I reioyced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord. Psalm 122:1 (Geneva Bible)

The Free Gospel
by Ralph Erskine (1685–1752)

Ho, every thirsty soul and all
That poor and needy are;
Here’s water of salvation well
For you to come and share.

Here’s freedom both from sin and woe,
And blessings all divine;
Here streams of love and mercy flow,
Like floods of milk and wine.

Approach the fountainhead of bliss,
That’s open like the sea,
To buyers that are moneyless,
To poorest beggars free.

Why spend you all your wealth and pains,
For that which is not bread,
And for unsatisfying gains,
On which no soul can feed?

While vain ye seek, with earthly toys,
To fill an empty mind,
You lose immortal solid joys,
And feed upon the wind.

Incline your heart, and come to me;
Hear, and your soul shall live;
For mercies sure, as well as free,
I bind myself to give.

—Worthy Is the Lamb (Soli Deo Gloria, 2004).

Psalme 119:41–48
(Geneva Bible)
Vav.

41 And let thy louing kindnesse come vnto me, O Lord, and thy saluation according to thy promise. 42 So shall I make answere vnto my blasphemers: for I trust in thy woorde. 43 And take not the woorde of trueth vtterly out of my mouth: for I waite for thy iudgements. 44 So shall I alway keepe thy Lawe for euer and euer. 45 And I will walke at libertie: for I seeke thy precepts. 46 I will speake also of thy testimonies before Kings, and will not be ashamed. 47 And my delite shalbe in thy commandements, which I haue loued. 48 Mine handes also will I lift vp vnto thy commandements, which I haue loued, and I will meditate in thy statutes.

Sermons Albert Mohler Alistair Begg Bret Capranica David Legge

David Strain John MacArthur John Piper Mark Loughridge Michael Beasley Paul Lamey

Paul W. Martin Phil Johnson Phillip M. Way R.C. Sproul Steve Weaver Thabiti Abyabwile

Grace be with you, and Peace from God our Father, and from the Lorde Jesus Christ.

I reioyced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord. (Psalme 122:1 Geneva Bible)

Cords of Love
by Ralph Erskine (1685–1752)

Seek God while yet He may be found,
Call on Him while He’s near;
While graces trump, the joyful sound
Of mercy strikes your ear.

Oh, let the wicked change his way,
And the unrighteous man,
His thoughts, and legal hopes, that stray,
Cross to the gospel plan.

And let him now return to God,
The Lord our righteousness;
Who, through the merit of His blood,
In mercy will him bless.

To our God let him run betimes,
For gracious will He be;
And for his multitude of crimes
Will pardons multiply.

Let, saith the Lord, My boundless grace
Move guilty souls to come,
And trust Me with their desp’rate case
When hopeless thoughts do roam.

Because My thoughts and ways divine
Are not as yours; for why?
All yours are base and low, but Mine
Immensely great and high.

For as the heav’ns, in height and space,
Transcend your earthly boors;
Much more My thoughts and ways of grace
Surmount all thoughts of yours.

Great God, then bid the mountains move;
Our sins that reach the sky,
Be melted down with flames of love,
More infinitely high.

—Worthy Is the Lamb (Soli Deo Gloria, 2004).

Psalme 98
Geneva Bible
A Psalme.
1 Sing vnto the Lord a newe song: for hee hath done marueilous things: his right hand, and his holy arme haue gotten him the victorie.
2 The Lord declared his saluation: his righteousnes hath he reueiled in the sight of ye nations.
3 He hath remembred his mercy and his trueth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth haue seene the saluation of our God.
4 All the earth, sing ye loude vnto the Lord: crie out and reioyce, and sing prayses.
5 Sing prayse to the Lord vpon the harpe, euen vpon the harpe with a singing voyce.
6 With shalmes and sound of trumpets sing loude before the Lord the King.
7 Let the sea roare, and all that therein is, the world, and they that dwell therein. 8 Let the floods clap their hands, and let the mountaines reioyce together
9 Before the Lord: for he is come to iudge the earth: with righteousnesse shall hee iudge the world, and the people with equitie.

