Psalms 103

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM CIII.—Our hearts need to be much encouraged and excited, even to the most proper and most delightful exercises. And in dealing with God our hearts ought to be wholly engaged. But how shameful it is that we ever forget, that we so early forget, his mercies!—his mercies so great, so necessary, so numerous, so connected, so everlasting!—his unbounded compassion to us, who are so mean, so frail, so polluted!—his free, full, and everlasting, pardons should humble our hearts, and animate us to holy fear, love, and obedience. And, while all his creatures in heaven and earth concur to bless and serve him, surely we above all, whom Christ hath redeemed by his blood, should never be silent, never be slothful! 1