A Sermon on Psalm 131:3, by Thomas Manton. Sermon V.

Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and for ever.—Ps. cxxxi. 3.

O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
~ Psalm 115:9-11, Psalm 130:7

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
~ Psalm 146:5, Jeremiah 17:7-8

Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.
~ Isaiah 26:4, Psalm 115:18

Mercy, according to the covenant of grace, giveth the same grounds of faith and hope to every one within the church; so that whatever of favour is shown to one of God's people, it is of a general use and profit to others: Ps. cxv. 9-13, O Israel, trust thou in the Lord; he is their help and shield. O house of Aaron, trust thou in the Lord; he is their help and shield. Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord; he is their help and shield. The Lord hath been mindful of us; he will bless us: he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron: he will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great. The scripture showeth that as the duty of trusting in the Lord is common to all sorts of persons, so the blessing of trust is common, and doth belong to all sorts of believers, small and great. God's Israel consists of several degrees of men. There are magistrates who have their peculiar service; there are ministers who intercede between God and man in things belonging to God; and there are the common sort of them that fear God, and are admitted to the honour of being his people. Now these have all the same privileges. If God be the help and shield of the one, lie will be the help and shield of the other; if he bless the one, he will bless the other. Every one that feareth God, and is in the number of true Israelites, may expect his blessing as well as public persons; the meanest peasant as well as the greatest prince, as they have leave to trust in God, so they may expect his blessing. And the reasons are, partly because they have all interest in the same God, who is a God of goodness and power, able and willing to relieve all those that trust in him. He is alike affected to all his children, and beareth them the same love. His saints are now as dear to him as ever: "This honour have all His saints,' that he will beautify their faces with salvation, Ps. cxlix. 9. Partly because they have the same covenant as a common charter: Acts ii. 39, “ The promise is unto you and unto your children, and to all that are afar off.' Partly because they have the same Redeemer: 1 Cor. i. 2, Jesus Christ, theirs and ours.' 'Rich and poor, he paid the same ransom for souls: Exod. xxx. 15, 'Half a shekel.' He is not a more worthy Christ to one than to another: Rom. iii. 22.

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