Psalms 95

REFLECTIONS UPON PSALM XCV.—God richly deserves our highest and most cordial praise. And we should invite one another to this blessed employ. How it is he, possessed of every necessary, infinite, and eternal excellency! How glorious his formation of all things, and his extensive dominion over them! How delightful and effective of blessings unnumbered, is his new covenant relation to men!—But, if he be our Saviour and King, it is proper, it is necessary, that he be obedient subjects. To none but such is he the author of eternal salvation. To day, without a moment’s delay, we ought to hear his voice in the gospel, to receive the offers of his grace. However slightly men pass over their sins, they are highly provoking in God’s sight. And disbelief of his promises is one of the greatest insults that we can put upon him. That heart is hardened indeed, from the great and precious promises of the gospel cannot affect. Let us take warning by the ruin of others, that we fall not after the same example of unbelief. Though God bear long with us, he will not bear always. The mercies which we have received from him, as well as the wilfulness of our ignorance, and our love to our errors, will fearfully aggravate our sin. And dreadful will our case, if by his irrevocable oath he once exclude us from his new covenant, is celestial rest, on account of our despising it when offered to us in the gospel