2. That confidence in him shall never be disap- pointed—
[When it is said in our text, " The poor of his people shall trust in it," the meaning evidently is, that by so doing they shall be secure. And certain it is, that " the name of the Lord is a strong tower ; and that the righteous runneth to it and is safe." Find in the whole annals of the world one person who, when trusting in God, was disappointed of his hope. Did Ma- nasseh rely on the viercy of God ? He, even he, obtained par- don. Did Asa, or Jehoshaphat, or Hezekiah, rely on the power of God ? No enemy could withstand them. Did Abraham believe in the truth and faithfulness of God? The long-expected seed was given to him, that became " as the stars of heaven for number, and as the sands upon the sea-shore innumerable." Thus shall every one be blessed who putteth his trust in God : *' he shall be firm, and immoveable as Mount Zion itself, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever""." The question, " Who ever put his trust in God and was confounded ?" never has been, and never can be answered, but in a way of univer- sal negation.]
The text should be yet further viewed as,
in. A consoling truth —
It is unspeakably consoling,
L In reference to the Church at large —
^ 1 Cor, iii. 11. • Acts iv. 12. ■" Isai. xlv. 22.
n John xiv. 6. ° Jer. xvii. 5. p Rom. ix. 30 — 32.
« Isai. XXX. 7. "^ Ps. cxxv. 1.