Psalms 94

Question 2. How is this joy wrought? Answer. 1. It arises partly from the promise: as the bee lies at the breast of the flower, and sucks out the sweetness of it, so faith lies at the breast of a promise and sucks out the quintessence of joy (Psalm 94:19). Your comforts delight…

That this is the meaning, is clear by the foregoing words, his iniquity is bound up; as the clerk of the assizes binds up the indictments of malefactors in a bundle, and at the assizes brings out the indictments and reads them in court, so God binds up men's sins in a bundle, an…

5. As the kingdom of grace increases, so a Christian's comforts increase. Comfort belongs to the bene esse, or well-being of a Christian; it is like sweet-meat, delicious to the taste (Psalm 94:19). The more grace, the more joy; as the more sap in the root, the more wine in the…

When our sin finds us out by affliction, happy are we, if by the light of affliction we find out sin. Blessed is the man whom God chastens, and teaches out of his Law (Psalm 94:12). There are unseen causes many times of our troubles; you have an advantage now to sift out the see…

And try what relief such a course will afford you. Surely if your heart is sincere in this, you shall be able to say with that holy man in Psalm 94:19: In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

Have you many afflictions in inward, or in outward man, and no comfort in them? It is an uncomfortable sign to you; the life of sanctification is not so shed abroad in your hearts, that you may gather you have life, but if you find that in the multitude of your thoughts within y…

Jesus loved Lazarus, and yet verse 6: When he had heard that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. It may come sooner than you expect (Psalm 94:18). When I said my foot slips your mercy, O Lord, held me up.

All things are naked and bare in his sight. Reason itself shows, that he which made the eye cannot but see, he that made the heart and mind, cannot but understand the frame and motion thereof (Psalm 94:9-10, etc.). 2. This shows the madness of those which say, God hears not, see…

Christ then being called by authority, as he which is furnished with a sovereign power, he calls the nations to bring them in order touching their duties, and to subject them to the word. Now he says they shall be ready to obey, though they were not known of him: not that the So…

So then, if God corrected the Jews because of the contempt of his name and religion; how much more were the Edomites and other enemies to be roughly dealt with, being the sworn enemies thereof? The Prophet meets with this so troublesome a temptation by bringing in God the avenge…

And on the contrary, how convincingly clear are those Providences, that demonstrate the Being, wisdom, Power, Love and Faithfulness of God, in the supporting, preserving and delivering of the Righteous, in all their dangers, fears and difficulties? In these things the Lord shews…

We shall know hereby what we have to do, and how to carry our selves under all changes of conditions. You can learn the voice and rrand of the rod only from the Word, Psalm 94:12 The Word interprets the works of God. Providences in themselves, are not a perfect guide.

To be broken in the place of Dragons and covered with the shadow of death imports the most dismal state of affliction: yet even then a gracious heart turns not back (i. e.) does not for all this abate one drachm of love to God: God is as good and dear to him in afflictions as ev…

A godly man says, If God kill me, yet will I trust in him; and some wicked men say — in effect, if not in the letter — Till God kills us we will sin against him. The Psalmist asks the question (Psalm 94:4-5): How long shall the wicked? how long shall the wicked triumph? How long…

Vers. 12. His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk and fitly set. The third thing commended in him, is in verse 12, and it is his eyes, which are several ways described: eyes in the natural body are the organs, whereby we discern external objec…

He looks through our very souls, and there is not the least hint of a thought, not the least breath of a desire stirring in us, but it is more distinctly visible to him, than the most opaque bodies are to us. The Lord knows the thoughts of men that they are vanity (Psalm 94:11).…

But especially God speaks with his Word by his Spirit, when he sends his Spirit for conversion, and to effect a saving change: thus God speaks when he calls blind sinners out of darkness into his marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9), quickens dead sinners, putting into them a new princ…

O lay up carefully the various circumstances about your satisfying comforts, the seasonable incomings thereof, their powerful entrance, and self-discovering, soul-recovering evidence: lay up the gradual progress, or sudden infallings of comfort into your hearts, with the strong…

And thus it marshals the soul's faculties in their proper ranks, and brings it through the present attempt with order and victory, whether the undertaking be of doing duty, or enduring difficulty. 4. The last refreshing stream that supplies the heart with heavenly thoughts, is t…

And now my masters, will you hear all your extravagant discourses, for I have strictly observed and marked what you said, and he told them every bit: So suppose some should present to our ears or eyes a relation of our wild imaginations in one hour's time, what a strange medley…

And he that says there is no God wishes there were none, and if he could help it there should be none. Others blaspheme the attributes of God, that charge the all-seeing eye with blindness, saying, the Lord shall not see (Psalm 94:7), that charge the eternal mind with forgetfuln…

2. For abusing the throne of judgment and civil courts of judicature, to the molestation of the saints. I shall cite but two places (Psalm 94:12): Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law? It is no strange, but yet no small temptation…

