For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up,
The whole Church finds cause to rejoice when she reflects that the world is governed by God's will alone and that she herself is sustained by His grace and power. This truth emboldens her to triumph over the proud despisers of God, whom their own presumption drives headlong into excess.
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Commenting on Psalm 75:1-10
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. There is a God, and a providence, and things happen not by chance. Though deliverance be hopeless from all points of the compass, yet God can work it for his people; and though judgment come neither from the rising or the setting of the sun, nor from the wilderness of...
In these verses we have two great doctrines laid down and two good inferences drawn from them, for the confirmation of what he had before said. I. Here are two great truths laid down concerning God's government of the world, which we ought to mix faith with, both pertinent to the occasion: - 1.
Commenting on Psalm 75:6-10