Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Volume 5)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...devil remaineth to persecute the Body of Christ, and one Judas succeedeth another. There lacketh not then of whom the Body too may say, For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath humbled my life on the earth. He hath humbled, saith he, my life on the earth. In Ps. 67. another place it is said, They bowed down my soul. For what doth each one who perseculeth us endeavour save to make us abandon our heavenly hope, and savour of the earth, yield to our persecutor, and love earthly things? They indeed, as far as in them lies, do this: yet let not this Col. 3, befall us to whom it is said, If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not those which are on earth, for ye are dead. For in God's sight every one living shall not be justified. They then, either openly raging, or secretly laying snares, endeavour to bring our life to the earth. Against them let us Phil. 3, watch; that we may be able to say, Our conversation is in '' heaven. The enemy, saith he, hath humbled my life upon earth. 8. They have laid me in dark places, as the dead of the world. This ye hear more readily from the Head; this ye perceive more readily in the Head. For He died indeed for us, yet was He not one of the dead of the world. For who are the dead of the world? And how was not He one of the dead of the world? The dead of the world are those who have died of their own desert, receiving the reward of iniquity, deriving death from the sin transmissed to them; Ps.5i,5. according as it is said, For I was conceived in iniquity, and in sin did my mother cherish me in her womb. But He came by a Virgin, taking to Him Flesh pure itself, purifying others. But they who thought Him a sin...