The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. ] To hear its worthless inhabitants complain, one would think that God dispensed evil, not good.
To examine the operation of his hand, every thing is marked with mercy and there is no place where his goodness does not appear. The overflowing kindness of God fills the earth. Even the iniquities of men are rarely a bar to his goodness: he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends his rain upon the just and the unjust.
Verses 1-11 - Holy joy is the heart and soul of praise, and that is here pressed upo the righteous. Thankful praise is the breath and language of holy joyReligioussongs are proper expressions of thankful praise. Ever endowment we possess, should be employed with all our skill an earnestness in God's service. His promises are all wise and good. Hi word is right, and therefore we are only in the right when we agre with it. His works are all done in truth. He is the righteousLord therefore loveth righteousness. What a pity it is that this earth which is so full of the proofs and instances of God's goodness, shoul be so empty of his praises; and that of the multitudes who live upo his bounty, there are so few who live to his glory! What the Lord does he does to purpose; it stands fast. He overrules all the counsels of men, and makes them serve his counsels; even that is fulfilled, whic to us is most surprising, the eternalcounsel of God, nor can any thin prevent its coming to pass.
