BLESSING*.

"MAY THE LOVE OF GOD THE FATHER, THE GRACE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, THE FELLOWSHIP AND COMMUNION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, BE WITH YOU, AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF GOD, HENCEFORTH AND, FOR EVERMORE, AMEN."

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* The whole Congregation ftand up, when the Blef

fing is pronounced.

7HERE high the heavenly temple stands,

The house of God not made with hands,
A great High Priest our nature wears;
The guardian of mankind appears.

*Befides the Pfalms of David, a Collection of Tranflations and Paraphrases, in verse, of several paffages of facred Scripture, together with fome Hymns, has been, of late years, used in several Congregations in public worship; and this, by permiffion of the General Affembly of the Church of Scotland. This Paraphrase of Hebrews iv. 14. and likewife the Hymn which closes the' following EVENING SERVICE, are taken from that Col

lection,

II.

He who for men their Surety stood,
And pour'd on earth his precious blood,
Pursues in heav'n his mighty plan,
The Saviour and the Friend of man.

III.

Though now afcended up on high,
He bends on earth a brother's eye;
Partaker of the human name,
He knows the frailty of our frame.

IV.

Our fellow-fuff'rer yet retains
A fellow-feeling of our pains;
And still remembers in the skies
His tears, his agonies, and cries.

V.

In every pang that rends the heart,
The man of forrows had a part;
He fympathifes with our grief,
And to the fuff'rer fends relief.

VI.

With boldness therefore at the throne,

Let us make all our forrows known;
And afk the aids of heav'nly pow'r,
To help us in the evil hour.

PRAYER.

lection, and both of them were compofed by the Author of these Sermons. See Mr Logan's Poems, published in 1781.

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PRAYER.

"FATHER ALMIGHTY! we come again into thy prefence, with the voice of thankf giving, and of praise, to worship at the footstool of thy throne. May our prayers before thee, as the incenfe of old; and the lifting up of our hands, as the evening facrifice! To all temples, thou preferreft the pure and humble heart to all burnt-offerings, the facrifice of prayer and of praise.

"The heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. Thou dwelleft not in temples made with hands. The universe is the altar of God. Thy worshippers are, whereever are thy works: every knee bends, and every tongue utters thy praife. Thou lookeft down from the height of heaven, upon all the works of thy hands. Thou art clothed with majefty, and dwelleft in light. Thou art a God of pure eyes: Thou art glorious in holinefs. Thou lookest upon Bb 3

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the fun, and it fhineth not: the heavens are not clean in thy fight. The angels who furround thy throne, continually worfhip thee, faying, Holy, holy, holy, art thou, Lord God Almighty! the whole heavens, and the whole earth, are full of thy glory!

"Thy throne, O God, is for ever: thy dominion ruleth over all: the fceptre of thy kingdom is altogether a right fceptre. Thy tender mercies are over all thy works. Thy goodness falls every where like the dew, and extends like the beams of the fun. Order and beauty attend thy steps: mercy and love direct the whole train of thine adminiftrations. Thou lookeft down upon the highest and upon the lowest of thy works thou careft for the raven of the defert: thou feedeft the fowls of the air when they cry unto thee. Thou adorneft the grass with green, and deckest the lilies of the field with beauty fuperior to the glory of kings. Thou haft created all being at firft with a father's care, and thou doft ftill watch over them with a father's eye. Thou, the Lord JEHOVAH rejoiceft in thy works; and thy works, O Lord JE