A plain discourse upon uprightness showing the properties and privileges of an upright man…A plain discourse upon uprightness shewing the properties and priviledges of an upright man…

Holy David, being near the shore, here looks on his former Dangers and Deliverances with a thankful heart, and writes this Psalm to bless the Lord: As if each of you that are grown into years, should review your lives, and observe the wonderful Goodness and Providence of God, towards you; and then sit down, and write a modest Memorial of his most remarkable mercies, for the comfort of your selves and your posterity. An excellent practise: What a comfort would it be for you to read how good your God was to your Father, or Grandfather, that are dead and gone? So would your children rejoice in the Lord, upon the reading of his Goodness to you, and you cannot have a better pattern for this, than holy David who wrote this Psalm, when he was threescore and seven years old: when he had out-lived most of his troubles, and almost ready for his journey to his Father in heaven, he resolves to leave this good Report of him upon Earth.

Holy David, being near the shore, here looks on his former Dangers and Deliverances with a thankful heart, and writes this Psalm to bless the Lord: As if each of you that are grown into years, should review your lives, and observe the wonderful Goodness and Providence of God, towards you; and then sit down, and write a modest Memorial of his most remarkable mercies, for the comfort of your selves and your posterity. An excellent practise: What a comfort would it be for you to read how good your God was to your Father, or Grandfather, that are dead and gone? So would your children rejoyce in the Lord, upon the reading of his Goodness to you, and you cannot have a better pattern for this, than holy David who wrote this Psalm, when he was threescore and seven years old: when he had out-liv'd most of his troubles, and almost ready for his journey to his Father in heaven, he resolves to leave this good Report of him upon Earth.

And I pray mark how he begins; he set• ⟨p. 3⟩not up Trophies to himself, but Triumphs in his God. I will love thee, O Lord my strength. As the love Of God is the beginning of all our mercies, so love To God should be the end and effect of them all. As the stream leads us to the spring, so all the gifts of God must lead us to the giver of them. Lord, thou hast saved me from sickness, I will love thee; from Death and Hell, I will love thee; on me thou hast bestowed Grace and comfort, I will love thee, O Lord my strength. And after he had heaped on God all the sweet names he could devise, vers. 2. As a true Saint thinks he can never speak too well of God, or too ill of himself, then he begins his Narrative.