Psalms 136

God's mercy is not like the widow's oil, which ran a while and then ceased (2 Kings 4:6): overflowing, ever-flowing. God's mercy as it is without bounds, so without bottom (Psalm 136): His mercy endures forever. God never cuts off the entail of mercy from the elect.

Exquisite lawyers love to wrestle with niceties and difficulties in the law, to show their skill the more. God's wisdom is never at a loss, but when providences are darkest, now appears the morning star of deliverance (Psalm 136:23). Who remembered us in our low condition.

3. God's mercy is eternal (Psalm 103:17): The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting. It is repeated twenty-six times in one Psalm, His mercy endures for ever (Psalm 136). The souls of the blessed shall be ever bathing themselves in this sweet and pleasant ocean of…

(1.) Our own skill and industry. God is the giver; he gives daily bread (Psalm 136:25); he gives riches (Deuteronomy 8:18): "He it is that gives you power to get wealth." Or, (2.) We often ascribe the praise to second causes, and forget God.

And if you will needs, that being a city, it must be built, be it so; for God is the builder of it. This doctrine is evident in the Scriptures, Psalm 136:5. God by his wisdom made the Heavens.

When you stand, let it excite you to love and thankfulness; nothing maketh the Saints love God more than the unchangeableness of his love: When they see themselves safe in the midst of weaknesses, and Satan's daily assaults, it does much endear God to their souls. Certainly Dani…

As if he should say, The greatness of this work shall be such, that it shall far surpass your hope. It is no astonishment then that is conceived through some fear of danger or calamity; but such as we see to happen in great wonders, which surpass the reach of our understandings:…

Who has not with joy, delight, and raised affections, gone over the old preservations of the Church in former years? How does David run them over with admiration, closing every stop with, His mercy endures for ever (Psalm 136)? And for things to come, as yet in the promise only,…

In the consideration of the works of God, to admire his greatness, power and wisdom in them, or to set forth his praise for them, it is usual in the Scripture to distribute them into parts, the more to fix the contemplation of the mind upon them, and to excite it to faith, admir…

God is to be praised for the least of his mercies here, but he is to be admired in the glory of his rich grace in heaven. We read Psalm 136. God is praised twenty five times for his mercies, but the conclusion of all is, Praise the God of Heaven, for his mercies endure for ever;…

The very air we breathe in, the bread we eat, our common blessings, be they never so mean, we have them all from grace, and all from the tender mercy of the Lord. (Psalm 136:25). you have there the story of the notable effects of God's mercy, and he concludes it thus: Who gives…

When we use many words of the same kind and signification, and it be out of vehemence and fervency of spirit, it is not forbidden. 2. This repetition is not to be disproved, when there is a special emphasis, and spiritual elegancy in it, as Psalm 136, you have it twenty six time…

The admirableness and comely variety of God's works does easily offer it to our thoughts. In the frame of the work you may easily find out a wise workman (Psalm 136:5): "Sing praises to him that by wisdom has made the heaven and the earth, for his mercy endures forever" — so als…

And partly too, because he does not waste by giving, his mercy endures for ever. The same reason is given for all those mercies (Psalm 136): why the Lord chose a church, maintains his church, gives daily bread — his mercy endures for ever. God is where he was at first, he gives…

3rdly, His goodness and mercy — they are eternal. Psalm 136 — it is often repeated, For the mercy of the Lord endures forever. It is true à parte antè, his mercy did not begin of late, but was towards us, before we or the world were; from all eternity we were thought upon, that…

Inasmuch therefore as these who got the victory over the Beast, are said to have sung the Song of the Lamb, and this Song of the Lamb is expressly fetched from several words of praise to the Lamb, in several Psalms of David; one of these two things (if not both) will from hence…

And this must needs be proper to God alone, by whose power, things that are, were once produced out of things that did not appear. The conclusion therefore must needs be this, which David confesses in the Psalm: God only does wondrous things (Psalm 136:4), that is, works simply…

Thirdly, we should make this Omnipotence of God the object of our trust and confidence. This is the most proper use we can make of this doctrine, as David does in this Psalm; and this was used for a form of blessing the people in the name of God: "The Lord that made heaven and e…

But shall not the consolations of God be more to you, than all the evil that can befall you; these are but pledges to you, that God delights in your souls, if you were without chastisements, you were bastards, and no sons; indeed, and consider what he means to do, will not this…

Psalm 92, which is a psalm of praise, was prescribed a song for the Sabbath day: and Psalm 102 prescribes a prayer for the afflicted when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the Lord. Psalm 136 was sung after David's time. Hezekiah the king, and the princes com…