Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

1. 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.

2. We are apt to forget divine benefits, our Souls must therefore be often jogged, and roused up. All that is within me, every power of my Rational, and every Affection of my Sensitive part. All his Faculties, all his Thoughts. Our Souls will hang back from God in every duty, much more in this; if we lay not a strict charge upon them. We are so void of a pure and entire love to God, that we have no mind to those duties. Wants will spur us on to Prayer, but a pure love to God can only spirit us to Praise. We are more ready to reach out a hand, to receive his Mercies, than to lift up our heart to recognize them after the receipt.

2. We are apt to forget divine benefits, our Souls must therefore be often jogg'd, and rous'd up. All that is within me, every power of my Rational, and every Affection of my Sensitive part. All his Faculties, all his Thoughts. Our Souls will hang back from God in every duty, much more in this; if we lay not a strict charge upon them. We are so void of a pure and intire love to God, that we have no mind to those duties. Wants will spurr us on to Prayer, but a pure love to God can only spirit us to Praise. We are more ready to reach out a hand, to receive his Mercies, than to lift up our heart to recognize them after the receipt.

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. 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. Verse 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. V.4. Who redeems thy life from destruction, who Crowns thee with loving kindness and tender Mercies. He makes his progress to the mercy manifested to the Church in the protection of it against, or delivery of it from oppressions. Verse 6. The Lord executeth Righteousness and Judgment, for all that are oppressed. In the discovery of