1. My heart. There is no writing like
that dictated by the heart. Heartless hymns are insults to heaven. Isinditing a good matter. A good heart will only be content with good
thoughts. The word may be read “overfloweth,” “boileth,” or “bubbleth up,” denoting the warmth of
the writer’s love, the fullness of his heart, and the consequent richness and
glow of his utterance. It is a sad thing when the heart is cold with a good
matter, and worse when it is warm with a bad matter, but incomparably well when
a warm heart and a good matter meet together. Oh that we may often offer to God
an acceptable oblation fresh from hearts warmed with gratitude and admiration. I speak of the things which I have made touching the King. This song has the
King for its only subject, and for the King’s honor alone was it composed. The
psalmist calls his poem his works, or things which he had made. We are not to
offer to the Lord that which cost us nothing. Good material deserves good
workmanship. We should well digest in our heart’s affections and our mind’s
meditations any discourse or poem in which we speak of one so great and
glorious as our Royal Lord. The psalmist wrote of what he had personally tasted
and handled concerning the King. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer,
not so much for rapidity, for there the tongue always has the preference, but
for exactness, elaboration, deliberation, and skillfullness of expression.
Seldom are the excited utterances of the mouth equal in real weight and
accuracy to the written words of a thoughtful penman, but here the writer
speaks as correctly as a practiced writer; his utterances are no ephemeral
sentences.
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