This Psalm as the whole book of the Canticles is to be taken and altogether to be understood in a spiritual sense: and therefore there is no appearance or show of reason to take it as some have done, for a marriage song of Solomon and Pharaoh’s daughter. For besides, that the title which is in Hebrew over many of the Psalms would have made some mention touching this point, we see how this marriage is condemned, and that worthily by the Holy Ghost, 1. Kings. 11. So far it is f

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth. JOHN 4. 23, 24. In this chapter you have an holy conference between Christ and a Samaritan woman, who at first entertains his discourse with scoffs, but afterwards began to be more seriously affected; and upon the occasion of his strange discovery of

The Lord's Supper is appointed as a sealing ordinance between Christ and you. The covenants are made, the terms agreed to on both sides; God is willing to be yours to all intents and purposes; your shield and exceeding great reward, your refuge and your rest, your God, and your guide. While Christ has it you shall never want; and what God is to him, that he (in your order) will be to you. You again (through grace) are willing to be his: his in his own way, and on his own ter

For the unconverted, there are these six questions which I would advise them daily to put to their souls. Question I. What estate did my soul come into the world in? Was it not in a state of death, (And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins, Eph. 2. 1), an estate of wrath? (and were by nature the children of wrath ,Eph 2:3). Sirs, awake and think where you are, and where you are going. While you are in your natural unconverted unbelieving state, all your

Intro Counsel I. That you put effort to get by hazardous opportunities that which is worth all your cost. What pity is it that you should risk much and yet gain but little? How sad would it be if you should at last suffer deeply for your conscientious attendance upon God in such seasons, and when you come into a prison or into banishment, should find that you had not got that by them that would carry you out. Counsel II. That you value mercy not as it serves to your flesh; bu

A Sermon preached at the commencement at Cambridge, on Sunday the 2nd day of July, 1699 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. Psalm 119:142 It is not to be doubted that the subject of this Psalm is the Moral Law, or the precepts of just and righteous living, which are contained in the Ten Commandments, and which we find interspersed in Moses's Writings, especially in the Book of Deuteronomy. The royal prophet directing here his words to

Concerning the Lord’s Day. Let it always be remembered before it comes, to prepare for it; and when it is come, to keep it holy. It has been honoured 1. by God the Father, forming thereupon the elements of the world, 2. by God the Son, rising from the dead, and appearing several times after his resurrection, 3. by God the Holy Ghost descending with his miraculous gifts and graces upon the Apostles and others, 4. by the Christian Church making it the time of her solemn assembl

In the Third Chapter, Book One of his Treatise on Justification Bishop Downame sets out and expounds the efficient causes of justification. For ease of reference we have set out below Downame's definition of justification, which he refers to through this chapter in his exposition. "Justification is a most gracious and righteous action of God, whereby he imputing the righteousness of Christ to a believing sinner, absolves him from his sins, and accepts of him as righteous in C

This ensuing treatise, as it clears the doctrine of the Gospel in that high point concerning our title to the Kingdom of Heaven: so it helps to discover the apostasy of the now Church of Rome from the faith. For though the Papists do vaunt that their Church, meaning especially the See of Rome, is so far from falling away from the faith, that it cannot fall into errors in matters of faith: yet they cannot deny, but that in the latter times, and namely in the time of Antichrist

Introduction Among all the articles of Christian religion there is none, as I suppose, either more necessary to be known, or more comfortable to be believed, than the doctrine of justification: whereby a faithful man is taught to believe and know, that he being a sinner in himself, and by sin obnoxious to eternal damnation; is by the mercies of God, and merits of Christ through faith, not only freed from the guilt of his sins and from everlasting damnation, but also accepted