5. What a change is here! The rain is
over and gone, and the time of the singing of birds is come. The mercy-seat has
so refreshed the poor weeper, that he clears his throat for a song. David
begins many of his psalms sighing, and ends them singing; and others he begins
in joy and ends in sorrow. All the powers of his enemies had not driven the
psalmist from his stronghold. As the shipwrecked mariner clings to the mast, so
did David cling to his faith; he neither could nor would give up his confidence
in the Lord his God. O that we may profit by his example, and hold by our faith
as by our very life! My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. Listen to
the music which faith makes in the soul. There is joy and feasting within
doors, for a glorious guest has come, and the fared calf is killed.
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