An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Others, Secondly, conjecture, that God may be said to give the sorrowful and oppressed ones songs in the night, by the singing of birds in the night, of that bird especially which hath its name from singing in the night, the Nightingale. Some insist much upon these interpretations. It is, I grant, a great mercy of God that when the Sun is down, we have Moon-light and Star-light, and that in the night we have the innocent harmless birds to sing and make us pleasant melody. But leaving these, we may take the words in a double notion; First, Properly; Secondly, Metaphorically.

Others, Secondly, conjecture, that God may be said to give the sorrowful and oppressed ones songs in the night, by the singing of birds in the night, of that bird especially which hath its name from singing in the night, the Nightingal. Some insist much upon these interpretations. It is, I grant, a great mercy of God that when the Sun is down, we have Moon-light and Star-light, and that in the night we have the innocent harmless birds to sing and make us pleasant melody. But leaving these, we may take the words in a double notion; First, Properly; Secondly, Metaphorically.

Properly, and so to give songs in the night, as the night is taken for night time, imports the goodness of God to man, not only in the day time, but in the night.

Hence Note.