Psalms 16:8-10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How peculiarly this belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ, hath been already observed; and if the Reader desires (as he ought to do) to enter into the clearest apprehension of this most precious prophecy, I refer him to Acts 2:25-36 and Acts 13:35-39. And if we add to these what the Apostle, under the Holy Ghost, declared to be the whole scope and tendency of the prophets ministry, when the Spirit of Christ, which, was in them, did signify of the sufferings of Christ, and the glory which should follow, we shall have yet a clearer light thrown upon this important scripture. 1 Peter 1:11. When we have paid all due attention to this glorious scripture, as referring to the great Head of his Church, we may then, with lively faith, consider also the interest his body, the church, have in the same. If the grave could not hold Jesus, neither can it forever make any of his members prisoners. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a sure pledge and earnest of his people's. He arose in a public capacity, and thereby became the first fruits of them that slept. Precious Lord! thou art gone before; and, as thou saidst, only to prepare a place for thy people to follow thee. Hence their flesh shall rest in hope. And they can and do say, in the consciousness of being part of Jesus, that though, after their skin, worms destroy this body, yet in the flesh they shall see God. Oh! thou that art the resurrection and the life, be thou the joy, the hope, the portion, and the sure resurrection of thy people in grace here, and glory hereafter. Job 19:25-27.