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Psalms 136

1 A most earnest exhortation to give thanks unto God for the creation and governance of all things which standeth in confessing that he giveth us all of his mere liberality.
1.Praise ye the Lord, because he is good: for his amercie endureth for ever.
2.Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercie endureth for ever.
3.Praise ye the Lord of lords: for his mercie endureth for ever.
4.Which only doeth great wonders: for his mercie endureth for ever.
5.Which by his wisdom made the heavens: for his mercie for ever:
6.Which hathe stretched out the earth upon the waters: for his bmercie endureth for ever:
7.Which made the great lights: for his mercie endureth for ever:
8.As the sunne to rule the daie: for his mercie endureth for ever:
9.The moone and the stares to governe the night: for his mercie for ever:
10.Which smote Egypt with their first borne (for his mercie for ever)
11.And cbroght out Israél from among them (for his mercie for ever)
12.With a mighty hand and dstretched out arme: for his mercie for ever:
13.Which divided the red Sea in two partes: for his mercie for ever:
14.And made Israél to pass through the middes of it: for his mercie endureth for ever:
15.And overthrewe Pharaóh and his hoste in the red Sea: for his mercie endureth for ever:
16.Which led his people through the ewildernes: for his mercie for ever:
17.Which smote great Kings: for his mercie endureth for ever:
18.And slewe fmighty Kings: for his mercie endureth for ever:
19.As Sihón King of the Amorites: for his mercie endureth for ever:
20.And Og the King of Bashán: for his mercie endureth for ever:
21.And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercie endureth for ever:
22.Even an heritage unto Israél his servant: for his mercie for ever:
23.Which remembred us in our gbase estate: for his mercie for ever:
24.And hath rescued us from our oppressors: for his mercie for ever:
25.Which giveth foode to all hflesh: for his mercie endureth for ever.
26.iPraise ye the God of heaven: for his mercie endureth for ever.

Notes

1-a.
By this repetition he shows that the least of God’s benefits bind us to thanksgiving: but chiefly his mercy, which is principally declared towards his Church.
6-b.
This was a common kind of thanksgiving, which the whole people used, when they had received any benefit of God, as 2 Chron. 7.6 and 20.21: meaning that God was not only merciful to their fathers, but also continued the same to their posterity.
11-c.
God’s merciful providence toward man appears in all his creatures, but chiefly in that that he delivered his Church from the thraldome of their enemies.
12-d.
In doing such a work as was never done before, nor that any other could do.
16-e.
Where for the space of forty years he showed infinite and most strange wonders.
18-f.
Declaring thereby that no power nor authority was so dear unto him, as the love of his Church.
23-g.
In our greatest affliction and slavery, when we looked for nothing less then to have had any succour.
25-h.
Seeing that God provides, even for the beasts: much more has he care over his.
26-i.
Seeing that all ages have had most plain testimonies of God’s benefits.