Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 332
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1--28.--The grievous conflict of the flesh and the Spirit, and the glorious conquest of the Spirit at the last. I. The Reginning Of The Psalm. In this he ingeniously vointeth at those rocks against which he was like to have split his soul. II. The Middle Of The Psalm. In this he candidly confesseth his ignorance and folly to have been the chiefest foundation of his fault. III. The End Of The Psalm. In this he gratefully kisseth that hand which led him -out of the labyrinth. Such is the clear and accurate summing up of the contents of this psalm by an old Puritan divine. Should any of us, unhappily, find our own portraiture in the conduct told of at the beginning, may it not be long ere the middle and the end of the psalm portray us equally well!--S. C. Vers. 1--28.--Asaph's trial and deliverance. Asaph was greatly tempted, as this psalm plainly shows. It does not matter whether he speaks of himself or, as is likely, of some other servant of God. Consider-- I. His Temptation. 1. It was a very terrible one. (See ver. 2, "My feet were almost gone," etc.) How honest the Bible is! It tells the whole truth about men, and good men, too. It. shows them tempted, and all but overcome. 2. It arose from his seeing " the prosperity of the wicked." A sight, to Old Testament saints, very hard to bear. For they had not our knowledge of the life eternal. Ver. 24 is no disproof of this statement. For had it meant, as we so commonly take it to mean, the being received to the future " glory " of God's redeemed in heaven, how was it that so large a portion of the Jews in our Lord's time did not believe in any future life at all, and that our Lord had to turn to the (to us) apparently irrelevant declaration, " I am the God...