Thine eyes, a sinner, “of sinners the chief,” “less than the least of all saints.” Thou hast created me; I am a work of Thy hands, a vessel which Thou hast formed. When Thou didst will it, I was created; and when I was created. Thou madest me to be immortal. I am a living soul which Thou hast made; I am Thine; I know that Thou hast respect unto man, though he is “like a thing of nought,” and dost greatly regard the son of man.
God the Son, Holy Jesus, Thou hast shewn what love Thou hast for the sons of men, for Thou didst become man Thyself, and knowest us by Thine own Manhood, and art “touched with a feeling of our infirmities,” and hast had experience of our suffering estate, and hast been “tempted like as we are, yet without sin,” and hast loved us, and given Thyself for us, and hast “carried our sorrows,” and didst humble Thyself to death, even to the worst death of men, the death of the Cross.
God the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, the Sanctifier, the Spirit of truth, the Guide unto truth. Thy love towards man has been made known, for Thou dwellest among men, and enterest into the hearts of men, and fillest believers with Thyself, and makest our mortal bodies to be the temples