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

God in the night season, as well as in the day, gives his people matter of joy.

Night-mercies deserve and call for day-praises; especially two sorts of night-mercies; First, Night preservations, (Psal. 3.6.) I laid me down and slept, for thou Lord makest me to dwell in safety. The night is subject to many dangers;¹ The Septuagint render fully to this sense; Who giveth watch or preservation in the night; that's matter of praise and thanksgiving to God. Secondly, he gives us cause of praise and singing, not only for preserving our lives while we sleep in the night, but for refreshing us with sleep in the night, (Psal. 127.2.) So he giveth his beloved sleep. The Lord gives us not only safety, but sleep. Sweet sleep is a great mercy, (Eccl. 5.12.) The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or muc•; and they who sleep sweetly get refreshing and renewings of strength after all their former labours, for new labours. So tha•, if we take night properly for the night time, there is much occasion of rejoicing given by God to mankind in general, and more peculiarly to his faithful servants, in reference to those common mercies of bodily safety, and the return of natural strength and spirits.

Night-mercies deserve and call for day-praises; especially two sorts of night-mercies; First, Night preservations, (Psal. 3.6.) I laid me down and slept, for thou Lord makest me to dwell in safety. The night is subj•ct to many dangers;¹