I could wish this task, on this solemn, and to me, painful occasion, had devolved on one suitable, but supported by the Lord’s presence, upheld by his power, and cheered with his approbation in my mind, I humbly attempt to rehearse the wonders of his love, the riches of his grace, and the displays of his mercy to me, and mine, and attempt, in my poor way, to prove the glorious truth in the text: Out of the mouths of babes God has ordained his own glory, the glory of his _love_, his _grace_, his _mercy_, his _truth_, his _power_, his _faithfulness_, and infinite _condescension_. It is true that I can do no justice to the important words, by way of a Sermon. They contain a vast store of rich truth and precious experience. I must therefore merely glance at the meaning, and shew, in as concise a manner as I can, to whom they belong, and to whom they will, with scriptural propriety, apply. The title of this psalm is to the chief musician upon Gittith, a psalm of David.—Various are the conjectures of learned men on this title. Some think the word Gittith signifies the wine press, and the title means, To the conqueror over the trodden wine press, wrath; and if so, we are not at a loss to know to whom it belongs. A psalm of, or concerning the beloved one, to whom be glory. Amen. The ever blessed Redeemer is the subject of this psalm. Hence we find it quoted in the New Testament, and twice applied to him. It is a revelation of Christ, as God-man, in his headship, his empire, dominion, and excellent name, his royalties, majesty, and glory, with his union, relation, and interest in his people. It is addressed to him as Jehovah, the covenant God of the church; as one of the glorious and divine persons, subsisting in the divine essence, with the Father and the holy Spirit, the incomprehensible God, the most high God, blessed for evermore; the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the first and the last. If the first, there were none before him, and if the last, there can be none after him. He is the Almighty, himself has declared it; the true God and eternal life, possessing every divine and glorious perfection, the maker of heaven and earth, the centre, the foundation, the glory, the beauty, and ornament of creation; and the whole is sustained by him—he is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, unchangeable—the adorable I am, that I am!—and as God in covenant, as well as absolute deity, he is called our God, your God, their God, my Lord, and my God, the most mighty, the great God, the living God; and must not that person have diabolical effrontery to deny the essential and eternal Godhead of the Lord Jesus Christ? Such conduct clearly demonstrates that such persons are in nature’s thickest gloom, nor can those characters give the church or the world any scriptural account of the holy Spirit’s work upon their hearts. We, therefore, can never allow such unconverted persons to be proper judges of any one truth in divine revelation.