"He shall
bless them that fear him, small and great." He shall bless them,
that is, with the same blessing of eternal life. For the difference
in degrees of grace in saints doth not make the blessing, as to its
nature, differ. It is the same heaven, the same life, the same
glory, and the same eternity of felicity, that they are in the text
promised to be blessed with. Christ at the day of judgment
particularly mentioneth and owneth the least: "Inasmuch as ye did it
not to one of the least." The least then was there, in his kingdom
and in his glory, as well as the greatest of all.
Dost thou fear God? Why, the Holy Ghost hath on purpose indited for
thee a whole psalm to sing concerning thyself. So that thou mayest
even as thou art, in thy calling, bed, journey, or whenever, sing
out thine own blessed and happy condition to thine own comfort, and
the comfort of thy fellows. The psalm is called the 128th Psalm.
"Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord; he is their help and
their shield." Psalm 115:11. Now what a privilege is this: an
exhortation in general to sinners, as sinners, to trust in him, is a
privilege great and glorious; but for a man to be singled out from
his neighbors, for a man to be spoken to from heaven as it were by
name, and to be told that God has given him a license, a special and
peculiar grant to trust in him, this is abundantly more; and yet
this is the grant that God has given that man that feareth the Lord.
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