Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 111:1

1 PRaise ye the LORD, I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright , and in the congregation.

Of the sincere Worshippers of God, of the Israel of God, as this very word is explained, Numb. 23. 10. where they who are called Israel in one clause are called righteous or upright in the next. And this title he gives to the Assembly or Congregation of Israelites, partly because many of them were such, and he was obliged in charity to judge all of them to be so, of whom he had no evidence to the contrary; partly because upright persons do most exercise and delight themselves in this duty of praising God, and hypocrites, though sometimes they give themselves to prayer, yet are very apt to neglect the duty of thanksgiving; partly because this duty of praise is most comely for the upright, Psal. 33. 1. and partly because Davids heart was most united to the sincere Israelites, and his desire was, as far as he could, to associate himself with such in the worship and service of God.

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