Psalms 99

For the situation and posture of it; some suppose that it was held in the hands of the Cherubims at a good distance from the Ark: and the reason they give for this conjecture is, that so it did best represent a throne. The mercy-seat was as the seat of it, and the Ark as the foo…

For the visible pledge of God's presence and his worship. God's throne, as we have showed, was represented by the ark, mercy-seat, and cherubims, in the most holy place; whereon the sanctuary itself was his footstool (1 Chronicles 28:2; Psalm 99:5; Psalm 132:7). So it is applied…

The Papists defend their opinion by these reasons. Psalm 99:5: Cast yourselves down before his footstool. Answer: The words are thus to be read: Bow at his footstool, that is, at the ark and mercy seat, for there he has made a promise of his presence.

What a door would be opened by it for all sin in the wicked, and despair in the godly? It is as great a matter of joy to the godly, that God reigns, as it is of terror to the wicked (Psalm 97:1): The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice (Psalm 99:1): The Lord reigns, let the peopl…

And let them take heed who are under this frame: for although God may deliver them, yet it will be by terrible things; as (Psalm 65:5). Such terrible things as wherein he will take vengeance of their inventions (Psalm 99:8), though he do forgive them. So David affirms of himself…

Then again, sins of youth long ago pardoned, though sometimes dearly beloved, are like the ghost of a dear friend some years ago dead and buried, that re-appears to a man, as dead Samuel did to Saul; look how loving and dear they were alive, they are now as terrible and dreadful…

5. Mortify therefore your members, that are on earth, fornication, uncleanness, etc. Beza, Piscator, and others think it probable that Christ uttered this prayer to his Father, in the Syriac tongue, because the Evangelist uses the word [illegible], to be lifted up from the earth…

You shall see how in the very act of prayer God has, (1.) averted judgments, (2.) bestowed mercies and favors. 1. He has put a stop to judgments (Psalm 99:6-8). Moses and Aaron among the priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name.

There is nothing but his feet then, that is to say, his lowest and meanest part: thereby teaching us, to aspire up to heaven, and not to rest fixed in these external signs, which instruct us according to our slender capacity. According to which, it is said in (Psalm 99:5). Worsh…

O sing unto the Lord a new Song, for he hath done marvellous Things; his right Hand and his HOLY Arm hath gotten him the Victory. So when they praise him for his Justice and terrible Majesty; Psalm 99. 2, 3. The Lord is great in Zion, and he is high above all People: Let them pr…

They shall not have all honey, nor all gall: all judgment, lest they be broken, nor all mercy lest they be proud. You answered them O Lord our God, you were a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance of their inventions (Psalm 99:8). Here is a Song upon Sigionoth.

The same persons were both assistentes and ministrantes, they stood to minister before the Lord. Now because of this standing and ministering of angels, that is their waiting on God in a readiness to do his will, they may be said in some sense to be the throne of God, from where…

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…

Though judgment be now his strange work in comparison, (and seems not so proper to this day of patience, as to that of a wrath which is to come) yet God does often make examples; and though he make not (as yet) a full end of all nations, he leaves none altogether unpunished. 2 G…

If men worship a false God, their sorrows shall be multiplied; or if they worship the true God in false ways, by means which he never appointed, and which never came into his heart, that's a sin that procures great wrath. If men shall add to what the Lord has commanded, and so c…

Then said he to them, Matthew, be like Matthew the tax collector, not in vice, but in virtue (Matthew 10:3). Samuel, said he, be like Samuel the prophet, a man of faith and prayer (Psalm 99:6). Joseph, said he, be like Joseph in Potiphar's house, chaste, and one that flees from…

All this power which I have described, or rather, which is so great that I cannot describe it, is engaged against sinners; His power and his wrath is against all that forsake him (Ezra 8:22). And who knows what those words signify (Psalm 99:11): Who knows the power of your anger…