Psalms 136

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM CXXXVI.—Alas! how averse are mankind to the infinitely reasonable and delightful duty of praise and thanksgiving! They need repeated calls to it, even after it has been attended with remarkable blessings. God’s mercy and goodness delightfully fill his nature and works, the most awful and tremendous not excepted. And stupid and careless observers must they be of creatures and events, who do not every where perceive the manifold and everlasting mercy and kindness of God. Past mercies ought never to be forgotten, nor present ones overlooked; and all should issue in repeated returns of grateful praise