"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

"But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared." -Psalm 130:4 [KJV] My soul, this is a golden psalm, and every portion of it more ponderous in value than the choicest gold of Ophir; and this verse is as the tried gold, to ascertain the purity and value of all the rest. The cries of a truly broken heart, from the depth of sin to the depth of divine mercy, with which the psalm opens, prove the work of the Holy Ghost, imparting the words with which the humbled soul comes before the Lord. And the blessed consolations which this verse contains, in the view of the mercy-seat, and the mercy there (which is all-precious Jesus, the first-born in the womb of mercy; yea, mercy itself) as plainly prove the leadings of the Holy Ghost to Gim, who alone can say, "Oh Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in Me is thy help!" Ponder, my soul, these precious words: "But there is forgiveness with Thee." Is it not as if thou wert to say to thy God and Fat...

"And they that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee." - Psalm 9:10 [KJV] There is a knowing of God's name. By the "name of God" are to be understood the revealed perfections of the Almighty—all that He has revealed concerning Himself in the Scriptures of truth. Every attribute, every perfection, everything that God has said of Himself, is summed up in the "name of God."   But especially does the "name of God" signify the Son of His love, Who is "the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His Person;" as He said to Moses, "Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of Him and obey His voice, provoke Him not; for He will not pardon your transgressions: for  My name is in Him;"   that is, all My revealed perfections, all My glorious character, all My divine attributes are in Him; for "in Him dwelleth all the fulness of ...