Psalms 96

Quest. 1. What is it to make God to be a God to us? Resp. 1. To make God to be a God to us, is to acknowledge him for a God: The gods of the heathen are idols (Psalm 96:5), and we know that an idol is nothing (1 Corinthians 8:4), that is, it has nothing of deity in it: If we cry…

Resp. Two ways. 1. By the suffrage of Scripture (Ecclesiastes 11:9, 12:14): For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing (Psalm 96:13). For he comes, for he comes to judge the earth.

Let not men think God's name is hallowed while his Sabbath is broken. 8. We hallow and sanctify God's name when we ascribe the honor of all we do to him (Psalm 96:8): Give to the Lord the glory due to your name. Herod instead of hallowing God's name, stained the honor of his nam…

Yes, his being to judge themselves does augment the terror of all such as these, because this great Savior has been specially and horribly affronted by them, and therefore he has a peculiar design of taking vengeance upon them (2 Thessalonians 1:8), in flaming fire, taking venge…

And likewise Ezekiel 30:13; Leviticus 19:4, eidola [idols]; and Habakkuk 2:18, eidola kopa [idols] and eidola muta [mute idols]. Also Psalm 97:7, glypta [graven images], that is, "carved images"; Isaiah 19:3, theoi [gods] and agalmata [statues] — "gods and images"; Psalm 96:5, d…

(Psalm 111:9) Holy and reverend is his name, and therefore never to be used by us, but in an awful and serious manner. (Psalm 96:4) The Lord is great and greatly to be praised, he is to be feared above all gods. Whether we pray, or whether we praise God, still the heart must be…

For what blasphemy is greater than to match the immortal God, the author of all things, with dunghill gods: truth with lies, glory with ignominy, and hell with heaven? The Lord our God is great, and worthy to be praised, says David: yes, he is to be feared above all gods: for al…

And who would not now say, This Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice, let the multitude of the isles be glad thereof. Why should it not be triumphingly said among the heathen, That the Lord reigns, that the world also shall be established, that it cannot be moved; Let the heavens…

This made them of old rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory, even because they saw and heard the things which kings, wise men and prophets desired to see, and saw them not; God having prepared some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect (He…

For the former, they declare that he was to be the Son of God, God and Man in one Person (Psalm 2:7; Psalm 110:1; Isaiah 9:6, 7; Jeremiah 23:5, 6; Zechariah 2:8, 9, 10), and in sundry other places is the same mystery intimated, whereby the Church was farther instructed how God w…

The Spirit and the Bride say, Come, etc. It's essential to all who have the Spirit, to join in this suit; and the Bride cannot but be supposed to love the last appearing of our Lord Jesus, which will perfect all her desires: And this coming of his, was prophesied of by Enoch, th…

So the second Adam coming to the throne, made a new heaven and a new earth; and as a Midwife to the travailing woman, brings forth the birth, the free sons of God, and carries on the work in bringing the man Christ in the world; for the man Christ is not created and brought in t…

Section 14. The place of old instanced in by Justin Martyr, Psalm 96 verse 10. Where he charges the Jews to have taken out those words [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] from the wood; making the sense, the Lord reigned from the wood, or the Tree, so pointing out the death of Christ on…

Secondly, for the reasons, why God will be so glorified, that he may be sanctified. 1. Because this is the glory that is due to his name; (Psalm 96:8) Give to the Lord the glory due to his name. Every glory will not serve the turn, but such glory as is proper and peculiar for th…

Anselm spent most of his thoughts upon the day of Judgement; and Hierom thought he alwaies heard that Voice sounding in his ears, Surgite mortui, Arise ye dead and come to Judgment. That there shall be such a day is evident, 1. From Gods Veracity: He who is the Oracle of truth h…

Surely if we have the comfort, God should have the glory. (Psalm 96:8) Give to the Lord the glory due to his name, bring an offering, and come into his courts. He that has scattered his seed expects a crop from you.

The like may be said of Paul and Silas, who are recorded (Acts 16:25) to have sung a hymn to God, (for so is the word;) where common understanding would take it for one or more of the hymns of David or Asaph, and not any other new invented spiritual song, unless some hint in the…

1. If by the Commandment of God, and indeed by the light of nature, if all men be bound to pray to God in their distresses (as even Jonah's Mariners will confess in a storm, Jonah 1:6), then all men are likewise bound to sing to the praise of God in their deliverances, and comfo…

Q. 1. If multitudes and people externally covenanted with God, though not internally, whom the Lord calls his people and chosen by him (Deuteronomy 7:6, Deuteronomy 10:15), be the rightly constituted and visible church, as Mr. Thomas Hooker grants, then kingdoms must be his visi…

3. He makes all things new (Revelation 21:5). This Christ mends the broken gold ring which was broken by the first inattentive and rash Heir Adam; so that now heavens, earth, mountains (Isaiah 49:13), sea, trees, fields (Psalm 96:11-13) are commanded to sing a Gospel-Psalm of jo…

This is also prefigured by that continual burnt offering, whereof I spoke before. David exhorts to this saying, "Sing to the Lord, praise his name from day to day" (Psalm 96:2); and promises to perform as much himself, saying, "I will bless you daily, and praise your name foreve…