Psalms 94

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM XCIV.—Saints must always expect manifold injuries and oppressions in this world. But never must they usurp God’s prerogative in avenging themselves, but patiently endure, and wait for the day when he that judges righteously should arise to punish their adversaries. When men are abandoned by God to themselves, how their heart, hands, and tongue, concur in abusing him and his people! Astonishing is their atheism and stupidity! They sink even below common sense. But God makes the correction of his people to issue in their instruction, and in their spiritual or eternal rest and safety, while their wicked enemies are ruined. In due time he will rectify all seeming disorders; and the righteousness of his judgments shall be made clearly manifest, to the encouragement of the upright to follow him, and to praise him for his providences. And thrice happy are they who have treasured up manifold experiences of God’s support, comfort, and deliverance, in their times of extreme distress! It will encourage them to expect the proper, seasonable, and righteous, ruin of all the enemies of the church, whether wicked courts in Israel, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syrogracians, obstinate Jews, Romish Heathens, Antichristians, or others. 11