Daily Scripture Readings; In Two Volumes Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...power and supremacy over all nations. PsALM LxxxIII.--If Assur here be the tribe of Asher, which is not unlikely, from the rebellious character of that tribe, this psalm may have been composed by David about the time of his acending the throne of all Israel, and when many confederates were opposed to him. He prays here for protection against these. He was beset with the craft and force of a great multitude of enemies, who are here enumerated as bent on the destruction of Israel, and the extirpation of its name from the earth. Asher, on the confines of Tyre, may have entered into the same combination; in which, we have no doubt, that the old and still subsisting enmity of the world to the Church had a large share. Israel must not only have been a singularity, but an ofience and an eye-sore amongst the surrounding nations. The psalmist prays that they might waver, and be unsettled as a wheel, or light as stubble which the wind carrieth away.... The preservation of the name and worship of the true God in the world is often pled in argument and prayer for the protection of Israel against the heathen, who beset them on every side. PsaLM Lxxxrv.--What a preciously evangelical psalm this is, full of savour and substance, and in full unison with the faith and spirit of an advanced Christianity We have here the longings of a gracious soul after God, and its consequent delight in every sensible approach to Him; and so dear to the taste of such are His tabernacles and holy service%such is his affection for the very localities of God's house, that he may be said to regard with envy the swallow which builds its nest near the altars. His strength is in God, and it is upheld and refreshed by ordinances as from a pool; and thus does he meet with cordials...