_O Eternal and glorious Lord God, since Thy glory and honor is the
great end of all Thy works, we desire that it may be the beginning
and end of all our prayers and services. Let Thy great Name be
glorious, and glorified, and sanctified throughout the world. Let the
knowledge of Thee fill all the earth as the waters cover the sea. Let
that be done in the world that may most advance Thy glory. Let all
Thy works praise Thee. Let Thy wisdom, power, justice, goodness,
mercy, and truth be evident unto all mankind, that they may observe,
acknowledge, and admire it, and magnify the Name of Thee, the Eternal
God. In all the dispensation of Thy Providence, enable us to see
Thee, and to sanctify Thy Name in our hearts with thankfulness, in
our lips with thanksgiving, in our lives with dutifulness and
obedience. Enable us to live to the honor of that great Name of Thine
by which we are called, and that, as we profess ourselves to be Thy
children, so we may study and sincerely endeavor to be like Thee in
all goodness and righteousness, that we may thereby bring glory to
Thee our Father which art in heaven; that we and all mankind may have
high and honorable thoughts concerning Thee, in some measure suitable
to Thy glory, majesty, goodness, wisdom, bounty, and purity, and may
in all our words and actions manifest these inward thoughts touching
Thee with suitable and becoming words and actions; through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen._--Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale, 1609.
Seventh Week, Fifth Day
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