A01981:1179
The saints sacrifice
The saints sacrifice: or, a commentary on the CXVI. Psalm Which is, a gratulatory psalm, for deliverance from deadly distress. By William Gouge, D.D.The saints sacrifice: or, a commentarie on the CXVI. Psalme Which is, a gratulatory psalme, for deliverance from deadly distresse. By William Gouge, D.D.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1632
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§. 81. Of a fourth property of gratitude, by one kindness to be put in mind of many.
§. 81. Of a fourth property of gratitude, by one kindnesse to be put in mind of many.
V. *Gratefulness raiseth the mind from some favours to all. This general particle, all, is not so strictly to be taken as if no favour or benefit were to be left out: for so many are the benefits which God from time to time doth bestow upon us, as it is not possible to fasten our mind upon them all: but it is to be taken of the several kinds of Gods benefits, (as General, Particular, Public, Private, Temporal, Spiritual, &c.) and of as many several and distinct branches of these as we can. Thus when David was settled in his Kingdom, and thereupon took occasion to praise God, ain his Psalm of praise he reckoneth up all those kindnesses which God had done to his people from the time of their first fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: yea he giveth this express charge, bTalk ye of All his wondrous works. So cJehoshaphat, ⟨p. 164⟩when he consulted upon the promise of victory which God by his Prophet had given him, to praise the Lord, the 136. Psalm, which containeth a catalogue of all Gods mercies, was appointed to be sung. That sweet singer of Israel, who well knew how to order his forms of praise to God as affirmatively he promiseth to