Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. Your people desire to set their seal to this, and to acknowledge that you are overflowing goodness. O blessed God, you have remembered both our temporal and our spiritual wants; you have lifted us up from the gates of the grave, delivered our soul from death, our eyes from tears, and our feet from falling.
You have dealt well with your servants, O Lord, according to your Word. There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, there is none that deals so bountifully; for as high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are his thoughts above our thoughts and his ways above our ways. Our soul, therefore, blesses God the Lord, and all that is in us is stirred up his holy name to magnify and bless. “Bless the Lord” is the utterance of our inmost soul this morning; “from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, let the Lord’s name be praised.”