The Treasury of David (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1883. Excerpt: ... way or other, cause them to mend their pace, to grow more active and fervent in his service and worship. 3. Re.corare ores: the sheep sometimes are 'pettelante divagantes, idly and inconsiderately straying from the flock, grazing alone, and wandering after other pastures, not considering the dangers which attend them by such a separation and wandeiing; and, therefore, the shepherd doth with his rod strike and fetch them in again, and so preserve them. In this sense also David might well say, " Thy rod doth comfort me, '" for it is a great comfort that the Lord will not leave his sheep to the ways DEGREESif discomfort, but urings them off from sinful enings and wanderings, which always do expose them to their greatest dangers and troubles. So that the words do intimate a singular part of God's gubernation or careful providence of his fiock. -- Obaditth Sedgwick. Verse 4.--" Rod and staff.' The shepherd invariably carries a staff oi rod with him when he goes forth to feed his flock. It is often bent or hooked at one end, which gave rise to the shepherd's crook in the hand of the Christian bishop. 'With this staff he rules and guides the flock to their green pastures, and defends them from their enemies. With it also he corrects them when disobedient, and brings them back when wandering. This staff is associated as inseparably with the shepherd ns the goad is with the ploughman.-- TV. 11. Thomson. Verse A.--The psalmist will trust, even though all be unknown. We find him doing this in Psalm xxiii. 4: " Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.' Here, surely, there is trust the most complete. We dread the unknown far above anything that we can see; a littla noise in the dark will terrify, when even great dangers which are visible do not affright: the u...