How very lovely and blessed doth this Sabbath Psalm, or Song, end? For what is the whole of it; nay, what is the whole purport of redemption? Is it not to show forth the faithfulness, the covenant faithfulness, truth, love, mercy, grace, and everlasting kindness of Jehovah, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; to manifest that he is the Rock, and that his work is perfect? He hath blessed, and he doth bless, and he ever will bless, the Church in Jesus. Here he glorifies his holy name. And here he fully proves that there is no unrighteousness in him. Amen.
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SEE, my soul, what a gracious provision the Holy Ghost hath made for thee to sing thy song on the sabbath-day! Never, surely, wilt thou be at a loss for a hymn of praise to carol aloud the blessedness of the sabbath, as long as this Psalm riseth to thy view. Behold! what a glorious subject it openeth, in the celebration of Jehovah's faithfulness. Think what fatherly love thy God and Father in Christ Jesus manifested towards the church, and towards thee, and every individual member of Christ's mystical body, when giving his dear Son as the glorious Head of the Church, the very ordinance, the word, the sabbath, and the rest, in grace here, and glory hereafter! And think what a sabbath Jesus is himself, and what a rest to every weary soul! My soul! wilt thou not flourish under this Palm-tree of thy Lord, and spread abroad under his gracious shade and his fruitful blessings? And think how beneficent is the Holy Ghost in all his quickening influences and gracious teachings, to lead thee on the sabbaths to the ordinances of Jesus, and there to shed abroad the love of God in thine heart, and direct thee into the patient waiting for Jesus Christ. Hail! holy, holy, holy, undivided Three in One, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! May every sabbath which showeth forth thy faithfulness find my soul resting more and more upon the Lord our righteousness, and testifying my earnest waiting for that everlasting sabbath of rest which is above, and which remaineth for the people of God!