The Practices of Persecutors
Delivered in a Sermon on Psalm 86:14T
"O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before them" (Psalm 86:14). The present condition and state of this our time lets us see what need we have to understand the meaning of these words, for our instruction and comfort. For as the Prophet, David, when he penned this Psalm, was persecuted by powerful and malicious enemies, from whose rage and fury he prays to God for deliverance, so we being threatened by the like hostile invasion, have need to crave by humble supplication the Lord’s gracious and favourable protection.