Sermons Albert Mohler Alistair Begg Bret Capranica David Legge

David Strain John MacArthur John Piper Mark Loughridge Michael Beasley Paul Lamey

Paul W. Martin Phil Johnson Phillip M. Way R.C. Sproul Steve Weaver Thabiti Abyabwile

Grace be with you, and Peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Gone to Louisville. See you next Sunday . . . maybe.	Visit Challies.com for liveblogging coverage.
Comments will be held for moderation until I return.

I reioyced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord. (Psalme 122:1 Geneva Bible)

The Ten Commandments
Ralph Erskine (1685-1752)

	o God but Me shalt thou adore, I am thy God alone.
2.	No image frame to bow before, But idols all dethrone.
3.	God’s glorious name take not in vain, for be revered He will.
4.	His sacred Sabbath don’t profane, Mind it is holy still.
5.	To parents render due respect, This may thy life prolong.
6.	All murder shun and malice check, To no man’s life do wrong.
7.	From thought of whoredom base abstain, From words and actions vile.
8.	Shun theft and all unlawful gain, Nor gather wealth by guile.
9.	False witness flee, and slandering spite, Nor willful lies invent.
10.	Don’t covet what’s thy neighbor’s right, Nor harbor discontent.

—from Worthy Is the Lamb (Soli Deo Gloria, 2004).

salme 15
(Geneva Bible)
A Psalme of Dauid.
1 Lord, who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle? who shall rest in thine holy Mountaine?
2 He that walketh vprightly and worketh righteousnes, and speaketh the trueth in his heart.
3 He that slandereth not with his tongue, nor doeth euill to his neighbour, nor receiueth a false report against his neighbour.
4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned, but he honoureth them that feare the Lord: he that sweareth to his owne hinderance and changeth not.
5 He that giueth not his money vnto vsurie, nor taketh reward against the innocent: hee that doeth these things, shall neuer be moued.

Sermons Albert Mohler Alistair Begg Bret Capranica David Legge

David Strain John MacArthur John Piper Mark Loughridge Michael Beasley Paul Lamey

Paul W. Martin Phil Johnson Phillip M. Way R.C. Sproul Steve Weaver Thabiti Abyabwile

Grace be with you, and Peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I reioyced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord. (Psalme 122:1 Geneva Bible)

We Will Make Thee Borders of Gold, with Studs of Silver
by Ralph Erskine (1685-1752)

bject not, saying, “How shall I,
So weak, so black a swain,
Such beauties in Jehovah’s eye
Or furnish or maintain?”

For with united power divine
We Father, Son, and Spirit,
Do stand engaged thee to refine,
And make thy form complete.

Keep thou no finite powers view,
To grace and deck thee thus;
Creation-work, both old and new,
Belongs to none but Us.

We’ll make thee yet more radiant gems
Of grace, without thine aid,
To fence thy robe, like golden hems,
With silver studs inlaid.

Thy growing grace shall thrive and bear
A perfect crop at length;
Yet by no might within thy sphere,
But Our concurring strength.

Thy gold and silver ornament
Must strong and lasting prove;
For, lo, it is the pow’rful vent
Of Our eternal love.

Of old the good, the great Three-One,
Did jointly take thy part;
Thy naked soul We thought upon
With pity in Our heart.

We held a counsel for thy good,
Where I, without a sob,
Did choose a vesture dipped in blood
To buy thy golden robe.

—from Worthy Is the Lamb (Soli Deo Gloria, 2004).

salme 20 (Geneva Bible)
To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid.

1 The Lord heare thee in the day of trouble: the name of ye God of Iaakob defend thee:
2 Send thee helpe from the Sanctuarie, and strengthen thee out of Zion.
3 Let him remember all thine offerings, and turne thy burnt offerings into asshes. Selah:
4 And graunt thee according to thine heart, and fulfill all thy purpose:
5 That we may reioyce in thy saluation, and set vp the banner in the Name of our God, when the Lord shall performe all thy petitions.
6 Now know I that the Lord will helpe his anointed, and will heare him from his Sanctuarie, by the mightie helpe of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, & some in horses: but we will remember the Name of ye Lord our God.
8 They are brought downe and fallen, but we are risen, and stand vpright.
9 Saue Lord: let the King heare vs in the day that we call.

ecommended
Sermons

Bret Capranica
Steve Weaver
Phillip M. Way
Jason Robertson
John MacArthur
Phil Johnson & Don Green
David Legge
David Strain
R.C. Sproul

Grace be with you, and Peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I reioyced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord. (Psalme 122:1 Geneva Bible)

The Fall of Adam
by Ralph Erskine (1685-1752)

ld Adam once a heaven of pleasure found,
While he with perfect innocence was crowned.
His winged affections to his God could move
In raptures of desire, and strains of love.

