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…

(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…

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…

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.

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…