Be careful for nothing, but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God, and the peace of God which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ. Psalm 94:19: In the multitude of my thoug…

1. From the quality of those comforts which we receive from the Word of God. 1. It is a divine comfort (Psalm 94:14). In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

So elsewhere, (Psalm 9:16) The Lord is known by the judgments which he executes: by some eminent instances God shows himself to be the Judge of the world, and keeps a petty sessions, before the day of general assizes. Upon this account the saints beg the Lord to take off the vei…

Afflictions and troubles stir up a multitude of thoughts in us. (Psalm 94:19) In the multitude of my thoughts. Sometimes self-oppressing thoughts, carking thoughts, envious thoughts, and repining at God's providence; the object of our trouble is ever before us.

3. DOCT. Though the soul be in a fainting condition, yet it will accept of nothing but God's salvation, [Your] salvation. (Psalm 94:18) "When I said, My foot slips: your mercy, O Lord, held me up." And verse 19: "In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight m…

Surely when the heart is drawn after him, he is not wholly gone. We often mistake God's dispensations, when he is preparing for us more ample relief, and emptying us of all carnal dependence, we judge that that's a forsaking; as Psalm 94:18 — When I said, My foot slips, your mer…

2. Against affliction. So God is said to comfort those that are cast down (2 Corinthians 7:6), and Psalm 94:19. "In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul." 2 Corinthians 1:3-4. "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father…

2 Sin has depraved man's understanding, and made him a fool, a sot, a very brute; ignorant, foolish, and beast, are joined together (Psalm 73:22). Folly is the common name of sin, and so is fools of sinners in the Scripture (Psalm 94:8). O you fools, when will you be wise, that…

For since here we must learn to chase out and keep out such imaginations, by setting up the light of the truth in our minds and listening wholly to it. So the psalmist shows the cause, and applies the cure (Psalm 94:8): Understand, you brutish among the people, and you fools whe…

Xerxes offered great rewards to him that could find out a new pleasure. But the comforts of the Spirit are satisfying; they refresh the heart (Psalm 94:19): Your comforts delight my soul. There is as much difference between heavenly comforts and earthly as between a banquet that…

The Scripture forbids revenge (Romans 12:19): Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves. This is to take God's office out of his hand, who is called the God of recompenses (Jeremiah 51:56) and the God of vengeance (Psalm 94:1). This I urge against those who challenge one another to…

Let the condition of the righteous be never so sad, yet it is blessed. He is blessed in affliction: Psalm 94, Blessed is he whom you chasten. Blessed in poverty: James 2:5, Poor in the world, rich in faith.

It is a kingdom wherein dwells righteousness (2 Peter 3:13). In this lower region of the world, there is little righteousness, they set up wickedness by a law (Psalm 94:20), and the wicked devours his neighbor, which is more righteous than he (Habakkuk 1:13). Homo homini lupus.

That is the blessed man indeed, who can with the Prophet then look on them, and triumph over them. This indeed is a dark parable, as he calls it, few can skill of it, as Psalms 94:3, 4. I will open my dark saying upon the harp; wherefore should I feare in the day of evil, when t…

4. The believers are blessed through Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:10, 13; Psalm 32:1-2; Romans 4:6; Psalm 2:12; Psalm 119:1). Their afflictions and death are blessed, precious in the eyes of the Lord, not qualified with any law-curse (Job 5:17; Psalm 94:12; Matthew 5:6; Luke 6:22;…

5. It necessarily must follow, if it be sin to eat, because the non-converted have no spiritual right in Christ, to bread, the converted may spoil by their grounds, all the non-converted, of their goods, houses, gold, gardens, vineyards, lands, and upon the same ground, for the…

2 A godly man knows that secret sins are in some sense worse than others: they discover more guile and Atheism; The Curtain-sinner makes himself believe God does not see, Ezekiel 8:12. Son of man, hast thou seen what the Ancients of the house of Israel have done in the dark; for…

3. A godly man loves the consolatory part of the Word, the Promises; he goes feeding upon these, as Samson went on his way eating the honey-comb, Judges 14. 8. The Promises are all marrow and sweetness; they are our Bezoar-stone when we are fainting; they are the conduits of the…

When our eyes are more opened, and we are not only chastened, but taught. Psalm 94:12. Wormwood is bitter to the taste, but is good to clear the eyesight; then our spiritual eyesight is cleared,

When we have been falling, has not God taken us by the hand? When I said my foot slippeth, thy goodness, O Lord, held me up, Psalm 94.18. How often has God held our head and heart when we have been fainting?

16. The scripture, so far from declaring those who suffer chastisement and disciplinary pains, accursed, merely on that account, expressly declares them blessed. (Psalm 94:12) "Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O Lord, and teach him out of your law; that you may give him rest…