Psalms 108

Psalm 57:10: God's mercy is great above the heavens. Psalm 108:4: God is represented as a king, and a rainbow was about his throne (Revelation 4:2-3). The rainbow was an emblem of mercy.

And the word raised is proper for a second reason, because in such mournings, it was customary to rise up very early, or early to raise up one another. As David speaking of musical rejoicing (Psalm 108:2) says, Awake, psaltery and harp, I myself will awake early; the Hebrew is v…

What is the holy frame and posture in which I should keep my heart? Keep your heart awake (Song of Solomon 5:2): my heart wakes (Psalm 108:2): I myself will awake early. Though we have been sluggish, yet now it is high time to awake out of sleep (Romans 13:11).

Let me tell you — you who refuse consolation, are not fit persons to praise God: it is a kind of solecism, to praise God with a sad heart. I will sing praises (Psalm 108:1). It is more proper to sing praises, than to weep them.

When we go to enumerate God's mercies, we must (with David) confess ourselves to be nonplussed, Psalm 40. 5. Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, they cannot be reckoned up in Order. And as God's mercies are past numbering, so they are past measurin…

Canis ad Nilum; like the dogs of Nile, that lap and away; but there must be in meditation a fixing the heart upon the object, a steeping the thoughts; carnal Christians are like quicksilver, which cannot be made to fix; their thoughts are roving up and down, and will not fix; li…