Several women in the Old Testament history, are proofs of this mercy: and the New Testament saints, no doubt, could produce also their Hannahs, and Rachels, and Elizabeths, 1Sa_1:2; 1Sa_1:19-20; Gen_30:1-2; Gen_30:22-23; Luk_1:7; Luk_1:13; Luk_1:57. And what indeed is the promise given to the Gentile church, but that, more shall be the children of the desolate, than the children of the married wife? Isaiah 54:1. These are sweet testimonies in proof. And the psalm therefore ends as it began, with Hallelujah. The Lord give grace both to him that now writes, and to him that reads, so to begin, and so to end it. Praise ye the Lord.
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READER, let you and I seek for grace to catch the heavenly flame, and while the Holy Ghost is thus calling upon the church to bless the Lord, that from the rising of the sun to its going down, his name shalt be great among the Gentiles, oh may we not be silent, morn or even; but with the dawn of day, as well as when the shades of night close in upon the earth, may we bless the Lord, and call upon all that is within us to praise his holy name.
And, oh! what unnumbered motives and arguments arise in every direction, within, without, and all around, to be earnest and alive in this blessed service! Think, Reader, of the condescension of God the Father, in sending his Son to be the Saviour of the world! Think of the grace of God the Spirit, in making the bodies of the saints his temple. And think of that grace and love in God the Son, who so loved us as to give himself for us! Reader, a whole eternity will not be long enough for praising, blessing, and adoring Jehovah, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for these things. Oh! reader, let each of us say, What hath God wrought, in remembering us in our low estate; for his mercy endureth forever! Help us, Lord, to praise thee, to love thee, to live to thee; that every day we may increase, with all the household of faith, in praising the God of our salvation, upon earth, until we come to the everlasting enjoyment of the Lord, and the view of him in glory, to praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, to all eternity. Amen.