He will lead us to a life in which there shall be no more death. He will so guide us, as to set us above the reach of death, so that it shall not do us any real hurt. If he is our God, he will lead and keep us even to the last. This God, who has now done such great things for us, is unchangeable in his love to us, and his care for us. See what precious ordinances are its palaces, what precious promises are its bulwarks, that you may be encouraged to join yourselves to it: and tell this to others. Consider its strength see it founded on Christ the Rock, fortified by the Divine power, guarded by Him who neither slumbers nor sleeps. English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Let us observe the beauty, strength, and safety of the church. Psalm 1:1 The singular Hebrew word for man (ish) is used here to portray a representative example of a godly person see Preface. 2 For I said, 'Steadfast love will be built up forever in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness. Let all the members of the church take comfort from what the Lord does for his church. 1 I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. Let us give to God the glory of the great things he has done for us. 1 O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old: 2 you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free 3 for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but. All the streams of mercy that flow down to us, must be traced to the fountain of His loving-kindness. Let our minds be filled with good thoughts of God. Let our hope of the stability of the church be encouraged. Let our faith in the word of God be hereby confirmed. Verses 8-14 We have here the improvement which the people of God are to make of his glorious and gracious appearances for them. Both are by the mighty power of the Lord. Nothing in nature can more fitly represent the overthrow of heathenism by the Spirit of the gospel, than the wreck of a fleet in a storm. The kings of the earth were afraid of it. 5 The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil they sank into. 4 Glorious are you, more majestic than the mountains of prey. 3 There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. 2 His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion. The earth is, by sin, covered with deformity, therefore justly might that spot of ground, which was beautified with holiness, be called the joy of the whole earth that which the whole earth has reason to rejoice in, that God would thus in very deed dwell with man upon the earth. 1 In Judah God is known his name is great in Israel. The clearer discoveries are made to us of the Lord and his greatness, the more it is expected that we should abound in his praises. Happy the kingdom, the city, the family, the heart, in which God is great, in which he is all. Verses 1-7 Jerusalem is the city of our God: none on earth render him due honour except the citizens of the spiritual Jerusalem.
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