Psalms 84:12

How beautifully and divinely the Psalm closeth! Oh Reader! may your heart and mine join issue with it! Blessed is the nation, blessed the family, blessed the man, who trusteth to a God in Christ!

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HAIL! thou holy, thou blessed, thou anointed of God! Oh! let thy name be ever to my soul as ointment poured forth. For while any God and Father looks upon the face of his anointed, Jesus is my sun and shield, And looking up to him whom the Father beholds, always apprehending and laying hold of him by faith, oh! how will thy person, thou blessed Jesus! thy love, thy grace, thy mercy to me, a poor sinner, be then considered! How shall I delight in thy name, thy sabbaths, thine ordinances, thy word, thine house of prayer! Surely, one day in thy courts, will be better than a thousand elsewhere. And will not Jesus grant me, by his blessed Spirit, these soul-satisfying, soul-strengthening enjoyments? Shall the sparrow, the bird of the air, be indulged with a resting place; and shall a child of thine be kept from thee? Art not thou my resting-place, my Noah, whither, like the dove, I may return when I can find no place for the sole of my foot to light upon? Lord Jesus! be thou all in all to my soul! and while gratifying my faith with making every day a sabbath-day here below, oh! for grace to long for the everlasting sabbaths of heaven, where the unceasing love and adoration of God and the Lamb will be my perpetual and eternal joy forevermore. Haste, my beloved! and until this day of heaven without a shade break in upon my longing soul, and the shadows of earth forever flee away, be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.