Psalms 57

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM LVII.—While saints continue on earth, they will still need prayer from their heart, and mercy from their God. For into what devouring beasts, and deceitful devils, hath sin transformed their enemies! Heart, lips, and hands, appear all animated by infernal malice and craft. But they have a God of salvation, a new covenant in Jesus’ blood, to secure their safety and their enemies’ ruin. And often, for the glory of God, these enemies perish in the snares which they had laid for others. With what fixed thought, wonder, desire, and delight, with what ardour of inward powers, ought we then to praise and glorify God, for the mercy that made and fulfils, and the faithfulness which establishes, every new covenant promise! And with great fervour ought we to desire our Almighty Lord to glorify himself in heaven above and in all the earth below