presence into the soul. When we are most assaulted, we shall be most assisted: "I will be with him in trouble" (Psalm 91:15). It cannot be ill with that man with whom God is by his powerful presence in supporting, and his gra…

He that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The eye of providence is ever awake; God gives his angels charge over his children (Psalm 91:11), a believer has a guard of angels for his life-guard; we read of the wings of God in Scripture: as the breast of his mercy feeds…

A believer is like Joseph, who, though the archers shot at him, his bow abode in strength. Cast a believer upon the waters of affliction, he can follow Christ upon the water, and not sink; cast him into the fire, his zeal burns hotter than the flame; cast him into prison, he is…

Tertullian calls Athanasius an invincible adamant; grace makes a Christian not only bear suffering but glory in it (Romans 5:3). A soul steeled and animated with grace can tread upon the lion and adder (Psalm 91:13) and with Leviathan can laugh at the shaking of a spear (Job 41:…

He that keeps Israel, shall neither slumber nor sleep. The eye of providence is ever awake, and God gives his Angels charge over us (Psalm 91:11). A believer has a guard of angels for his lifeguard.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory be to God in the highest. The angels love mankind (especially where there is the new-man) and are ready to do all friendly offices for us: as in our lifetime, they are our supp…

The servant is smitten and sickened, for the master's sake, and God may take from them what he gave them, their lives without sense of pain and dolor, for all beings, yea defects and privations are debtors to the glory declarative of God (Proverbs 16:4; Romans 11:36), yea and no…

Turn ye to me, says the Lord, and I will turn to you. He who was an enemy will turn to be our friend: If God turn to us, the Angels are turned to us; we shall have their tutelage and guardianship, (Psalm 91:11). If God turn to us, all things shall turn to our good; mercies and a…

Projicit ampullas, and sesquipedalia verba. I have read of a Pope, who trod upon the neck of Frederick the Emperor, and as a Cloak for his pride, cited that Text, Psalm 91:13. Thou shalt tread upon the Lion, and the Dragon shalt thou trample under feet:

7. See the great difference between sin and Grace, sin brings a man low, but Grace lifts him high. Sin tumbles him in the ditch, but Grace sets him upon the Throne, Psalm 91:14. I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.