The day is thine, the night alfo is thine; thou haft fet all the borders of the earth; thou haft made fum'mer and winter w. Thou upholdest all things by the word of thy power*, and by thee all things confift". The earth is full of thy riches; fo is the great and wide fea alfo 2. The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou giveft them their meat in due feafon: thou openeft thy hand, and fatisfieft the defires of every living thing. Thou preferveft man and beaft, and giveit food to all fleth ". Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou haft made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their hoft, the earth and all things that are therein, the feas, and all that is therein, and thou preferveft them all and the host of heaven worshippeth thee, whofe kingdom ruleth over all d. A fparrow falls not to the ground without thee e. Thou madeft man at first of the duft of the ground, and breathedst into him the breath of life, and fo he became a living foul f. And thou hast made of that one blood, all nations of men, to dwell on all the face of the earth, and haft determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation 8. Thou art the most high who ruleft in the kingdom of men, and giveft it to whomfoever thou wilt ; for h; from thee every man's judgment proceeds i. Hallelujah, the Lord God omnipotent reigns *, and doth all, according to the counfel of his own will, to the praife of his own glory!! 5. We must give honour to the three perfons in the God head diftinctly, to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, that great and facred name into which we were baptized, and in which we affemble for religious worship, in communion with the univerfal church. We pay our homage to three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; for these three are one m. n We adore thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, "; and the eternal Word, who was in the beginning with God, and was God, by whom all things were made, and without whom was not any thing made that was made, and who in the fulness of time was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and showed his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth °. And fince it is the will of God that all men should honour the Son as they honour the Father P, we adore him as the brightness of his Father's glory, and the ex-prefs image of his perfon; herein joining with the angels of God, who were all bid to worship him ". who We pay our homage to the exalted Redeemer', is the faithful witnefs, the firft begotten from the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth, confelling that Jefus Chrift is Lord, to the glory of God the Father s. We also worship the Holy Ghoft the Comforter, whom the Son hath fent from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, and who is fent to teach us all things, and to bring all things to our remembrance, who indited the Scriptures, holy men of God writing them, as they were moved by the Holy Ghoft w 6. We must acknowledge our dependence upon God, and our obligations to him, as our Creator, Preferver, and Benefactor. 25. m 1 John v. 7. n Mat. xi. John v. 23. q Heb. i. 3, 6. t John xv. 26. John xiv. 26. r o John i. 1, 2, 8, 14. Rev. 1. 5. s Phil. . 11. w 2 Pet. i. 21. Thou, O God, madeft us, and not we ourselves, and therefore we are not our own, but thine, thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture ; let us therefore worfhip, and fall down, and kneel, before the Lord our Maker Y. Thou, Lord, art the former of our bodies, and they are fearfully and wondroufly made, and curiously wrought a. Thine eye did fee our fubftance, yet being imperfect, and in thy book all our members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Thou haft clothed us with skin and flesh, thou haft fenced us with bones and finews; thou haft granted us life and favour, and thy vifitation preferves our fpirit b. Thou art the father of our spirits e; for thou form edit the spirit of man within him, and madeft us these fouls. The Spirit of God hath made use, and the breath of the Almighty hath given us life. Thou puttest wisdom in the inward part, and givest underftanding to the heart £. Thou art God our maker, and teachest us more than the beasts of the earth, and makeft us wifer than the fowls of heaven h. We are the clay, and thou our potter; we are the work of thy hand i. Thou art he that tookest us out of the womb, and kept us in fafety when we were at our mother's breaft k; we have been caft upon thee from the womb, and held up by thee; thou art our God from our mother's bowels, and therefore praife fhall be continually of thee 1. In thee, O God, we live, and move, and have our being, for we are thine offspring m. In thy hand our breath is, and thine are all our ways; for the way of man is not in himself, neither is it in man that walketh to direct his steps °; but our times are in thy hand P. 'Thou art the God that haft fed us all our life long unto this day, and redeemed us from all evil 9. It is of thy mercies that we are not confumed, even because thy compaffions fail not; they are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness *. If thou take away our breath we die, and return to the duft, out of which we were taken §. Who is he that fayeth, and it cometh to pass, if thou commandeft it not? Out of thy mouth, 'O moft High, both evil and good proceed t. 7. We must avouch this God to be our God, and own our relation to him, his dominion over us, and propriety in us. Our fouls have faid unto the Lord, thou art our God, though our goodness extendeth not unto thee, neither if we are righteous art thou the better w. Thou art our King, O God: Other lords befides thee have had dominion over us x, but from henceforth by thee only will we make mention of thy name y. We avouch the Lord this day to be our God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his ftatutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken to his voice, and give ourfelves unto him, to be his peculiar people, as he hath promifed, that we may be a holy people unto the Lord our God z; and may be unto him for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory a. n Dar. v. 23. m A&s lxxi. 6, p Platra xxx. 15. s Palm civ. 29. w job xxxiv. 7. Ges. lviii. 15. Lam. iii. 37. 38. x Pfalm xliv. 4• o Jer. x. 23. Lam. iii. 22, 23, v Pfalm xvi. 2. y ≈ Deut. xxvi. 17, 18, 19. a Jer. xii, 11. Ifa. xxvi. 14. O Lord, truly we are thy fervants, we are thy fervants, born in thy houfe, and thou haft loofed our bonds; we are bought with a price, and therefore we are not our own; but yield ourselves unto the Lord, and join ourselves to him in an everlasting covenant d, that thall never be forgotten. We are thine, fave us, for we feek thy prcepts f: 'tis thine own, Lord, that we give thee, and that which cometh of thine hand s. 8. We must acknowledge it an unspeakable favour, and an ineftimable privilege, that we are not only admitted, but invited and encouraged to draw nigh to God in prayer. Thou haft conimanded us to pray always, with all · prayer and fupplication, with thanksgiving, and to watch thereunto with all perfeverance and fupplication for all faints, to continue in prayer, and in every thing, with prayer and fupplication, to make our requefts known to God k Thou haft directed us to afk, and feek, and knock, and haft promifed that we fhall receive, we shall find, and it fhall be opened to us 1. Thou haft appointed us a great High-prieft, in whose name we may come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may find mercy and grace to help in time of need ". n of Thou haft affured us that while the facrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, the prayer the upright is his delight : and that he that offers praife glorifies thee, and the facrifice of thanksgiving hall please the Lord better than that of an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs P. Thou art he that heareft prayer, and therefore unto thee fhall all flesh come. Thou fayeft, Seek ye my face, and our hearts an b Pfalm cxvi. 16. c 1 Cor. vi. 19. d 2 Chron. xxx. 8 e Jer. 1. 5. f Pfalm cxx. 94. g 1 Chron. xxix. 16. i Col. iv. 2. A Phil. iv. 6. / Mat. vii. 7. n Prov. xv. 8. o Pfalm 1. 23. P Ixix. b Eph. vi. 18. C |