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A Manual of the Book of Psalms; Or, the Subject-Contents of All the Psalms, Tr. by H. Cole
A Manual of the Book of Psalms Or the SubjectContents of All the Psalms Tr by H Cole Author:Martin Luther General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1837 Original Publisher: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com w... more »here you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE BOOK OF PSALMS. PSALM I. The hajipinfss of ttic godly. -- The unhappines s of the ungodly. BLESSED i. v the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord ; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season : his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so : but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. This first is a Psalm of consolation ; by which the hearts of the godly are encouraged and stirred up to magnify above all things the word of God, in whichthe whole of true life and salvation stands ; and to hear, read, weigh, and meditate on it with a willingness of mind. For this Psalm shows, that those only are truly blessed, prosperous in all things, and enjoy a firm, sure, and eternal consolation both in prosperity and adversity, who are enabled to learn and know, from his word, the will and the works of God. Thus, as a tall palm-tree by the water-side continually grows upwards higher and higher against all the violence of storms, retains its strength against all the weights that man can put upon it, and, by a secret growth, becomes daily more and more flourishing, and brings ...« less