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Psalms 96

1 An exhortation both to the Jewes and Gentiles to praise God for his mercie. And this specially ought to be referred to the kingdom of Christ.
1.Sing aunto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
2.Sing unto the Lord, and praise his Name: declare his salvation from daie to daie.
3.Declare his glorie among all nations, and his wonders among all people.
4.For the Lord is bgreat and much to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
5.For all the gods of the people are ^idols: but the Lord cmade the heavens.
6.dStrength and glory are before him: power and beautie are in his Sanctuarie.
7.Give unto the Lord, ye families of the people: give unto the Lord glorie and epower.
8.Give unto the Lord the glorie of his Name: bring fan offering, and enter into his courts.
9.Worship the Lord in the glorious Sanctuary: tremble before him all the earth.
10.Saie among the gnations, The Lord reigneth: surely the world shalbe stable, and not move, and he shal judge the people hin righteousness.
11.Let the heavens rejoyce, and let the earth be glad: let the sea roar, and all that therein is.
12.Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it: let all the itrees of the wood then rejoyce
13.Before the Lord, for he commeth, for he commeth to judge the earth: he wil judge the world with righteousness, and the people in his truth.

Notes

1-a.
The Prophet shows that the time shal come, that all nations shall have occasion to praise the Lord for the revealing of his Gospel.
4-b.
Seeing he will reveal himself to all nations contrary to their own expectation, they ought all to worship him contrary to their own imaginations, and only as he has appointed.
5-^.
Or, vanities.
5-c.
Then the idols, or whatsoever made not the heavens, are not God.
6-d.
God cannot be known, but by his strength and glory: the signs whereof appear in his Sanctuary.
7-e.
As by experience you see that it is only due unto him.
8-f.
By offering up yourselves wholly unto God, declare that you worship him only.
10-g.
He prophesies that the Gentiles shall be partakers with the Jews of God’s promise.
10-h.
He shall regenerate them anew with his Spirit, and restore them to the image of God.
12-i.
If the insensible creatures shall have cause to rejoice, when God appears, much more we, from whom he has taken malediction and sin.