Laftly, That when we have faid all we can of the glorious perfections of the divine nature, we fall infinitely fhort of the merit of the subject.

Lo! thefe are but part of thy ways, and how little a portion is heard of God! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out, he is excellent in power and in judgment, and in plenty of juftice, and he is exalted far above all bliffing and praife.

3. We must give to God the praise of that fplendor and glory wherein he is pleased to manifest hisafelf in the upper world.

Thou haft prepared thy throne in the heavens, and it is a throne of glory, high and lifted up, and before thee the Seraphims cover their faces. And it is in compaffion to us that thou holdeft back the face of that throne, and fpreadeft a cloud upon it.

Thou makeft thine angels fpirits, and thy minifters a flame of fire. Thousand thousands of them minister unto thee, and ten thousand times ten thou· fand ftand before thee, to do thy pleafure. They excel in ftrength, and harken to the voice of thy word. And we are come by faith and hope and holy love into a fpiritual communion with that innume rable company of angels, and the fpirits of juft men made perfect, even to the general affembly and church. of the first-born, in the heavenly Jerufalem.

4. We must give glory to him as the creator of the world, and the great protector, benefactor, and and ruler of the whole creation.

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive blessing, and honour, and glory, and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure, and for thy praife, they are and were created.

We worship him that made the heaven and the earth, the fea, and the fountains of water; who fpoke and it was done, who commanded and it flood faft; who faid, Let there be light, and there was

light; Let there be a firmament, and he made the firmament; and he made all very good; and they continue this day according to his ordinance, for all are his fervants.

The day is thine, the night is alfo thine; thou haft prepared the light and the fun: Thou haft fet all the borders of the earth, thou haft made fummer and winter.

Thou upholdeft all things by the word of thy power, and by thee all things fubfift.

The earth is full of thy riches; fo is the great and wide fea alfo. The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givet them their meat in due feafon: Thou openest thy hand, and fatisfeft the defire of every living thing. Thou preferveft man and beaft, and giveft food to all flesh.

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 hoft of heaven worshippeth thee, whofe kingdom ruleth over all.

A fparrow falls not to the ground without thee. Thou madeft man at first of the duft of the ground, and breathed into him the breath of life, and fo he became a living foul.

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.

Thou art the Moft High, who ruleft in the kingdom of men, and giveft it to whomfoever thou wilt; for from thee every man's judgment proceeds.

Hallelujah, the Lord God Omnipotent reigns, and doth all according to the counfel of his own wili, to the praise of his own glory.

5. We must give honour to the three perfons in the godhead diftinctly, to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghoft, 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 the three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghoft; for these three are one.

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 fhewed 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, we adore him as the brightnefs of his Father's glory, and the exprefs image of his perfon; herein joining with the angels of God, who were all bid to worship him.

We pay our homage to the exalted redeemer, who is the faithful witnefs, the firft begotten from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth, confeffing that Jefus Chrift is Lord, to the glory of God the father.

We also worship the Holy Ghoft the comforter, whom the Son hath fent from the Father, even the fpirit 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 fcriptures, holy men of God writing them as they were moved by the Holy Ghoft.

6. We must acknowledge our dependance upon God, and our obligations to him, as our creator, preferver, and benefactor.

Thou, O God, madeft us, and not we ourselves, and therefore we are not our own, but thine, thy people, and the fheep of thy pafture; let us therefore worthip, and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our maker.

Thou, Lord, art the former of our bodies, and they are fearfully and wonderfully made, and curiously wrought. Thine eyes did fee our fubftance, yet being imperfect, and in thy book were all our members written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Thou haft cloathed me with fkin and flesh, thou haft fenced us with bones and finews, thou hast granted us life and favour, and thy visitation preferves our fpirit.

Thou art the father of our fpirits, for thou formed the spirit of man within him, and madeft us thefe fouls. The fpirit of God hath made us, and the breath of the Almighty hath given us life: Thou puttest wisdom in the inward part, and giveft underftanding to the heart.

Thou art God our maker, and teacheft us more than the beafts of the earth, and makeft us wifer than the fowls of heaven.

We are the clay, and thou our potter; we are the work of thy hand.

Thou art he that took us out of the womb, and keeped us in fafety when we were at our mothers breaft; we have been caft upon thee from the womb, and held up by thee: Thou art our God from our mothers bowels, and therefore praife fhall be continually of thee.

In thee, O God, we live and move, and have our being, for we are thy offspring.

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 fteps, but our times are in thy hand.

Thou art the God that haft fed us all our life-long. unto this day, and redeemed us from all evil.

It is of thy mercy that we are not consumed, even becaufe 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 faith, and it cometh to pafs, if thou commandeft us not? Out of thy mouth, O Most High, both evil and good proceed.

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 Lord, though our goodness extendeth not unto thee, neither if we are righteous art thou the better.

Thou art our King, O God: Other Lords befides thee have had dominion over us, but from henceforth by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

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 ourselves unto him, to be his peculiar people, as he hath promifed, that we may be a holy people unto the Lord our God; and may be unto him for a name, and for a praife, and for a glory.

O Lord, truly we are thy fervants, we are thy fer. vants, 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 unto him, in an evèrlafting covenant, that shall never be forgot.

We are thine, fave us, for we feek, thy precepts: 'Tis thine own, Lord, that we give thee, and that which cometh of thine hand.

8. We must acknowledge it an unfpeakable favour, and an inefiimable privilege, that we are not only admitted, but invited and encouraged to draw nigh to God in prayer.

Thou haft commanded 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