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

God by his good Spirit doth often suggest sweet meditations and comfortable thoughts to his people in the night.

In the night the Lord minds his servants either of such mercies as they have already received, or of such, as according to his promise, he is ready to, or will surely bestow, that so they may be busied in that heavenly work of praising him, and rejoicing in him, when they awake or cannot sleep. This was Davids experience, (Psal. 17.3.) Thou hast visited me in the night. Men use to visit us in the day when we are up or awake. But (saith David) God gives me visits in the night, when I am in bed he gives me many a song, or makes me to rejoice. When we are in our retirements, or freest from the hurry of worldly businesses and enjoyments, then we are in the fittest posture for the entertainment and enjoyment of God. The Lord visits his servants in the night, not only (as David there) to try them, or as elsewhere to instruct them, but to com•o•t them, as David was assured, (Psal. 42.8.) The Lord will command his loving kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me. That is, a song concerning him. I will sing and rejoice, even in the night time, because of the goodness and kindness of God to me in the day. The experience of Asaph, or of David, communicated in that Psalm to Asaph, gives further proof of this, (Psal. 77.6.) where having said, (v. 1.) I cried unto God with my voice, and he gave ear unto me: he adds, (v. 6.) I call to remembrance my song in the night; that is, those occasions of joy and singing which God hath heretofore given me: These songs were sweeter ⟨p. 73⟩to me than sleep. As it showeth an excellent frame of spirit to remember the Commandments of God in the night, which David also professed as his practise, (