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(a) He shows in which we ought to exercise ourselves continually, and to take our pastime: that is, in praising God.
(b) Because the Lord is the founder of the Church, it cannot be destroyed, though the members of it are dispersed and seem as it were for a time to be cut off.
(c) With affliction, or sorrow for sin.
(d) Though it seems incredible to man, that God should assemble his Church, being so dispersed, yet nothing can be too hard to him that can number and name all the stars.
(e) For the more high that the wicked climb the greater is their fall in the end.
(f) He shows by the example of God's mighty power, goodness, and wisdom, that he can never lack just opportunity to praise God.
(g) For their crying is as it were a confession of their need, which cannot be relieved, but by God alone, then if God show himself mindful of the most contemptible souls, can he suffer them to die with famine, whom he has assured of life everlasting?
(h) Though to use lawful means is both profitable and pleases God, yet to put our trust in them is to defraud God of his honour.
(i) He not only furnishes his Church with all that is necessary but preserves also the same, and makes it strong against all outward force.
(k) His secret working in all creatures is as a command to keep them in order and to give them moving and force.(l) For immediately and without resisting all things obey him.
(m) As before he called God's secret working in all his creatures his word: so he means by this his word the doctrine of life everlasting, which he has left to his Church as a precious treasure.
(n) The cause of this difference is God's free mercy, which has elected his in his Son Christ Jesus to salvation: and his just judgment, by which he has appointed the reprobate to eternal damnation.
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Beza, Theodore. "Commentary on Psalms 147:4". "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsb/psalms-147.html. 1599-1645.