We must stir up ourselves to praise God with the consideration both of the reason and of the encouragement we have to praise him. › We must be particular in our thanksgivings to God

5. For success in our callings and affairs, comfort in relations, and comfortable places It is God that girdeth us with strength, and maketh our way perfect; that hath blessed the work of our hands, and it may be so that though our beginning was small, yet our latter end hath greatly increased. Ps 18:32. Job 1:10 ; Job 8:7.

Our houses have been safe from fear, and there hath been no rod of God upon us, so that the voice of rejoicing-and salvation hath been in our tabernacle from day today. Job 21:9. Ps 118:15.

With our staff it may be we have passed over this Jordan, and now we are become two bands, and it is God that setteth the solitary in families. Gen 32:10Ps 68:6.

If we have lived joyfully with our relations, and they have been to us as the loving hind, and as the pleasant roe, we must give thee thanks for it, for every creature, is that to us, and no more, than thou makest it to be. Eccl 9:9. Prov 5:19.

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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.