O give thanks unto the LORD, for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
Ver. 1. O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good] He is good, and doeth good, Psalms 119:68, not to his Israel only, as is set forth in the two foregoing psalms, but to all mankind, which is Divini ingenii cura, as one saith, whatever atheists and epicures say to the contrary, denying a Divine providence: witness that profane distich of theirs:
Nempe nihil positum est, et sors incerta vagatur,
Fertque refertque vices, et habent mortalia casum.
For his mercy endureth for ever ] Notwithstanding men's many and mighty provocations.