INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 63
"In all our addresses to God we must eye him as God, & our God, & this will be our comfort in a wilderness state." "We must seek him; we must covet his favours our chief good & consult his glory as our highest end; we must seek acquaintance with him by his word & seek mercy from him by prayer." "Gracious souls look down upon the world with a holy disdain & look up to God with a holy desire." "Those that have their hearts refreshed with the tokens of God's favour ought to have them enlarged in his praises." "Praising God must be the work of our whole lives" "We must every day give thanks to him for the benefits with which we are daily loaded." "...when we lift up the hands that hang down, in comfort & joy, it must be in God's name; from him our comforts must be fetched, & to him they must be devoted." "We must praise God with joyful lips" "It is our duty to rejoice in the shadow of God's wings" "To press hard after God is to follow him closely" "It is he that strengthens us in the pursuit of him, quickens our good affections, & comforts us while we have not yet attained what we are in the pursuit of." "He resolves to make God the Alpha & Omega of all his joys. He shall rejoice in God." CHAPTER 64 "He earnestly begs of God to preserve him." "They please themselves with an atheistical conceit that God himself takes no notice of their wicked practices... A practical disbelief of God's omniscience is at the bottom of all the wickedness of the wicked." "They are masters of all the arts of mischief & destruction, for the inward thought of every one of them, & the heart, are deep, deep as hell, desperately wicked, who can know it?" "...God's arrows will hit surer, & fly swifter, & pierce deeper, than theirs do or can." "Many have cut their own throats, & many more have damned their own souls, with their tongues, & it will be an aggravation of their condemnation." "God's doing is well worth our considering (Eccl. 7:13), but it must be considered wisely, that we put not a corrupt gloss upon a pure text." "All the upright in heart, that keep a good conscience & approve themselves to God, shall glory, not in themselves, but in the favour of God, in his righteousness & goodness, their relation to him & interest in him. Let him that glories glory in the Lord." CHAPTER 65 "When God is coming towards us with his favours we must go forth to meet him with our praises, & wait till the day dawn." "When we stand ready in every thing to give thanks, then praise waits for God." "To him let us come, & come boldly, because he is a God that hears prayer." "The greater our danger is by reason of sin the more cause we have to admire the power & riches of God's pardoning mercy, which can invalidate the threatening force of our manifold transgressions & our mighty sins." "Those that come into communion with God shall certainly find true happiness & full satisfaction in their communion." "There is abundance of goodness in his house, righteousness, grace & all the comforts of the everlasting covenant; there is enough for all, enough for each; it is ready, always ready; & all on free cost, without money & without price." "We are to look upon our daily worship, alone & with our families, to be both the most needful of our daily occupations & the most delightful of our daily comforts; &, if therein we keep up our communion with God, the outgoings both of the morning & of the evening are thereby made truly to rejoice." "All God's blessings, even spiritual ones, are expressed by his raining righteousness upon us." "Our hearts are dry & barren unless God himself be as the dew to us & water us; & the plants of his own planting he will water & make them to increase." "Let all these common gifts of the divine bounty, which we yearly & daily partake of, increase our love to God as the best of beings, & engage us to glorify him with our bodies, which he thus provides so well for." CHAPTER 66 "Holy joy is that devout affection which should animate all our praises" "We must be hearty & zealous & must do what we do with all our might, with all that is within us." "That which is the honour of God's name ought to be the matter of our praise." "Let not those that are in rebellion against God exalt themselves as if there were any probability that they should gain their point." "We must own that it is the good providence of God that keeps life & soul together & his visitation that preserves our spirit." "Whatever the troubles of the saints are, blessed be God, there is a way through them." "We should take all occasions to tell one another of the great & kind things which God has done for us, especially which he has done for our souls, the spiritual blessings with which he has blessed us in heavenly things; these we should be most affected with ourselves, & therefore with these we should be desirous to affect others." "Iniquity, regarded in the heart, will certainly spoil the comfort & success of prayer; for the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord." "God has heard me, & therefore blessed be God." "What we win by prayer we must wear with praise. Mercies in answer to prayer do, in a special manner, oblige us to be thankful." "...God does not turn away our prayer, because he does not turn away his own mercy, for that is the foundation of our hopes & the fountain of our comforts, & therefore ought to be the matter of our praises." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Job To Song Of Solomon, Mac Donald, pgs. 468 - 482.
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September 2023
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