CONTENTS Here is a Psalm, and a glorious one it is, in which the Whole church, nay, the whole earth, is called upon to praise Jehovah: for creation, redemption, providence, and grace; and all the blessings connected with the whole. Few are strangers to this blessed Psalm, who ever heard of God in C... [ Continue Reading ]
No service can be real, that is not free, and performed with gladness. Think, my soul, with what freeness, and gladness of heart, thy Jesus entered upon his service, when he cried out, at the call of the Father, Lo! I come: I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my bowels; formin... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe the motives, and the encouragements, to this cheerful service. Our God, is God; and be is a good God; and he is our God, as our Creator: and we are his, by right of creation, like sheep that have an owner. And, being his property, shall we not be his care? Yes, for he is good, sweet thought!... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the invitation, or rather the command, is reiterated: surely such a God, such a Creator; such a Redeemer, may well demand our warmest praise. And therefore let us enter into his courts: let us approach his footstool: let praise, thanksgiving, and sacred joy fill every heart, swell every song, b... [ Continue Reading ]
How delightfully this verse closeth in upon what went before! Wherefore are such blessings bestowed? it might be well asked: Why hath Jehovah made us, and new made us, in Christ Jesus? Why opened his heavenly courts, and called upon us to come in? Is it because man is deserving, and faithful, and ju... [ Continue Reading ]