Psalms 1

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM I.—How dangerous is the company of wicked men, and how headlong the progress of sin! They who walk in the counsel of sinners will quickly wait for opportunities of sinning, and will with pleasure accompany with scorners. But precious and useful are the oracles of God, as means to preserve us from temptation, and to animate us to every good word and rock. And it is the heavenly-minded and thoughtful Christian that will be the thriving one. It is absurd for saints to study conformity to this world, when God has marked such a difference, such an opposition, between them and the men of it. And when their end answers so exactly to their life, and to the glory of the divine perfections. May God’s company, God’s word, God’s influences, God’s approbation, and God’s final judgment, and the eternity consequent thereon, be ever dear to my heart! from the dead, and the new covenant made with him, are their everlasting foundation. His intercession, and the saving power of his Spirit, subdue them to himself. But dreadful is the vengeance executed on his Jewish, heathen, anti-briscan, or other opposers! And if the great are not good they shall receive the deeper damnation. O how mixed is the service of Christ on earth! Whilst we rejoice in him and his fulness, we need to trouble on account of our own guilt and corruption, and the states and dangers that attend us. But holy jealousy and filial fear produce joys unspeakable and full of glory. While the world contains him, and not in wantonness, let my soul kiss, receive, love, adore, and submit to, God’s Son; so shall I be blessed in him with all spiritual blessings in time and eternity