Pastor shared these in a sermon this Sunday* (7/12/20) and I wanted to save them and share them as well, so here they are!
There is no help nor answer in such a case but that which follows in the fourth verse of the Psalm, “The Lord is in His holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men;” as if he had said, in the midst of these confusions, when as it is said, “All the foundations of the earth are out of course;” (Psalm 82:5), yet God keeps His course still, He is where He was and as He was, without variableness or shadow of turning.
— Joseph Caryl
Sinning times have ever been the saints’ praying times: this sent Ezra with a heavy heart to confess the sin of his people, and to bewail their abominations before the Lord (Ezra 9:1-15). And Jeremiah tells the wicked of his degenerate age, that “his soul should weep in secret places for their pride” (Jeremiah 13:17). Indeed, sometimes sin comes to such a height, that this is almost all the godly can do, to get into a corner, and bewail the general pollutions of the age. “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
— William Gurnall
The civil foundation of a nation or people, is their laws and constitutions. The order and power that’s among them, that’s the foundation of a people; and when once this foundation is destroyed, What can the righteous do? What can the best, the wisest in the world, do in such a case? What can any man do, if there be not a foundation of government left among men?
— Joseph Caryl
Here is the a link to the sermon:
*obviously this was written at an earlier time, as indicated by the date
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