5 THE APOSTLES' CREED BY BISHOP KEN. I Believe. Y Lord and my God, with a full, them; I know Thou art Infallible Truth, a Faith working by love. and canft not, Thou art Infinite Love, Deut. xxxii. and wilt not deceive me: Glory be to Thee. With all my heart, O my God, do I love and praise Thee, who art fo infinitely a He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are judgment: a God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is He. b Good and upright is the Lord therefore will He teach finners in the way. a 4. Heb. vi. 18. b Pfal. xxv. 8. Amiable in Thyself, and fo full of Love to us, that all I can know, or believe of Thee, excites me to love Thee. Lord, daily increase my Faith; make James ii. 20. it active and fruitful, that I may believe and love Thee as entirely as becomes one entirely devoted to Thee. Its objects. The Unity of God. d Deut. iv. 35. Ifaiah xliv.6; xlv. 5, 6. In God. BELIEVE, O my God, that Thou art One, and that there is no other God befides Thee; Thou art that One Infinite and Independent Being, that One Only True God, whom all men, and all angels are to adore: All Glory be to Thee. c But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? d Unto thee it was showed, that thou mighteft know that the Lord He is God; there is none else befide Him. Thus faith the Lord the King of Ifrael, and his redeemer the Lord of hofts; I am the first, and I am the last; and O Lord God, help me to love and to praise Thee with God-like affections, and a fuitable devotion. e Mat. iii. 17; John i. 5. xxviii. 19. I believe, O my God, that in the Unity The Trinity of Thy Godhead, there is a Trinity of Perfons, I believe in Thee, O Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, in whofe Name I was baptized, to whofe fervice I am religiously devoted: All Glory be to Thee. I believe, I admire, I love, I praise, I adore Thee, O moft Bleffed and Glorious Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghoft, for being the joint Authors of our Salvation: All Glory be to Thee. O Sacred and Dreadful, and Mysterious Trinity, though I cannot conceive Thee, yet let me daily experiment Thy Goodnefs; Let Thy Grace, O Lord Jefus ; let Thy Love, O God the Father; let Thy e And lo a voice from heaven, faying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the f The grace of the f 2 Cor. xiii. 14. Communications, O Holy Spirit, be ever with me. The Father. The first IB BELIEVE, and love, and praise Thee, His diftinc-moft Adorable Trinity; the Fountain of 5 John i. 18; v. 18. Glory be to Thee, O God the Father, h John iii. for fo loving the world," as to give Thy Only Begotten Son to redeem us. 16. Glory be to Thee, O Heavenly Father, for first loving us, and giving the dearest thing Thou hadft for us; O help me to love again, and to think nothing too dear for Thee. |