Posts from September 2015

Posts from September 2015

Doctrinal and Practical Remarks on Psalm 141 – Wm. Plumer

Doctrinal and Practical Remarks on Psalm 141:1-10 1. When evil men beset and harass the pious, their resort is a throne of grace, v. 1. The greater their distress, the louder are their cries. All human aid withdrawn, they look to God alone, nor are they disappointed. 2. In the eyes of God’s real people prayer is not an end, but a means; nor can they ever rest satisfied with the service, while they have no evidence of acceptance, v. 2.…

Doctrinal and Practical Remarks on Psalm 140 – Wm. Plumer

Doctrinal and Practical Remarks on Psalm 140:1-13 1. This Psalm, like many others, shows that the best men are often brought into great perils by the wicked; so that none but God can deliver or preserve them, v. 1. 2. The wicked continually prove that their hatred is deadly, vv. 2, 3. The evidence is as clear as day. The facts are countless and indisputable. 3. The arts of falsehood, slander and abuse are as old as sin in the…

Doctrinal and Practical Remarks on Psalm 139 – Wm. Plumer

Doctrinal and Practical Remarks on Psalm 139:1-24 1. There is no better shape, in which to mould our highest views in theology, than that of devotion, a psalm, a prayer, as this poem shows. Henry: “Divine truths look full as well when they are prayed over, as when they are preached over: and much better than when they are disputed over.” 2. If, as some think, this Psalm was written, when David’s good name was through calumnies under a cloud,…

Doctrinal and Practical Remarks on Psalm 138 – Wm. Plumer

William S. Plumer’s Doctrinal and Practical Remarks on Psalm 138:1-8 1. Nothing can release us from the obligation to utter the praises of God for all his benefits; and no good man wishes it were otherwise, v. 1. 2. In all acts of worship, in praise particularly, the heart is called for. Reluctance in this service obviously spoils it all, v. 1. Holy mirth as well befits the grateful, as holy sorrow, the penitent. 3. Whoever would worship God aright…