(b) His people. By gift, by purchase, by effectual calling.
2. What they are.
(a) A loyal people: "willing."
(b) A conquered people: "in the day of thy power."
(c) A holy people: "in the beauties of holiness."
(d) A numerous people: "from the womb of the morning," etc. The number of converts at the first proclamation of Christ's gospel was but the dew of his youth. G.R.
Verse 3. First, the internal evidence of Christ's kingdom is in his people's willingness: "Thy people shall be willingness—thy people shall bc a people all willing"—all volunteers, not pressed men. Secondly, the external evidence of it lies in his people's holiness; "the beauties of holiness; "or as it may be rendered—"in the magnificence of his sanctuary, "for the ornaments of the sanctuary and the dress of the priests were very splendid. When you once give yourselves to God, you become temples of God; and sanctity must adorn that heart which is a living temple of the Holy Ghost. J. Bennett , in a Sermon, 1829.
Verse 3. All true followers of Jesus are
(1) priests—beauties of holiness are their sacerdotal robes;
(2) soldiers—"in the day of thine armies";
(3) volunteers;
(4) benefactors—as the dew.
—Suggested by a paper in The Baptist Magazine.
Verse 3. Here we have a cluster of subjects:—the willingness of the Lord's people, the beauty of holiness, young converts the life and glory of the church, the mystery of conversion, and so on.
Verse 4. The eternal priesthood of Christ. On what its perpetuity is founded and the blessed results flowing therefrom.
Verse 4. These words offer three points of special observation.
1. The ceremony used at the consecration of our Lord: "The Lord sware."
2. The office conferred upon him by this rite or ceremony: "Thou art a priest."
3. The prerogatives of his office; which office is here declared to be,
(a) Perpetual, "for ever."
(b) Regular, "after the order."
(c) Royal, "of Melchizedek."
— Daniel Featley.
Verse 4. Melchizedek: a fruitful subject. See notes.
Verse 5. The certain overthrow of every power which opposes the gospel.
Verse 6. The fearful calamities which have happened to nations through their sinful rejection of the Lord Jesus.
Verse 7. Christ's alacrity, self denial, and simplicity, the causes of his success. Example to be imitated.
Verse 7. Christ's humiliation and exaltation.
WORKS UPON THE HUNDRED AND TENTH PSALM
The Exaltation of the Kingdom and Priesthood of Christ. In certaine Sermons upon the 110 Psalme: Preached in the Cathedrall Church and city of Worcester, in the time of Christmasse: anno Domini: 1590. By Rob. Abbot, doctor of Diuinitie, sometime felow of Baliol Coiledge in Oxford. Londini, Impensis G. Bishop. 1601. 4to.
An Explication of the Hundreth and Tenth Psalme. . . . Being the Substance of several Sermons preached at Lincolns Inne; by Edward Reynolds afterwards Bishop of Norwich . 4to. 2nd edition. London, 1035. Also in "Reynolds' Works."]
In the works of John Boys, 160, folio, pp. 809-821, there is an Exposition of this Psalm. An incorruptible Key Composed of the CX. Psalme, wherewith You may open the rest of the holy Scriptures... By Samuel Gorton, Gent. and at the time of the penning hereof, in the place of. Judicature (upon Aquethneck, alias Road Island) of Providence Plantations in the Nanhyganset Bay, New England. Printed in the Yeere 1647. 4to. A new interpretation of the Sixty-eighth Psalm. To which is added, an Exposition of the Hundred and tenth Psalm, proposed in a Sermon, preached before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, on Sunday, October 27, 1811. By the Rev. Richard Dixon, A.M., F.R.S. . . . Oxford, 1811. 4to.
In "The Golden Diary of Heart Converse with Jesus in the Book of Psalms," by the Rev. Dr. Edersheim. . . . London: 1873, there is a short meditation on this Psalm.