Psalms 101

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM CI.—The lot of saints on earth is a strange mixture of mercies and judgments. But all of them, taken in their connection and tendency, are to be improved as matter of praise and thanksgiving. Fellowship with, and influences from, God must strengthen and animate us to every holy practice. Serious godliness is the most substantial wisdom; and to act for God in the religious management of families, kingdoms, or in other relative stations, is a noted branch of it. With the utmost care ought men, by whatever power they have, to discourage every thing wicked, and to encourage every thing virtuous and holy. But it is in vain to attempt instructing or reforming others, if we do not set them an example in our own practice