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

"Yet have I set My King upon My holy hill of Zion.  I will declare the decree." -Psalm 2:6, 7 [KJV]   Here is a subject, my soul, opened for thy meditation, which neither the evening nor day of thy whole life, no, nor eternity itself, will ever be long enough to exhaust. Some of the outlines may be gathered here below, when God the Holy Ghost condescends to teach; but the subject itself will, no doubt, be among the glorious employments of heaven. It should seem, that the divine speakers here are God the Father and God the Son. We find similar instances in the word of God (see Isaiah ch. 6 & ch. 49, John 12:27-28.) And the beloved apostle was led into an apprehension of the same subject, for the church's instruction, in that vision he saw, (Revelation 5:1-9.) In this vision, Jesus is represented as taking the book, and opening it, and declaring the contents of it.   Hence, therefore, when God the Father saith, as in this Psalm, "I have set My King u...

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure." -Philippians 2:13 [KJV]   When God has worked in a man "to will," and not only worked in him "to will," but also worked in him "to do;" when He has made him willing to flee from the wrath to come; willing to be saved by the atoning blood and justifying righteousness of Jesus; willing to be saved by sovereign grace as a sinner undone without hope, and glad to be saved in whatever way God is pleased to save him; willing to pass through the fire, to undergo affliction, and to walk in the strait and narrow path, willing to take up the cross and follow Jesus, willing to bear all the troubles which may come upon him, and all the slanders which may be heaped upon his name; when God has made him willing to be nothing, and to have nothing but as God makes him the one, and gives him the other: and besides working in him "to will," has worked in him "...