CONTENTS Here we have a song of praise, both for the public mercies of God to his church, and the private manifestations of the same to every individual of it. To the chief musician, A Song 1-8 In every point of view the employment here enjoined is of universal concern. All lands, all nations, a... [ Continue Reading ]
If we read these verses with reference to the great work of redemption wrought upon the heart of a sinner, how very decisive are they of the covenant promises made to the person of the Redeemer by the Father, concerning the certainty of his success: Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy powe... [ Continue Reading ]
The Psalmist is here inviting the people to peruse the account of the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. And evidently the Holy Ghost intends this ministry of his servant to be directed as a means, in his almighty hand, to consider in that history the spiritual deliverance of God's Israel from the Eg... [ Continue Reading ]
Well may every redeemed soul join issue in this service, and call upon everyone in union with Christ to bless a covenant God in him, and to make the voice of his praise to be made known. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, is peculiarly demanded when praise is made general; Psalms 107:1. But God's... [ Continue Reading ]
It is sweet and profitable to go up to God's house, under the leadings of God's Spirit, at all times, and upon all occasions; and it is doubly sweet when, after sickness or detention from God's ordinances, we are permitted once more to enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with prai... [ Continue Reading ]
If we consider, in the first place, David's Lord as the preacher here, these verses will be very blessed to our view. How was Christ exercised in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, onto him that was able to save him from death, and... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER, while the Holy Ghost is here calling upon all lands to celebrate the praises of Jehovah, say what part can you, from a heart-felt satisfaction, bear in the song? Can you bless God for creation? So can the various characters of the earth. Can you bless God for providences? So can... [ Continue Reading ]