We must stir up ourselves to praise God with the consideration both of the reason and of the encouragement we have to praise him. › The goodness of his grace relating to our souls and the life that is to come.

19. For the institution of ordinances, and particularly that of the ministry.

We thank thee, that thou hast not only showed thy word unto Jacob, but thy statutes and judgments unto Israel, unto us. Thou hast not dealt so with other nations, and as for thy judgments, they have not known them. Ps 147:19, 20.

‘That the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and that he hath set his sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore, and there will meet with the children of Israel. Rev 21:3. Ezek 37:26. Exod 29:43.

We thank thee, that thou hast made known unto us thy holy Sabbaths; and that still there remains the keeping of a Sabbath to the people of God. And that when the Lord Jesus ascended up on high he gave gifts unto men, not only prophets, apostles, and evangelists, but pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. And that while they teach us to observe all things which Christ hath commanded, he hath promised to be with them always, even unto the end of the world. Neh 9:14. Heb 4:9. Eph 4:8, 11–13. Matt 28:20.

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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.