?EXPOSITION Verse 92. Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. That word which has preserved the heavens a...
Chapter?26The narrative of the death and sufferings of Christ is more particularly and fully recorded by all the four evangelists than any part of his...
Chapter?12The foregoing chapter gave us the account of David?s sin; this gives us the account of his repentance. Though he fell, he was not utterly ca...
Homily IHomily I Preface.[1.] They that are spectators of the heathen games, when they have learned that a distinguished athlete and winner of crowns ...
Chapter?31This chapter goes on with the good words and comfortable words which we had in the chapter before, for the encouragement of the captives, as...
?EXPOSITION Verse 66. Teach me good judgment and knowledge. Again he begs for teaching, as in verse 64, and again he uses God's mercy as an argument. ...
CHAPTER 20. OF PRAYER--A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT. The principal divisions of this chapter are,--I. Connection...
Chapter?5This chapter, and the two that follow it, are a sermon; a famous sermon; the sermon upon the mount. It is the longest and fullest continued d...
Chapter?5In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s gracious acceptance of the invitation which his church had given him, and the kind visit which he made t...
Chapter?14The former chapter directed the priests how to convict a leper of ceremonial uncleanness. No prescriptions are given for his cure; but, when...
Chapter?13 Verse 1 Among the children of the same parents it is no new thing for some to be hopeful and others the contrary; now here we are taught to...
Chapter?4The penman of this chapter is Nebuchadnezzar himself: the story here recorded concerning him is given us in his own words, as he himself drew...
Chapter?14This chapter gives us an account of that fatal quarrel between God and Israel upon which, for their murmuring and unbelief, he swore in his ...
Chapter?95For the expounding of this psalm we may borrow a great deal of light from the apostle?s discourse, Heb.?3, and 4, where it appears both to ...
Chapter?27In this chapter we return to the typical story of the struggle between Esau and Jacob. Esau had profanely sold the birthright to Jacob; but ...
Chapter?81This psalm was penned, as is supposed, not upon occasion of any particular providence, but for the solemnity of a particular ordinance, eit...
Chapter?89Many psalms that begin with complaint and prayer end with joy and praise, but this begins with joy and praise and ends with sad complaints a...
Chapter?16 Verse 1 As we read this, it teaches us a great truth, that we are not sufficient of ourselves to think or speak any thing of ourselves tha...
Chapter?22This chapter is a continuation of Christ?s discourses in the temple, two or three days before he died. His discourses then are largely recor...
CHAPTER IV. THE WORKS OF GOD; OR THE EXECUTION OF THE DECREES. SECTION I.?CREATION. I. Definition Op Creation. By creation we mean that free act ...