Psalms 120

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM CXX.—Inveterate malice against the saints never refuses the basest means of venting itself: and it is the saints’ ordinary lot to be virulently reproached by the wicked. But dreadful, penetrating, destructive, furious, and lasting, is the ruin of their reproachers at last! It is grievous for the lovers of God to be long removed from public ordinances, or to be forced by necessity into continued connections with the wicked. But every one born of God ought to be a child of peace. Envy and strife are all from hell. And, though others continue inveterate, we ought to abound in charity, and follow the things which make for peace