1. Great is the Lord. How great Jehovah is essentially none can conceive; but we can all see
that he is great in the deliverance of his people, great in their esteem who
are delivered, and great in the hearts of those enemies whom he scatters by
their own fears. Instead of the mad cry of Ephesus, “Great is Diana,” we bear
the reasonable, demonstrable, self-evident testimony, “Great is Jehovah.” And greatly to be praised. According to his nature should his worship be. It
cannot be too constant, to laudatory, too earnest, too reverential, too
sublime. In the city of our God. If all the world beside renounced
Jehovah’s worship, the chosen people in his favored city would continue to
adore him, for in their midst and on their behalf his glorious power has been
so manifestly revealed. In the church the Lord is to be extolled though all the
nations rage against him. Jerusalem was the especial abode of the God of
Israel, the seat of the theocratic government, and the center of prescribed
worship; thus is the church the place of divine manifestation. In the mountain of his holiness. Zion was the most renowned part of this city,
mentioned as a synonym for the city itself. The church of God should be adorned
with holiness, her members being partakers of the holiness of God. Only by holy
people can the Lord be fittingly praised, and they should be incessantly
occupied with his worship.
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