Creator, Upholder and Proprietor of all things,
We cannot escape from Your presence and control, nor do we desire to do so.
Our privilege is to be under the agency of Your omnipotence, righteousness, wisdom, patience, mercy and grace;
For You are Love with more than parental affection.
We admire Your goodness, stand in awe of Your power, abase ourselves before Your purity.
It is the discovery of Your goodness alone that can banish our fear allure us into Your presence, help us to bewail and confess our sins.
We review our past guilt and are conscious of present unworthiness.
We bless You that Your steadfast love and attributes are essential to our happiness and hope;
You have witnessed to us Your grace and mercy in the bounties of nature, in the fullness of Your providence, in the revelations of Scripture, in the gift of Your Son, in the proclamation of the gospel.
Make us willing to be saved in Your own way, perceiving nothing in ourselves but all in Jesus.
Help us not only to receive Him but to walk in Him, commune with Him, follow Him as dear children, imperfect, but still pressing forward, not complaining of labor, but valuing rest, not murmuring under trials, but thankful for our state.
And by so doing let us silence the ignorance of foolish men. Amen.
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