3c6 Of acknowledging God in all our mays. SERM. is the foul of every living thing, and the XII. breath off all mankind. * Solomon tells us vthat a mails goings are from the Lord, all the exertions of our faculties are under the divine direCion and controul: And Daniel fays to Belfhazzar king of Babylon, t In whofé, that is God's, hand thy breath is, and whofe are all thy ways: from that confideration reproving him for not glorifying or acknow- ledgingGod. If therebeanygood in our ways, . any privilege in the exercife of our intelleftual capacities, if we have any folicitude about the iffue of our defigns and affairs ; all thefe are from God, abfolutely depending upon him; therefore he claims our praife. This is a duty often recommended to us in fcripture. In the book of Pfalms we are fre- rjuently called upon to employ ourfelves in celebrating the glory of the divine perfeCions, manifefted in the creation of the world and . the adminiftration of providence. Man, by his capacities, and by his fituation, is confti_. tasted the prieji of this earth, and the infe- rior creature& it contains, as well as in fome fenfe their Lord, that is, by prefenting to bis and their Maker, the facrifice of their praifes which they offer in their filent way; * Prov. XX. a4 Dan. v. a3, and
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