TAU.
There is but little variation in this portion from the former. Jesus taught his disciples, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint, Luke 18:1; and here he sets the example. I do not think it necessary to enlarge upon this portion, nor indeed, after what hath been said, to detain the Reader with any further observations by way of comment. And shall only from one general reflection upon the whole, desire to close this Psalm, with recommending both the Reader and the few imperfect remarks interspersed in the review of it, together to the grace of God wherein we stand. If this beautiful Psalm be, according to the ideas here given of it, designed as specially looking to, and descriptive of, the person, offices, character, and relations of the Lord Jesus Christ; I shall find cause to bless God if such views as have been offered tend, as the Holy Ghost plainly in that case designed this psalm, to endear the Lord Jesus more and more to the heart, and thereby to form him therein the hope of glory. In this case the meditations suggested so often by the statutes, testimonies, precepts judgments, and the like, which run through the whole Psalm, will have a still greater tendency to endear Jesus and his fulness to the soul. And while we make him; what the w hole Bible makes him, the Alpha and Omega; the beginning and the end; the first and the last; the author and finisher of salvation; we shall be following up God the Father's will in his appointment of Christ as the one ordinance of salvation to sinners; and God the Spirit's design in glorifying the Lord Christ in all. Reader! the Lord merci fully grant these blessed ends may be accomplished, from our review of this sweet Psalm; and blessed be our Jesus for manifesting himself to us through every part of it, that God in all things may be glorified, through Jesus Christ! Amen.