2008-07-07

Adams on Psalm 94:19

19 Thy comforts Troubles may be of our own begetting; but true comforts come only from that infinite fountain, the God of consolation; for so he hath styled himself.
Because the malignant host is first entered into the ground of my text, consider with me:
1. The rebels, or mutineers, "thoughts."
2. The number of them, no less than a "multitude."
3. The captain whose colours they bear; a disquieted mind; "my thoughts."
4. The field where the battle is fought; in the heart; apud me, "within me."
In the other army we find,
1. Quanta, how puissant they are; comforts.
2. Quota, how many they are; indefinitely set down; abundant comfort.
3. Cujus, whose they are; the Lord's, he is their general; thy comforts.
4. Quid operantur, what they do; they delight the soul. In the nature of them being comforts, there is tranquillity; in the number of them, being many comforts, there is sufficiency; in the owner of them, being thy comforts, there is omnipotence; and in the effect of them, delighting the soul, there is security.
As quoted in Spurgeon's Treasury of David.

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