CONTENTS
The same delightful subject is continued through this Psalm as in the two preceding, but in a more general way. All men are called upon, in the review of divine goodness, to praise the Lord; and the redeemed, in a yet more awakened manner. God's mercies are instanced in a great variety of ways, both by sea and land, in sickness and in health, and brought forward as so many motives to praise him.
The Psalm opens with giving a general invitation to all men to praise the Lord. And there is enough in every man's life, the most unworthy the most unawakened, to prompt him to this service: for everything short of hell is mercy. And if the sinner that is living without God, could but be prevailed upon to pause and ask himself, Wherefore it is that a life such as his is still in mercy lengthened? Wherefore the bounty which he lives only to abuse, is still vouchsafed him? Such a thought, if blessed of God, might cause the tear to fall, and the heart to lift itself in praise!