Till they become full ripe for thee; and then fly away to thy holy Prefence. Glory be to the Father, &c.: As it was in the Beginning, &c. How PSALM XX. L. WOW admirable is thy Name, O Lord, over all the Earth? How wife and gra cious the Counfels of thy Providence? ...After thou hadft thus prepar'd the World as a Houfe, ready furnished for. Man to inhabit; Thy mighty Hand fram'd our Bodies of the Duft, and built them of a Shape of Use and Beauty: Thom didft breath into us the Spirit of Life; and fit us with Faculties: proportionable to our End. Than gaveft us a Soul to govern our Bodies; and Reafon to command in this our Soul. dt sig - Thou revealed ft unto us a Law for the Improvement of our Reafon; and enableft us by thy Grace to obferve that Law. 5. Thou madeft us Lords over all thy Creatures; but little inferior to thy glorious -Angels.evitoM Thou compelled ft whole Nature to serve us without Reward; and invitedЛt us to love thee for our own Happiness. Thou designedft us an Age of pure Delights in that sweet, and fruitful Gardensito d LIT Where Where having led a long and pleasant Life; thou promisedst to transplant us to thine own Paradife : All this thou didst, O glorious God; the full Poffeffor of Univerfal Blifs ob Not for any Need thou hadst of us; or the leaft Advantage thou couldt derive from our Being.co1 world Aqai All this thou didft, the liberal Beftower infinite Goodness, of whate'er we poflefs! -Not for any Merit, alas of ours; or the leaft Motive we could offer to induce thee! of But for thine own exceflive Charity, and the meer Inclination of thine own richt Nature. That empty we might receive of Thy Fulness; and be Partakers of thysoverflowi ing Bounty. .22 PUB910 yďu to foriup So freds the generous Sun his Beams, and freely scatters/thein on every sidel; feiniog Gilding all the World withhisbeauteous Light and kiddky cherishing lie with his fruitful Hearse, ono se on ni And fo doit thou, and infinitely more, O thou God of infinite more Perfections! So we confess thou doft to us; but we, what Return have we made to thee? Have we well confider'd the End of our Being; and faithfully comply'd with thyi Purpose to fave us? Ah, wretched we welneglect thy holy Buless and govern our Actions by Chance and Humoprowoy basiconcH bas volo ded We We quite forget our God that made us; and fill our Heads with Thoughts that undo us. Pardon, O gracious Lord, our past Ingratitude; and mercifully direct our Time to come. Teach every Paffage of our yet remains ing Life, how to exprefs an Acknowledgement fit for thy Mercies. O make our Senfes fubject to our Reafon, and our Reafon entirely obedient unto thee. O make the whole Creation conspire to thy Honours and all that depend on thee joyn together in thy Praise. This is the only Praise thou expectest from us and the whole Honour thou re use quireft of thy Creatures. That by obferving the Orders thou appointest them here, in this lower Region of Motion, and Chance, We may all grow up to be happy hereafter, in the State of Permanency,and eternal Reft. Glory be to the Father,&c. do C As it was in the Beginning, &C. Praise the Lord, O my Soul, and all that is within me, praife his holy Name. 309 Revelation the 4th, Ver, the last.N Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive Glory, and Honour, and Power; for thou haft 1 haft created all Things; and for thy Plea fure they are and were created. H HYMN VI 9.0 u Ark, my Soul, how every thing Strives to ferve our bounteous King; Each a double Tribute pays y Sings its Part, and then obeys. Nature's fweet and chiefeft Choir, I Him with chearful Notes admire; Though their Voices lower be, All the Flowers that gild the Spring, Only we can scarce afford. This fhort Office to our Lord; Wake for shame, my fluggish Heart, Call aidT Ha be hero fed Call whole Nature to thy Aid, mis sut Since 'twas He whole Nature made; Joyn in one Eternal Song, Live for ever glorious Lord! TA H One in Three, and Three in One, Benedictus, as in Sunday Lauds, ر 179 Saited Antiphon study 9v3 0.5h slidW The boundless Ocean of Being could not contain his Streams, but overflow'd upon pure Nothing; and behold a bounteous World appear'd: Heaven and Earth, and all therein, from the highelf Angel to the leaft Grain of Duft, altogether the most perfect Participation of his Effence.lt [IA V. He pake the Word, and they were made. Vod R. He but commanded, and they were bus 1339100 llar? created. C bio Corest 2ɔ ɔw yłno bro Let us Prayno vodi zjaT Almighty Lordha the only wife and good Creator of the Univerfe, who madeft all Corporeal Nature for the Ufe of Man, and Man for his own Felicity!! En large our Souls, we beseech thee, humbly to admire and adoreahy infinite Fulness of Being in thy Self, and thy immenfe, Lipe |