Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 48:1
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Psalms48:1
All the suggestions under this Psalm except those otherwise designated, are by our beloved friend, Rev. George Rogers, Tutor of the Pastor's College.
1. What the church is to God.
(a) His "city:" not a lawless rabble, but a well organised community.
(b) A mountain of holiness, for the display of justifying righteousness, of sanctifying grace.
2. What God is to the church.
(a) Its inhabitant. It is his city, his mountain. There he is great. There was no room for the whole of God in Paradise, there is no room for him in his law, no room for him in the heaven of angels: in the church only is there room for all his perfections, for a triune Jehovah. Great everywhere, he is peculiarly great here.
(b) The object of its praises. As he is greatest here, so are his praises, and through the universe on this account.
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