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and accusing enemy. The Lord pardon my ingratitude and accept of the praise of
His poor humble ones. Let my pride and hardness graciously be subdued, and oh,
may I be taught to walk humbly with my God. I am dumb. It is the Lord’s doing.
May my sorrow for the solemn assembly teach me to sympathize with others and
we be thankful for every opportunity to serve the Lord. Oh, may the prayers of
this people be heard also for poor destitute and the effect of this day be seen and
experienced throughout our land, unto the glory of the God of love and peace and
the eternal salvation of many, many precious immortal souls. I commit myself,
family, and congregation to His grace who is faithful and will not leave nor
forsake what I cannot perform with my lips may my life and future labors
recompense and the name of God our father be hallowed in His coequal and
coeternal Son, 105 our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, through the ever blessed spirit
of grace and glory. Amen.
13. Blessed be the Lord that I am not worse, but still in hopes tomorrow (VD 106 )
to praise His name in His Sanctuary. May I be better prepared and endure, with a
humble sense of my unworthiness and sinful ingratitude before Him; and oh,
Lord, increase my strength and health. I desire to be found in the way of duty,
either patient under Thy Rod or active in Thy service. But oh, pity my frame, and
speak peace to my soul. My hope is for Thy mercy and truth through the Lord
Jesus Christ, in whom is life, my hope and joy. Last night, when afflicted with a
toothache, I found much impatience and uneasiness. May it be pardoned
graciously and my soul be humbled. I have been led to the sufferings of the Lord
and given, thanks to Him for His love and mercy, the hope of deliverance through
Jesus Christ, our Lord, from sin and misery, and from everlasting pains. Oh, may
our pains endear His Cross to our senses, and we look unto Him, whom we have
pierced by our sins, detesting and crucifying all and every motion of sin that has
crucified our Lord in the flesh, and may the Father of mercies keep and preserve
me from the Wicked One, his temptations and assaults, and make me and all His
suffering ones more than conquerors, through faith in Christ. I am ashamed of my
ingratitude for all ease and relief of pains and of my complaining too much, when
somewhat indisposed. Oh, may I grow wiser and Holier, and trust in the God of
my salvation. May my congregation be supplied with worthy elders and deacons,
and my family rejoice in His goodness. Amen.
15. Yesterday the Lord, of His infinite mercy, did restore unworthy me to His
Sanctuary and gave me strength out of weakness to preach twice, what I intended
last Thursday, in the morning from Psalm 147.12 fin. 107 in Dutch, and in the
afternoon in English from Psalm 46.8-10, 108 and oh, may our praises and prayers
have been acceptable unto the God of our salvation and we, with the united faiths
of all America, be devoted to His service and glory. I have endeavored to impress
my own heart and my hearers with an abiding sense of due and Holy Gratitude for
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Reference to doctrine of the Trinity: coequal, coeternal, and coexistent.
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Volente Deo [Latin]: God willing.
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Praise the Lord, o Jerusalem! Praise your God, o Zion! For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he
blesses your children within you.
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Come, behold the works of the Lord; see what desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes
wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear; he burns the shield with
fire. “Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth.”
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