t Sing ye Praises with Understanding, PSALM xlvii. 7. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: Sold at the CHAPEL, in the New Way, Westminster 147. g 182 PRE F A C E. T HE Worship of a Christian on Earth confifts of Confeffion, Prayer, Thanksgiving, and Praife. Confef fion and Prayer belong to him as guilty, weak, and needy. Thanksgiving as the Object of fparing Mercy, providential Goodness, and fpecial Grace.-But Praise properly terminates in GoD. It flows from a Love and Admiration of his Excellencies and Attributes, wherever, whenever, or on whomfoever displayed. A 2 Now Now abideth Confeffion, Prayer, Praife, these three; but the greatest of these is Praise for, when Time fhall be no more, and the Believer fhall neither have Sins to confefs, nor Wants to make known, fresh and brighter Discoveries of intrinfic Excellence, redeeming Glory, and condescending Grace will constrain his Praise to burft forth in Glory, Honour, Praife and Power, |