Prayer of Thanksgiving.
understand his counsels, or find out all his methods?
If the works of God were such as buman reason could penetrate with ease, they would lose great part of their glory. We should soon abate of our veneration for the Author, if his dealings were not above the power of our tongues to express, and the utmost extent of our imaginations to conceive. O that men would therefore praise the LORD for his goodness, and confess the wonders that he doth for the children of men! for great and marvellous are thy works, O LORD GOD Almighty; how unsearchable are thy judgments, and thy ways past finding out.
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A Prayer of Thanksgiving, in our retirement, after we are returned home from the Lord's Table.
Behold, thon art made whole, sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee. John v. 14.
O LORD My GOD! I acknowledge with all thankfulness of heart thy great mercy and goodness, in giving me an opportunity of approaching thy holy table, in disposing my mind to commemorate the infinite love of my crucified Saviour, to render him thanks ant praise for laying down his life as a sacrifice for the sins of the world, and to represent
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