We must stir up ourselves to praise God with the consideration both of the reason and of the encouragement we have to praise him. › We must be particular in our thanksgivings to God

3. For signal recoveries from danger by sickness or otherwise.

When perhaps there this been but a step between us and death, and when we have received a sentence of death within ourselves, and have been ready to say, in the cutting off of our days, we should go to the gates of the grave, and were deprived of the residue of our years, yet thou hast in love to our souls delivered them from the pit of corruption, and cast all our sins behind thy back. 1 Sam 20:3. 2 Cor 1:9. Isa 38:10

When the sorrows of death have compassed us, and the pains of hell have got hold upon us, we have called upon the nameé%f the Lord, and have found that gracious is the Lord, and righteous ; yea, our God is merciful; we have been brought low, and he hath helped us, and hath delivered our souls from death, our eyes from tears, and our feet from falling. We will therefore walk before the Lord in the land of the living. Ps 116:3–8.

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Pray now: a guided prayer in six parts, with the next heads each day.

Henry’s text is in the public domain. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 265 Chestnut Street. Undated, about 1840 to 1860. The preface is dated Chester, March 25, 1710. From the Internet Archive scan. The KJV text is in the public domain.