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call you and myself to a serious scrutiny, how- 

 well we have learned them, and so an end. 



And first, we begin (as we ought) in giving God 

 his due ; in rendering to God the things that are 

 God's. To limit this wide universality too, and 

 render it more proper and peculiar, we may re- 

 duce all to that first of Isaiah's three Songs men- 

 tioned at the beginning, ^Glorifij ye the Lord in 

 the Fires; giving him upon this sad occasion the 

 glory of that great Trinity of his Attributes the 

 Glory of his Power and Majesty; the Glory of his 

 Justice and Equity ; the Glory of his Goodness and 

 Mercy. 



Give him the Glory of his Power and Greatness; 

 which the Prophet calls ' Singing for the Majesty 

 of the Lord,' Chap. xxiv. 15. or ' Beholding the 

 Majesty of the Lord, when his hand is lifted up,' 

 in the verse after my text. How great and glori- 

 ous our God is, who is in himself incomprehensi- 

 ble, appears best by the glorious greatness of his 

 works. If he builds, it is a world, heaven and 

 earth, and the fulness of both. If he gives, it is 

 his only Son out of his bosom, the brightness of 

 his glory, and the express image of his person. 

 If he rewards, it is a crown, it is a whole heaven 

 of glories. If he be angry, he sends a deluge ; 

 opens the cataracts of heaven above, and breaks 

 up the fountains of the great deep below, and 

 pours forth whole floods of vengeance: fOr else 

 he rains down hell out of heaven, and in a mo- 



* Chap. xxjv. 15. t Salvian. 



