Let Israel now say, that his mercy [endureth] for
ever.
] Let such who have had an experience of it acknowledge and
declare it to others; not only believe in it with their hearts,
and privately give thanks for it, but with the mouth make
confession of it to the glory of divine grace; not only literal
Israel, whom the Lord brought out of Egypt, led and fed in the
wilderness, and settled in the land of Canaan; and to whom the
law and the services of God, the covenants and promises, word and
ordinances, belonged; and who now were so happy under the
government of such a king as David; but also the spiritual Israel
of God, the whole Israel of God, Jews and Gentiles, under the
Gospel dispensation; the Israel whom God has chosen, Christ has
redeemed, and the Spirit effectually calls and sanctifies; such
who are Israelites indeed, who have been encouraged to hope in
the Lord, and in his mercy, and are made partakers of it; these
should speak of the grace and mercy of God, and the continuance
of it, for the encouragement of others.