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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON XXVIII. THE GREAT DUTY OF ACKNOWLEDGING AND GLORIFYING GOD PUT INTO PRACTICE. ASSIST me, glorious God, by thy Holy Spirit, so to think and speak of Thee, as that they who hear me may see and acknowledge Thee in thy wonderful and beneficial works of Creation and Providence; and that we may all fear, and love, and obey, and glorify thy great name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Psalm xxix. 2. GIVE USTO THE LORD THE GLORY IH E UNTO HIS NAME. EVERY body owns it to be a most neces- I sary duty to praise and glorify the God who made us, and who holds our souls in life. But many, too many, are at a loss, through a careless, unthoughtful temper, how to do it as they should do. At the same time, there is no one thing which we can cast our eyes upon, but may afford us an occasion of admiring, and glorifying, either the power, or the wisdom, or the goodness, or the providence of God. Now, the want of thus observing the works of (rod is the great occasion of that scandalous indifference in the religion which the generality of Christians pay to God. And it cannot be otherwise forasmuch, as the knowledge of God is the root and the foundation of all true religion; ?and the observing his wondrous works, and Stf Palm iii.ti xfot. 1; cxlv. 3, 10, ud - -, 7ev. v. 94. Art xii. IT. Worn i. 2 Rev i' II glorifying him for them, is the only way of preserving an holy fear, and love, and reverence of God, and an high esteem of him in our minds. It is true, God does not need any honour we can pay him; he is infinitely great, and good, beyond what we can think or say of him; but it is altogether for our sakes, that he has made it our duty to glorify him; that we may think, and speak, and live as becomes those who have a due sense and knowledge of God, in whom they li...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217553070 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217553079 |
| Weight | 0.72 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 218 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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