Man standing spotless, pure, and innocent,
Could well the law of works with works content;
Though then, nor since, it could demand no less
Than personal and perfect righteousness!

These unto sinless men were easy terms,
Though now beyond the reach of withered arms.
The legal covenant then upon the field,
Perfection sought, man could perfection yield.

Rich had he and his progeny remained,
Had he primeval innocence maintained.
His life had been a rest without annoy,
A scene of bliss, a paradise of joy.

But subtle Satan, in the serpent hid,
Proposing fair the fruit that God forbid,
Man soon seduced by hell’s alluring art,
Did, disobedient, from the rule depart,

Devoured the bait, and by his bold offence
Fell from his blissful state of innocence,
Prostrate, he lost his God, his life, his crown,
From all his glory tumbled headlong down,

Plunged in a deep abyss of sin and woe,
Were, void of heart to will, or hand to do;
For’s own relief he can’t command a thought,
The total sum of what he can is nought.

He’s able only now to increase his thrall,
He can destroy himself, and this is all,
But can the hellish brat heav’n’s law fulfill?
Whose precepts high surmount his strength and skill,

Can filthy dross produce a golden beam?
Or poisoned springs a salutif’rous stream?
Can carnal mind, fierce enmity’s wide maw,
Be duly subject to the divine law?

Nay, now its direful threatenings must take place
On all the disobedient human race,
Who do by glut omnipotence provoke,
Obnoxious stand to his uplifted stroke.

They must engulf themselves in endless woes,
Who to the living god are deadly foes;
Who natively his holy will gainsay,
Must to his awful justice fall a prey.

In vain do mankind now expect, in vain
By legal deeds immortal life to gain;
Nay, death is threatened, threats must have their due,
Or souls that sin, must die; as God is true.

—from Worthy Is the Lamb (Soli Deo Gloria, 2004).

Psalme 54 (Geneva Bible)
To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme of Dauid, to giue instruction. Whe the Ziphims came and said vnto Saul, Is not Dauid hid among vs?

1 Saue mee, O God, by thy Name, and by thy power iudge me.
2 O God, heare my prayer: hearken vnto the wordes of my mouth.
3 For strangers are risen vp against me, and tyrants seeke my soule: they haue not set God before them. Selah.
4 Beholde, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that vpholde my soule.
5 He shall rewarde euill vnto mine enemies: Oh cut them off in thy trueth!
6 Then I will sacrifice freely vnto thee: I wil praise thy Name, O Lord, because it is good.
7 For he hath deliuered me out of al trouble, & mine eye hath seene my desire vpo mine enemies.

Recommended Sermons

Steve Weaver
Phillip M. Way
Jason Robertson
John MacArthur
Phil Johnson & Don Green
David Legge
R.C. Sproul

Grace be with you, and Peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I reioyced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord. (Psalme 122:1 Geneva Bible)

The Glory of God in Christ
by Ralph Erskine (1685-1752)

ll nature spreads, with open blaze,
Her Maker’s name abroad;
And every work of His displays
The power and skill of God.

But in the grace that rescued man,
His brightest glory shines;
Here on the cross ’tis fairest drawn,
In precious bloody lines.

Here His whole name appears complete:
And who can guess or prove,
Which of the letters best are writ,
The wisdom, power, or love?

Justice and mercy, truth and grace,
In all their sweetest charms,
Here met, and joined their kind embrace,
With everlasting arms.

—from Worthy Is the Lamb (Soli Deo Gloria, 2004).

