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"O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory."—Psalm 98:1.
DEITY IS CONSPICUOUS HERE.
Man is not made mention of. There is no name of Moses, or of the prophets, or of the apostles here; I read not the names of Chrysostom and Augustine, nor of those modern fathers of the Church, such as Calvin, and Zwingle—
the stars are lost in the blaze of the sun.
O God! how glorious is thy right arm, and how do thy disciples, thy children, hide their heads and say,
"Not unto us, but unto thy name be all the glory!"
...I wish I might enlarge here and speak of the conspicuous glory of God in this respect, that all the persons of the Trinity will be glorified, the Father, the Son, the Spirit. All the attributes of God, his unsearchable greatness, and his unrivaled majesty, his grace, his power, his truth, his justice, his holiness, his immutability, these shall shine forth with resplendent luster. His wondrous works and his terrible acts shall declare his praise; they shall be the theme of every tongue, and the topic of every conversation.
"Men shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power."
All his decrees shall be seen in their final accomplishment, every one of them fulfilled, the counsel answering to the providence. Of all that the Father willed, of all that the Son performed, of all that the Spirit revealed, not one thing is frustrated. How shall I gather up these things? O for the voice of a mighty angel!
O for a seraph's lip of fire, to speak now of the splendor of that last day, when not only the great but the little, not only the abundance of God's providence, and the great deeps of his counsel, but even the small deeds of his loving-kindness shall be made to sing forth his praise, when not only the leviathan deeds of God shall make the deep to praise the Lord, but even the little fish that move therein, shall leap up to join the chorus, and everywhere from everything, for everything, there shall be heard the tune—
"His right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory."
The New Song -- C. H. Spurgeon
DEITY IS CONSPICUOUS HERE.
Man is not made mention of. There is no name of Moses, or of the prophets, or of the apostles here; I read not the names of Chrysostom and Augustine, nor of those modern fathers of the Church, such as Calvin, and Zwingle—
the stars are lost in the blaze of the sun.
O God! how glorious is thy right arm, and how do thy disciples, thy children, hide their heads and say,
"Not unto us, but unto thy name be all the glory!"
...I wish I might enlarge here and speak of the conspicuous glory of God in this respect, that all the persons of the Trinity will be glorified, the Father, the Son, the Spirit. All the attributes of God, his unsearchable greatness, and his unrivaled majesty, his grace, his power, his truth, his justice, his holiness, his immutability, these shall shine forth with resplendent luster. His wondrous works and his terrible acts shall declare his praise; they shall be the theme of every tongue, and the topic of every conversation.
"Men shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power."
All his decrees shall be seen in their final accomplishment, every one of them fulfilled, the counsel answering to the providence. Of all that the Father willed, of all that the Son performed, of all that the Spirit revealed, not one thing is frustrated. How shall I gather up these things? O for the voice of a mighty angel!
O for a seraph's lip of fire, to speak now of the splendor of that last day, when not only the great but the little, not only the abundance of God's providence, and the great deeps of his counsel, but even the small deeds of his loving-kindness shall be made to sing forth his praise, when not only the leviathan deeds of God shall make the deep to praise the Lord, but even the little fish that move therein, shall leap up to join the chorus, and everywhere from everything, for everything, there shall be heard the tune—
"His right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory."
The New Song -- C. H. Spurgeon
