6. We must acknowledge our dependence upon God, and our obligations to him, as our Creator, Preserver, and Benefactor.

Thou, O God, madest us, and not we ourselves, and therefore we are not our own, but thine; thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, Ps 100:3 let us therefore worship, and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. Ps 95:6.

Thou, Lord, art the former of our bodies, Ps 86:5, and they are fearfully and wonderfully made, and curiously wrought. ‘Thine eye did see our substance yet being imperfect, and in thy book all our members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Ps 139:15, 10.

Thou hast clothed us with skin and flesh, thou hast fenced us with bones and sinews; thou hast granted us life and favour, and thy visitation preserves our spirit. Job 10:11, 12.

Thou art the Father of our spirits, Heb. xu. 9, for thou formedst the spirit of man within him, and madest us these souls. Zech 12:1. The Spirit of God hath made us, Jer 38:16, and the breath of the Almighty hath given us life. Job 33:4. Thou puttest wisdom in the inward part, and givest understanding to the heart. Job 38:36.

Thou art God our Maker, and teachest us more than the beasts of the earth, and makest us wiser than the fowls of heaven. Job 35:10, 11.

We are the clay, and thou our potter; we are the work of thy hand. Isa 64:8.

Thou art he that took us out of the womb, and kept us in safety when we were at our mother’s breasts, Ps 22:9–10; we have been cast upon thee from the womb, and held up by thee: thou art our God from our mother’s bowels, and therefore our praise shall be continually of thee. Ps 71:6.

In thee, O God, we live and move, and have our being ; for we are thine offspring. Acts 17:28.

In thy hand our breath is, and thine are all our as ways, Dan 5:23; for the way of man is not in himself, neither is it in man that walketh to direct his steps, Jer 10:23; but our times are in thy hand. Ps 31:15.

Thou art the God that hath fed us all our life long unto this day, and redeemed us from all evil. Gen 48:15.

It is of thy mercies that we are not consumed, even because thy compassions fail not; they are new evéry morning; great is thy faithfulness. Lam 3:22, 23.

If thou take away our breath, we die and return to the dust, out of which we were taken. Ps 104:29.

Who is he that saith and it cometh to pass, if thou commandest it not? Out of thy mouth, O Most High, both evil and good proceed. Lam 3:37, 38.

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Pray now: a guided prayer in six parts, with the next heads each day.

Henry’s text is in the public domain. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 265 Chestnut Street. Undated, about 1840 to 1860. The preface is dated Chester, March 25, 1710. From the Internet Archive scan. The KJV text is in the public domain.