grace Yet praise him, not by words only, but by that
perfect affiance which he calls for at your hands ; and which is necessary, in order that you may realize the blessings he is exalted to bestow.]
2, Let his voice control every emotion of your souls —
[If he speak by thunders and lightnings, he speaks also by his word : and if by them he displays his power, by this he reveals his grace. Notice particularly how, in the psalm before us, every thing is ascribed to his voice. And siu'e I am, that, if you will listen to the stiU small voice of his word, there is not a blessing which you can possibly need, but it shall be imparted in the richest abundance to your souls.]
Ps. XXX. 5. His anger endureth hut a moment: in his favour is life : weeping may endure for a night, hut joy cometh in the morning.
IN the title affixed to this psalm, it is called " A psalm, or song, at the dedication of the house of David." If we understand this as referring to a dedication of his house on his first entrance upon it% there is nothing in the psalm at all suitable to the occasion : but if we refer it to the period of his return to it after the death of Absalom, we shall find a suitableness in it to the circumstances in which he had been placed^. He had been driven from his throne at a time when he appeared to be most firmly fixed upon it; and had been in most imminent danger of his life, from the hands of his own favourite, but rebellious son, Absalom. God, however, had merci- fully interposed for his deliverance, and had restored him once more in safety to his own house. To purify his house from the pollution it had sustained from Absalom, he dedicated it afresh ; and penned this psalm, it should seem, for the occasion. But, as this is a matter of conjecture only, and not of cer- tainty, I shall wave all further allusion to either of the occasions ; and take the words of my text simply as expressing a most weighty truth, which is at all
a 2 Sam. V. 11. ''2 Sam. xx. 5.