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

"A seed shall serve Him; it shall be accounted to the L ORD for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare His righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that He hath done this." -Psalm 22:30-31 [KJV] It is precious, yea, truly blessed also, to discover the happy correspondence subsisting between the several parts of scripture, in their testimony concerning the features of God's people. Jehovah, in His threefold character of person, is always found as engaged in it; and each One in the holy and undivided Three gives assurance to it. "I will pour My Spirit, (saith God the Father speaking to the person of His dear Son, as the Israel of His people) upon thy seed, and My blessing upon thine offspring," Isaiah 44:3 . "A seed, (saith Christ, or, as it might be rendered, and indeed is rendered in the version of the psalms read in the churches, My seed) shall serve Him."   This is the very seed which the Lord hath blessed, and which all that s...

"The secret of the L ORD is with them that fear Him; and He will shew them His covenant."   - Psalm 25:14 [KJV] "The secret of the Lord" (that is,  present  possession)  "is  with them that fear Him; and He  will  shew them" (that is, something  future ) "His covenant." This shews, that while all the people of God, who fear His name, have the secret with them, that is, a measure of the secret, yet all the people of God have not the covenant revealed to them at the same time with the secret. The "secret" is in the present tense; the "shewing of the covenant" is in the future.   It is very sweet to see how the Holy Ghost has discriminated between these blessings. If, for instance, it had run thus, "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him, and He shews to them His covenant," some doubting, desponding child of God might say, "How can I be one of those that fear God? for it says, God shews to them Hi...