I Almighty. butes. i John iv. 23, BELIEVE, O my God, that Thou His Attriart a Spirit most Pure, and Holy,* and Infinite in all perfections,' in Power," and Knowledge," and Goodness;° that Thou art Eternal," Immutable, and Om-m Pf. cxv. 3. i But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father feeketh fuch to worship Him. God is a fpirit: and they that worship Him, muft worship Him in fpirit and in truth. k Because it is written, Beye holy; for I am holy. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unfearchable. m But our God is in the heavens: He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased. n Haft thou not known? haft thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the q ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no fearching of His understanding. • And He said unto him, Why callest thou Me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. P Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. 4 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variablenefs, neither fhadow of turning. 24. k 1 Pet. i. 16. 1 Pf. cxlv. 3. n Ifai. xl. 28. • Mat. xix. 17. P Pfalm xc. 2. a James i. 17. r Pf. cxxxix. niprefent; all Love, all Glory be to I, &c. Thee. I believe, O Lord, that Thou art most Wife and Juft,' moft Happy" and Glorious," and All-fufficient," most Gracious and Merciful, and Tender, and Benign, and Liberal, and Beneficent; all Love, all Glory be to Thee. O Lord, Thou haft fearched me, and known me, &c. s Great is our Lord, and of great power: His understanding is infinite. t Who will render to every man according to his deeds. u Thou wilt fhow me the path of life: in Thy prefence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for ever more. ▾ Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath feen, nor can fee to whom be honour and power everlafting. Amen. w And He faid unto I believe Thy Divine Nature, O my God, to be in all respects Amiable, to be Amiableness itself, to be Love' itself; and therefore I love, I admire, I praise, and I adore Thee. Thou, Lord, art my Hope, my Trust, my Life, my Joy, my Glory, my God, my All, my Love. I Maker of Heaven and Earth. BELIEVE, that Thou, O Father His Works. Almighty, didft create heaven and earth, the whole world, and all things in it, visible and invifible, out of nothing, and by Thy Word only: to Thee. All Glory be Gen. i. 1. God is love; and he that In the beginning Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, fo that things which are feen were not Heb. xi. 3. Pf. lxxxix. II. I believe, O Thou Great Creator, that Thy Divine Love made Thee communicate being to Thy creatures; that Thou lovest all things, and hateft nothing Thou haft made: Glory be to Thee. a I believe, O God, that Thou art the fole Lord, and Proprietor of all things Deut. x. 14. Thou haft made; that all things do neceffarily depend on Thee; that it is in Thee only we live, and move, and have our being: All Love, all Glory be to Thee. b Acts xvii. 28. I believe, O Thou Communicative Goodness, that Thou dost preserve, and sustain, and protect, and bless all things Thou haft made, fuitably to the natures made of things which do By the word of the a Behold the heaven, and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy God, the earth alfo, with all that therein is. The heavens are Thine, the earth also is Thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof Thou haft founded them. b For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have faid, For we are alfo His offspring. cxlv. Pf. Thou haft given them: All Love, all Read the Glory be to Thee. d I believe, O Mighty Wisdom, that Thou doft moft fweetly order, and govern, and difpofe all things; even the most minute; even the very fins of men, to confpire in Thy Glory; O do Thou conduct my whole life, fteer every motion of my foul, towards the great end of our creation; to love, and to glorify Thee. I believe, O Lord, that Thy Love was more illuftrious in the creation of man, than in all the rest of the visible World; Thou wert pleased to make him in Thy Gen. i. 26. d O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! in wisdom haft Thou made them all the earth is full of Thy riches. e Behold the fowls of the air for they fow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? And why take ye thought for raiment ? Confider the lilies of the field how they grow; But the very hairs of f But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to fave much people alive. And God faid, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness; |