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2 5 g Bose Gods name is finCi fiedby us. knowledge and profeffe God and his attributes,&c. Rom. i o. i o, z. When we fpeak of God and his attributes holily and reverently. In our lives; when the knowledge of God and , his attributes is effeduall tò bring forth in us a con - verfation anfwerable thereunto. Knowell thou there is a God r worfhip him. That he is a Spirit worfhip him in fpirit and truth. That he is idle: fear him. That he is mercifull love him. That he is omniprefent r behave thy felf as in his prefence. That he is omnifufficient repofe thy trufl in him. That he is omnifcient and koehoyy¿,Syy, a fearcher of the heart? approve thine heart to him, &c. Thus then we defire that the name of God in the firfl fenfe may be fan lified by us. The ufes. 1. Concerning prayer. THat we may pray fervently,we mull have a feel. ing of our want; as, our ignorance of God (here we pray for knowledge of God, without which we cannot acknowledge him) the vanity of our minds, thinking amiffe of God , Job I. 5. our irreverent o fpeech of God, owr not fanelifying of God in our lives (a fault incident to the bell) Num.20. I 3. For who can fay that he hath loved and feared God, &c, as he ought, and behaved himfelf alwayes as in Gods prefence z. Concerning our lives. The ufe concerning our lives : That as in our prayers we delire, fo in our lives we endeavour thus to fan6lifie God : For if we our felves will not en- deavour thus to do, it fheweth that we have no true delire