and Spiritually Guided and Directed, should be the indispensable qualifications in the choice of the Performer; and, if influenced by sentiments of true piety, and a desire to make the calling subservient to the honour of GOD and the keeping alive a devout feeling in the Congregation, no music would be ever used, nor any manner of execution practised, but such music as is solemn, grand, rich and beautiful; and the execution such as would unite fulness of expression with a careful attention to the just observances of the air. The productions of that great Master of Music, Handel, and of various Others, the sound of whose compositions should be as the echo to the sense, where sacred words accompany them, when executed with fidelity, never fail to gratify the ear and assist in elevating the mind to solemn and appropriate thought; and a choice from such works will be made with an effect highly creditable to the Performer.

1st Lesson.

On the conclusion of the Voluntary, if there be one, and, if not, then after the Psalms are read, the Minister reads a chapter from the Old Testament appointed for the day, the People usually sitting or standing at each One's option; and directing to this important part of the Service that attention, which preeminently is due to the Declared Word of GOD; All of Which hath been Written with the pen of Inspiration, and hath been Miraculously Preserved for our Instruction and Advancement in the Way of Salvation. For considerable practical utility may be derived from every part of the Old Testament, Historical as well as Doctrinal, by transferring in idea and application the history of the Children of Israel to ourselves as the Children of Grace, whether Supported or Forsaken, Comforted or Afflicted, in Liberty or in Bondage, in Hope or in Fear, as we conscientiously feel ourselves individually or collectively in spirit obedient to, or in rebellion against the Revealed Will of our CREATOR and REDEEMER.. -The first Lesson ended, the People stand up, and then The TE DEUM, or Benedicite, is said or chanted, as an utterance of gratitude for

GOD's Gracious Communication of His Word and Life; the Minister and People taking the Sentences alternately.

TE DEUM.

We praise Thee, O GOD! we acknowledge Thee to be The LORD.

That GOD is The LORD Few have the hardihood even outwardly to deny; and Fewer sustain such faithlessness, inwardly at least, when Death threatens them with an approach to where they have no reasonable hope to sustain their Spirit, but are overwhelmed with fear, lest their then consciousness may bring only condemnation, rushing upon them with the harrowing utterance, 'My sins are too heavy for me to bear! and yet He, Who would have Borne them, I have put from me, when I might have been Blest with His Salvation.' Still we, who do not deny, but acknowledge GOD to be The LORD, do not always, even in the House of His Consecration, think of Him as we ought to do, with all the reverence and gratitude that are His Due. For if we did, and entertained a just sense of His Power and Mercy, how beautifully dignified and impressive would be our manifestation of that feeling, when thus called upon to shew forth His Praise!

All the Earth doth worship Thee, The FATHER Everlasting.

As the Common PARENT of the Universe All Things upon or within the Earth, animate or inanimate, except self-willed and aspiring Man, do honour to their CREATOR, by the fitness of their formation for their appointed purpose, and by their implicit fulfilment of The DIVINE Appointment respecting them. Oh! that Men would praise The LORD for His Goodness so pre-eminently Extended to them, and declare the Wonders of His Doings for the Children of Men?

To Thee all Angels cry aloud, the Heavens and all the Powers therein.

The Celestial Choir, with the spirit of adoration and holy love, ever pour forth exultingly their gratitude and praise at the contemplation of The DIVINE NATURE, and the experience of Its Goodness and Wisdom, as well as of the sense of Its

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Benevolent, though Resistless Power. Nor is their exultation limited to their own sphere of participation in the Boundless Loving-Kindness of The CREATOR. But they take doubtlessly a lively pleasure in every Extension of That Spirit to other Natures than their own, and especially, we have the Authority of the Word of GOD for believing, in Man's Blessings of Providence and Redemption. For Such Things the Angels desire to look into-1 Pet. i. 12.

To Thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually do cry,

The Heavenly Spirits, in their different degrees of Perfection towards an increase in which they are All doubtless continually striving, as gathering from thence extended powers to glorify their CREATOR, and Man's REDEEMER, pour forth their sweet and mellifluous voices in honour of The TRIUNE JEHOVAH, delighting to do Him Service, or to render homage unto Him, and saying,

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD of Sabaoth;

Sabaoth, or Zabaoth, is of Armies: and of All the Hosts of Heaven, as of All Creatures upon Earth, is ALMIGHTY GOD, The LORD; with Whom is Victory as The GOD of Battles; and before Whose Power All Beings must bow. With Him it is to Save by Many or by Few. The Three times uttered 'HOLY' Points to The TRIUNE NATURE of The GODHEAD; and though The SON as Man Became Obedient unto Death, even the Death of the Cross, yet was That in Fulfilment of His Pledge for Man, since, as He Himself Said, Had He but Prayed The FATHER, He would have Sent Him More than Twelve Legions of Angels, that He should not have been Delivered up to His Enemies. This Doctrine of The TRINITY in UNITY we receive as an Act of Faith, because So Declared by DIVINE Revelation. Celestial Spirits may comprehend The Mystery, and so will Man, when Called to DIVINE Communion amongst the Armies of the Faithful.

Heaven and Earth are full of The MAJESTY of Thy Glory!

Not only are Both the Heavens and the Earth the Work of

The DIVINE Hands, but they manifest in themselves the Greatness and Worthiness of Such Mighty Undertakings, not solely in their original Formation, but in their Providential Support and Preservation, in their respective Aptitude for All, who are in Heavenly Places, and for All, who have their habitation on Earth.

The Glorious Company of the Apostles praise Thee!

The peculiar Instruments of CHRIST's Love in the Extension of the Blessed Tidings of Peace and Reconciliation from On High, Whom He Selected to go unto all Lands and preach The Gospel, and to proclaim the Advent of The KINGDOM of HEAVEN to all penitent Believers, did indeed form a Glorious Company; for upon them was The HOLY GHOST most signally Shed abroad in All Its Graces, to Fit them for their High and Holy Calling. And the surviving Influence of their Writings, under the Dictate of Inspiration, and of their Workings after their Blessed MASTER's Example, still speaks, and will continue unto the end of Time to speak to JEHOVAH's Praise, and to The REDEEMER's Glory.

The Goodly Fellowship of the Prophets praise Thee!

The holy Seers of old, and the Chosen Servants of GOD, to communicate to a thoughtless and rebellious People the Events connected with Man in his Relationship to his MAKER, which should eventually come to pass, so far as Futurity was laid open to them by An Omniscient GOD, whether holding out Warnings or Encouragements, exulted in their Office, and by their faithful fulfilment of it spoke to their MAKER's Praise. The noble Army of Martyrs praise Thee!

They, who so manifested and attested the liveliness of their faith, as to lay down their Lives, and to endure patiently every variety of Persecution, even to the death, for the honour of Him, Who by His Gospel had Called them from Death unto the Promise of the Life Eternal, and who, with St. Paul, counted it a glory to suffer the loss of all things, and of even

Life itself, that they might bear testimony to the Truth as It is in JESUS. These, by the fruits both of their Lives and Deaths, ennobled by the Righteous Cause in Which they fought the good Fight of Faith, truly put forth Acceptable Praise unto GOD, by their so glorying in the Cross of CHRIST as the Banner of their Salvation and Triumph in JESUS. Would that they, who hold it an honour to die in the field of Human combat, and for Worldly objects, would infinitely prefer to live the life, that they may die the death of the Righteous, and find Peace at the last through faith in The Only CAPTAIN of Salvation.

The Holy Church throughout all the World doth acknowledge Thee,

The Church of GOD is the heart of the Believer, wherever stationed and however circumstanced. It is there and there only that the Temple of The HOLY GHOST, Founded and Built up in CHRIST, Exists, being dedicated in Holiness unto The LORD,' and faithfully confessing The TRIUNE JEHOVAH,

The FATHER of an Infinite MAJESTY!

The First PERSON in The Eternal and All-Glorious and Indivisible TRINITY is thus Distinguished; with no limit to His Power, and of Glory and MAJESTY Eternal. Not only The FATHER, as CREATOR of the Angelic Host, but through the Great and Mysterious Sacrifice of His Only SON, The FATHER both by Creation and Adoption of all His Elect amongst the Sons of Earth.

THINE Honourable, True, and Only SON!

The Blessed JESUS Said of The FATHER, 'My FATHER Honoureth Me.' And He is indeed Honourable; for All Honour, Power, Might, Majesty, and Dominion are Given to Him of The FATHER. And that He is The True aud Only SON of GOD, we have The FATHER's Own Avowal at His Baptism, (Matt. iii. 17.) and which was Repeated at His Transfiguration (Luke ix. 35.) in These Words,