Psalms 11

Psalms 11:3

If the foundations be destroyed, i.e. if all regard to the laws of God, all regard to order and justice, be gone, what safety can the most innocent or virtuous expect!

Psalms 11:6

Snares, fire, and brimstone, &c. signify all the terrible and unavoidable judgments which God executes upon the wicked, in time and eternity; such as he executed upon Saul and his agents

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM XI.—The saints’ sorest temptations come as often from carnal friends as from their inveterate enemies: and often the most upright and blameless meet with the greatest malignity on earth. When wicked rulers have once unhinged the fundamental laws of equity, the greatest virtue often exposes men to the greatest danger. But, while God is in Christ, in the church, and in heaven, they who trust in him need never despair. Nothing escapes his notice, and nothing shall escape, without a due reward. While in his afflicting the righteous he but tries them for their purification and honour, the holiness and equity of his nature demand that his unavoidable judgments should in a terrible manner destroy the wicked