An Historic Service this Lord's Day
Just a reminder that this coming Lord's Day evening, June 28th, at 5:00pm, the Rev. Derrick Vander Meulen will be installed as our church planter to serve the Kauai Reformation Church. May God be praised and his people on Kauai saved!
Guidance from Ames on Singing Imprecatory Psalms
Quest. 4. How may we sing those Psalms aright, which contain dire imprecations in them?
8. A. 1. We may upon occasion of those imprecations meditate with fear and trembling, on the terrible judgments of God against the sins of impenitent persons.
9. 2. We may thereupon profit in patience and consolation, against the temptations which are wont to [habitually] arise from the prosperity of the wicked, and affliction of the godly.
10. 3. We may also pray to God that he would hasten his revenge (not against our private enemies but) against the wicked and incurable enemies of his Church.
William Ames, Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof (London, 1639), 4.19.8–10. English modernized.
