3): “Who forgives all thy iniquities, and heals all thy diseases.” His redemption from death, or eternal destruction his expected glorification thereupon, which he speaks of with that certainty, as if it were present (ver. He begins at the first and foundation mercy to himself, the pardon of his sin and justification of his person, the renewing of his sickly and languishing nature (ver. After the Psalmist had summoned his own soul to this task, he enumerates the Divine blessings received by him, to awaken his soul by a sense of them to so noble a work.

We are more ready, to reach out a hand to receive his mercies, than to lift up our hearts to recognize them after the receipt. Wants will spur us on to prayer, but a pure love to God can only spirit us to praise. We are so void of a pure and entire love to God, that we have no mind to those duties. Our souls will hang back from God in every duty, much more in this, if we lay not a strict charge upon them. “All that is within me,” every power of my rational, and every affection of my sensitive part: all his faculties, all his thoughts. We are apt to forget Divine benefits: our souls must therefore be often jogged, and roused up. As man is too shallow a creature to comprehend the excellency of God, so he is too dull and scanty a creature to offer up a due praise to God, both in regard of the excellency of his nature, and the multitude and greatness of his benefits.Ģ. 1): “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name:” and because himself and all men were insufficient to offer up a praise to God answerable to the greatness of his benefits, he summons in the end of the psalm the angels, and all creatures, to join in concert with him. THE Psalm begins with the praise of God, wherein the penman excites his soul to a right and elevated management of so great a duty (ver. PSALM 103:19.- The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens: and his kingdom ruleth over all.

Dominion by calvin baker