A
Study of Psalm Thirty Four
Verse
Nine
Brethren:
Herein
above we read a verse that ties in with the preceding one of
yesterday, and will likewise tie in with the following verse
tomorrow.
“Leave
them to God above; Him serve and fear” – John Milton
“Who
are sanctified by his Spirit, and so are openly and manifestly his;
these are exhorted to fear the Lord with reverence and godly fear;
and great reason there is why they should fear him, since he is King
of saints, and fear is due to him from them; and seeing they have
received many instances of grace and goodness from him, and therefore
should fear him for his goodness's sake; and besides they, and they
only, know him, and have the grace of fear in them, and so only can
exercise it on him.
[There
is], so much goodness [that] is laid up for them; the heart of God is
towards them, his secret is with them, his eye is upon them, and the
sun of righteousness arises on them; and both grace and glory are
given to them; nor in temporals, since godliness, or the fear of God,
has the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come.”
- John Gill
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