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LET all mankind therefore honour thee, O blessed Jesus, even as they honour the Father! Be thou adored every where up∣on Earth, with the same reverence and love, wherewith all the Angels in Heaven worship thee! whom they and we acknowledge to be the LORD; the WORD of God; the Wisdom of the Father; the bright morning Star; the Light of the World; the Prince of Life; the Heir of all things; the KING OF KINGS, AND THE LORD OF LORDS; God blessed for ever.
Thou art the King of glory, O Christ. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. The Beginner and the Finisher of our Faith; the Judge of the World; the Author of Eter∣nal Salvation unto all them that obey thee. O how happy are they that know thee, and stedfastly believe in thee, and sincerely love thee, and heartily obey thee, and have a good hope that thou wilt bless them, and imploy thy power for their promotion to that glory where∣in thou reignest! I rejoyce to hear thee say, that thou who wast dead art alive for ever∣more, Amen: and hast the keys of Hell and of Death. I thank thee for appearing so often, to assure our Souls, that thou sittest at the right hand of God, and hast all power in Heaven and in Earth. Great is the con∣solation which thou hast given us, by the sight of that Glory, wherein thy first Martyr be∣held thee, ready to succour all thy faithful servants. Marvellous was thy work, O Lord, for which all thy Church will for ever praise thee, in calling S. Paul to be an Apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God. Adored be thy glorious Majesty, which ap∣peared to him for this purpose, to make him a Minister and a Witness of what he saw and heard, that he might go and open the eyes of the Gentiles, to turn them from
darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God; that they might receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in thee. O how full of comfort is that Reve∣lation which thou hast made of thy self to thy servant John! Who received the brightest discoveries of thy glory in Heaven, when he was in the most desolate condition upon Earth! who beheld thy care over thy Church, and thy conquests over thine enemies: thy Priestly and thy Royal power, to the perpetual joy of those that love thee, and the terror of all those that oppose thee.
O blessed Jesus, far be it from any of us in the least to contradict thy will: who art so highly advanced far above all principality and power, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. May every Christian Soul be so sen∣sibly affected with the belief of thy Glory, as to prostrate it self before thee, and say with the same spirit that thy blessed Apostle S. Paul did when thou appearedst unto him, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? May that ardent love burn in every one of our breasts, towards thee and towards one another, which was in thy beloved Disciple, who bare record of thee, and testified to us these things! And
may none of us prove so false and unkind, as to leave our first love; but our work, and charity, and service, and faith, and pa∣tience may be ever commended by thee, and the last be more than the first!
Then shall we be able with a chearful coun∣tenance to look up unto thee, and to think of thy majesty and glory with exultation and tri∣umph, and not with terror and amazement of spirit. We will joy in thy strength, O Lord, and in thy salvation how greatly shall we rejoyce! We will rejoyce even in the midst of tribulation; and though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we will fear no evil: but stedfastly looking up unto Heaven, call upon thee, O Lord Jesus, and beseech thee to receive our Spirit. Into thy hands be they recommended both now and ever, with most earnest desires and hope, that thou wilt help thy servants, whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious bloud, and make them to be numbred with thy Saints in glory everlasting. Amen.