Psalme 106 (Geneva Bible)

1 Prayse ye the Lord. Prayse ye the Lord because he is good, for his mercie endureth for euer.
2 Who can expresse the noble actes of the Lord, or shewe forth all his prayse?
3 Blessed are they that keepe iudgement, and doe righteousnesse at all times.
4 Remember me, O Lord, with the fauour of thy people: visite me with thy saluation,
5 That I may see the felicitie of thy chosen, and reioyce in the ioy of thy people, and glorie with thine inheritance.
6 We haue sinned with our fathers: we haue committed iniquitie, and done wickedly.
7 Our fathers vnderstoode not thy wonders in Egypt, neither remembred they the multitude of thy mercies, but rebelled at the Sea, euen at the red sea.
8 Neuerthelesse he saued them for his Names sake, that he might make his power to be knowen.
9 And he rebuked the red Sea, and it was dryed vp, and he led them in the deepe, as in the wildernesse.
10 And he saued them from ye aduersaries hand, and deliuered them from ye hand of the enemie.
11 And the waters couered their oppressours: not one of them was left.
12 Then beleeued they his wordes, and sang prayse vnto him.
13 But incontinently they forgate his workes: they wayted not for his counsell,
14 But lusted with concupiscence in the wildernes, and tempted God in the desert.
15 Then he gaue them their desire: but he sent leannesse into their soule.
16 They enuied Moses also in the tentes, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord.
17 Therefore the earth opened & swallowed vp Dathan, & couered the companie of Abiram.
18 And the fire was kindled in their assembly: the flame burnt vp the wicked.
19 They made a calfe in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
20 Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a bullocke, that eateth grasse.
21 They forgate God their Sauiour, which had done great things in Egypt,
22 Wonderous woorkes in the lande of Ham, and fearefull things by the red Sea.
23 Therefore he minded to destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stand in the breach before him to turne away his wrath, least he shoulde destroy them.
24 Also they contemned that pleasant land, and beleeued not his worde,
25 But murmured in their tentes, and hearkened not vnto the voice of the Lord.
26 Therefore hee lifted vp his hande against them, to destroy them in the wildernesse,
27 And to destroy their seede among the nations, & to scatter them throughout the countries.
28 They ioyned themselues also vnto Baalpeor, and did eate the offrings of the dead.
29 Thus they prouoked him vnto anger with their owne inuentions, and the plague brake in vpon them.
30 But Phinehas stoode vp, and executed iudgement, and the plague was staied.
31 And it was imputed vnto him for righteousnes from generation to generation for euer.
32 They angred him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was punished for their sakes,
33 Because they vexed his spirite, so that hee spake vnaduisedly with his lippes.
34 Neither destroied they the people, as the Lord had commaunded them,
35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their workes,
36 And serued their idoles, which were their ruine.
37 Yea, they offered their sonnes, and their daughters vnto deuils,
38 And shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes, & of their daughters, whome they offred vnto the idoles of Canaan, and the lande was defiled with blood.
39 Thus were they steined with their owne woorkes, and went a whoring with their owne inuentions.
40 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he abhorred his owne inheritance.
41 And hee gaue them into the hande of the heathen: and they that hated them, were Lords ouer them.
42 Their enemies also oppressed them, & they were humbled vnder their hand.
43 Many a time did hee deliuer them, but they prouoked him by their counsels: therefore they were brought downe by their iniquitie.
44 Yet hee sawe when they were in affliction, and he heard their crie.
45 And he remembred his couenant towarde them and repented acoording to the multitude of his mercies,
46 And gaue them fauour in the sight of all them that lead them captiues.
47 Saue vs, O Lord our God, and gather vs from among the heathen, that we may praise thine holy Name, and glorie in thy praise.
48 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer and euer, and let all the people say, So be it. Praise yee the Lord.

Grace be with you, and Peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

I reioyced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord. (Psalme 122:1 Geneva Bible)

Proofs of God's Power and Wisdom in the Creation and Preservation of the World
by Ralph Erskine (1685-1752)

he Lord Jehovah built the skies,
And reared this stately frame;
The wide creation testifies
The greatness of His name.

The liquid element below
Was gathered by His hand;
The rolling seas together flow,
And leave the solid land.

To Him, the Maker, does pertain
What in the ocean is;
The finny people of the main,
And monsters there, are His.

The dusky shades of hell that lie,
Wrapped up in webs of night.
May well elude the solar eye,
But not th’Almighty’s sight.

