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Notes, Chiefly Intended to Point Out the Correspondence Between the Portions [of the Psalms] Selected and the Service of the Day
Notes Chiefly Intended to Point Out the Correspondence Between the Portions Selected and the Service of the Day - of the Psalms Author:Notes General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: -- v. 15. The lions, 8fc.) A figurative term, to signify that as the roaring of those beasts is a natural sign that they want food, so God the author of nature and general provider for all things answereth them, as Job xxxix. 13. It is generally believed that the Moon rises about fifty minutes later every day than on the preceding; but this is true only with regard to places on the Equator. In places of considerable latitude there is a remarkable difference, especially in the harvest time, with which farmers were better acquainted than astronomers, till of late ; and gratefully ascribed the early rising of the Full Moon at that time of the year to the goodness of God, not doubting that he had ordered it so on purpose to give them an immediate supply of Moon-light after Sun-set, for their greater conveniency in reaping the fruits of the Earth. In this instance of the Harvest Moon, as in many others discoverable by Astronomy, the wisdom and beneficence of the Deity is conspicuous, who really ordered the course of the moon so, as to bestow more or less light on all parts of the Earth as their several circumstances and seasons render it more or less serviceable. Ferguson. Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to HIM; whose sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints. Ye forests, bend j ye harvests, wave to HIM; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart, As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Thomson. Ps. xxvii. p. 91. Prayer and Hope. v. 14. An exhortation to patience; -- that we should patiently " wait on the Lord," till th...« less