A01981:1765
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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Section 121: §. 121. Of practising our selves what we provoke others unto.
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§. 121. Of practising our selves what we provoke others unto.
1II. WE must our selves practice what we provoke others unto. We may and must (as we heard in the former §) desire Saints to give thanks for us, but withal we may not fail our selves mutually to give thanks for our selves, and praise the Lord. So did this Prophet, as we have seen at large from the beginning of the 12 verse to this last clause of this Psalm. Observe the patterns of such as in Scripture are approved for their zeal in stirring up others, and you shall find them forward to do themselves what they incited others unto. We will arise and go to Bethel, &c. saith Jacob, (Gen. 35. 3.) As for me and my house, saith Joshua, (Jos. 24. 15.) we will serve the Lord. It is an usual phrase of such as heartily desire to advance the glory of God, to express their desire in the first person of the plural number, whereby they show that they intend themselves to do what ⟨p. 274⟩they require of others, and therefore incite themselves as 2well as others, thus, Let us offer to God the sacrifice of praise continually. Let us sing unto the Lord. Let us go up to the mountain of the Lord. We will praise thy name O God for ever. We will give thee thanks for ever. We will show forth thy praise. Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, do we give thanks.
1II. WE must our selves practice what wee provoke others unto. We may and must (as we heard in the former §) desire Saints to give thanks for us, but withall we may not faile our selves mutually to give thanks for our selves, and praise the Lord. So did this Prophet, as we have seene at large from the beginning of the 12 verse to this last clause of this Psalme. Observe the patternes of such as in Scripture are approved for their zeale in stirring up others, and you shall find them forward to doe themselves what they incited others unto. We will arise and go to Bethel, &c. saith Iacob, (