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Let me therefore add to the considerate of temporal blessings, the honour of religion and your reputation in the christian life, spiritual mercies you have personally experienced The consideration of these this must certainly produce the happiest effect and create a solid pleasure in your own bread that exceeds description. The joy, Philetus that we feel upon a review of past di goodness, is more than mortal: it is of the same kind, though different in degree. that which those happy souls experience who have exchanged a life of prayer, for eternal life of uninterrupted and unceasing praise!
In prayer, which is the breath of spiritual life, we supplicate the throne of grace adore the wisdom, the goodness, and be prescence of our heavenly Father. In this of privilege and duty we fi d the fulfil of that promise, Those who honour me, I will honour; and at the same time we and acknowledge it just that they when otherwise minded, should be lightly esteem