Death and destruction do in vain,
Their sable covering spread,
And in their secret vaults enchain,
Or fast lock up the dead.

The eye of the Almighty does
Their spoils entire survey;
And no distinction ever knows
Between the night and day.

He, o’er the airy empty place,
In pomp displays on high
The wide expanse, and ample space,
Of all the northern sky.

The ponderous earth, at His command,
Hangs in the ambient air;
No pillars bear the fabric grand,
But just His will and care.

He bids the clouds with water pent,
Imprisoned tempests chain;
Then their big floating wombs, unrent,
Suspend the birth of rain.

Again He bids their bosom ope,
And down the blessing pours,
To feed the lab’ring farmer’s hope
With warm prolific show’rs.

Lest His high throne, so dazzling bright,
By naked eyes unseen,
With too much glory oppress our sight,
He spreads His clouds between.

He raises rocky fences round
The spacious swelling deep,
Which do the raging billows bound,
Mad waves in prison keep.

That while the rule of day and night,
The sun and moon maintain,
The rolling seas may have no might
To drown the earth again.

High hills that pillars seem and props
Of heaven’s expanded roof,
Do quake, and bow their towering tops
Aghast at His reproof.

He cleaves the main, bids billows rise,
Then curbs the swelling tide;
How soon they cope with clouds and skies,
So soon He lays their pride.

The trembling waves at His command,
Creep softly to the shore;
Storms over-awed do silent stand,
Do quickly cease to roar.

Thus lawless seas He does control,
Diversifies the deep;
He makes the sleeping billows roll,
The rolling billows sleep.

He spreads the heavens, their azure face
He garnished by His might;
And did them most profusely grace
With constellations bright.

His hand the crooked serpent made;
But who can speak his art?
Of whom all’s nothing that is said,
We know so small a part.

Who can the utmost force explore
Of His almighty hands?
For even the thunder of His pow’r
What mortal understands?

—from Worthy Is the Lamb (Soli Deo Gloria, 2004).

salme 22 (Geneva Bible)
To him that excelleth vpon Aiieleth Hasshahar. A Psalme of Dauid.
1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from mine health, and from the wordes of my roaring?
2 O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.
3 But thou art holy, and doest inhabite the prayses of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didest deliuer them.
5 They called vpon thee, and were deliuered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6 But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people.
7 All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying,
8 He trusted in the Lord, let him deliuer him: let him saue him, seeing he loueth him.
9 But thou didest draw me out of ye wombe: thou gauest me hope, euen at my mothers breasts.
10 I was cast vpon thee, euen from ye wombe: thou art my God from my mothers belly.
11 Be not farre from me, because trouble is neere: for there is none to helpe me.
12 Many yong bulles haue compassed me: mightie bulles of Bashan haue closed me about.
13 They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.
14 I am like water powred out, and all my bones are out of ioynt: mine heart is like waxe: it is molten in the middes of my bowels.
15 My strength is dryed vp like a potsheard, and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete.
17 I may tell all my bones: yet they beholde, and looke vpon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lottes vpon my vesture.
19 But be thou not farre off, O Lord, my strength: hasten to helpe me.
20 Deliuer my soule from the sword: my desolate soule from the power of the dogge.
21 Saue me from the lyons mouth, and answere me in sauing me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
22 I wil declare thy Name vnto my brethren: in the middes of the Congregation will I praise thee, saying,
23 Prayse the Lord, ye that feare him: magnifie ye him, all the seede of Iaakob, and feare ye him, all the seede of Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred ye affliction of the poore: neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he called vnto him, he heard.
25 My prayse shalbe of thee in the great Congregation: my vowes will I perfourme before them that feare him.
26 The poore shall eate and be satisfied: they that seeke after the Lord, shall prayse him: your heart shall liue for euer.
27 All the endes of the worlde shall remember themselues, and turne to the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdome is the Lords, and he ruleth among the nations.
29 All they that be fat in the earth, shall eate and worship: all they that go downe into the dust, shall bowe before him, euen he that cannot quicken his owne soule.
30 Their seede shall serue him: it shalbe counted vnto the Lord for a generation.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shall be borne, because he hath done it.

Grace and peace to you this Lord’s Day.