A little insight into the two themes in the first fruits songs: God’s Mercy and God’s Goodness.
‘Though this affection may have its first rise from the favours and mercies of God toward ourselves, yet doth it, in its growth and progress transcend such particular considerations, and ground itself on his infinite goodness, manifested in all the works of creation and providence’The life of God in the Soul of Man’ – Henry Scougal