Psalms:147

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* Praise ye the LORD : for [it is ] good to sing praises unto our God ; for [it is ] (note :)He shows in which we ought to exercise ourselves continually , and to take our pastime : that is , in praising God .(:note ) pleasant ; [and ] praise is comely . * The LORD doth build up (note :)Because the Lord is the founder of the Church , it cannot be destroyed , though the members of it are dispersed and seem as it were for a time to be cut off .(:note ) Jerusalem : he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel . * He healeth the (note :)With affliction , or sorrow for sin .(:note ) broken in heart , and bindeth up their wounds . * He (note :)Though it seems incredible to man , that God should assemble his Church , being so dispersed , yet nothing can be too hard to him that can number and name all the stars .(:note ) telleth the number of the stars ; he calleth them all by [their ] names . * Great is our Lord , and great is his power : his wisdome is infinite . * The LORD lifteth up the meek : he casteth the wicked down to the (note :)For the more high that the wicked climb the greater is their fall in the end .(:note ) ground . * Sing vnto the Lord with prayse : sing vpon the harpe vnto our God , * Who (note :)He shows by the example of God 's mighty power , goodness , and wisdom , that he can never lack just opportunity to praise God .(:note ) covereth the heaven with clouds , who prepareth rain for the earth , who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains . * He giveth to the beast his food , [and ] to the young ravens which (note :)For their crying is as it were a confession of their need , which cannot be relieved , but by God alone , then if God show himself mindful of the most contemptible souls , can he suffer them to die with famine , whom he has assured of life everlasting ?(:note ) cry . * He delighteth not in the (note :)Though to use lawful means is both profitable and pleases God , yet to put our trust in them is to defraud God of his honour .(:note ) strength of the horse : he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man . * But the Lorde deliteth in them that feare him , and attende vpon his mercie . * Prayse the Lorde , O Ierusalem : prayse thy God , O Zion . * For he hath (note :)He not only furnishes his Church with all that is necessary but preserves also the same , and makes it strong against all outward force .(:note ) strengthened the bars of thy gates ; he hath blessed thy children within thee . * He setteth peace in thy borders , and satisfieth thee with the floure of wheate . * He sendeth forth his (note :)His secret working in all creatures is as a command to keep them in order and to give them moving and force .(:note ) commandment [upon ] earth : his word runneth very For immediately and without resisting all things obey him . swiftly . * He giueth snowe like wooll , and scattereth the hoare frost like ashes . * He casteth foorth his yce like morsels : who can abide the colde thereof ? * He sendeth his worde and melteth them : he causeth his winde to blowe , and the waters flowe . * He sheweth his (note :)As before he called God 's secret working in all his creatures his word : so he means by this his word the doctrine of life everlasting , which he has left to his Church as a precious treasure .(:note ) word unto Jacob , his statutes and his judgments unto Israel . * He hath not dealt so with any nation : and [as for his ] judgments , they have not (note :)The cause of this difference is God 's free mercy , which has elected his in his Son Christ Jesus to salvation : and his just judgment , by which he has appointed the reprobate to eternal damnation .(:note ) known them . Praise ye the LORD .

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