Psalm 12:1
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Verse 1. Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth, etc: --
Verse 1-2,4. Consider our markets, our fairs, our private contracts and bargains, our shops, our cellars, our weights, our measures, our promises, our protestations, our politic tricks and villainous Machiavelism, our enhancing of the prices of all commodities, and tell, whether the twelfth Psalm may not as fitly be applied to our times as to the days of the man of God; in which the feigning, and lying, and facing, and guile, and subtlety of men provoked the psalmist to cry out, Help, Lord; for there is not a godly man left: for the faithful are failed from among the children of men: they speak deceitfully every one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speak with a double heart, which have said, With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own: who is Lord over us? R. Wolcombe, 1612.
HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS
Verse 1. Help, Lord.
Verse 1. First two clauses. Text for funeral of an eminent believer.
Verse 1. Whole verse.
Verse 1. Intimate connection between yielding honour to God and honesty to man, since they decline together.
WORKS WRITTEN ABOUT THE TWELFTH PSALM IN SPURGEON'S DAY
In "A Godly Meditation upon 20 select Psalms ... By Sir ANTHONY COPE, Knight, 1547," a thin black letter 4to., is an Exposition, or rather Meditation, on this Psalm. Reprinted 1848.