The heavens declare thy glory,

         The earth thy riches,

The universe is thy temple;

Thy presence fills immensity,

Yet thou hast of thy pleasure created life,

   and communicated happiness;

Thou hast made me what I am, and given me

   what I have;

In thee I live and move and have my being;

Thy providence has set the bounds of my habitation,

   and wisely administers all my affairs.

I thank thee for thy riches to me in Jesus,

   for the unclouded revelation of him in thy Word,

   where I behold his Person, character, grace, glory,

   humiliation, sufferings, death, and resurrection;

Give me to feel a need of his continual saviourhood,

   and cry with Job, ‘I am vile’,

   with Peter, ‘I perish’,

   with the publican, ‘Be merciful to me, a sinner’.

Subdue in me the love of sin,

Let me know the need of renovation as well as

     of forgiveness,

   in order to serve and enjoy thee for ever.

I come to thee in the all-prevailing name of Jesus,

   with nothing of my own to plead,

   no works, no worthiness, no

GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD

O Lord God, Who inhabitest eternity,

T he heavens declare thy glory,

         The earth thy riches,

The universe is thy temple;

Thy presence fills immensity,

Yet thou hast of thy pleasure created life,

   and communicated happiness;

Thou hast made me what I am, and given me

   what I have;

In thee I live and move and have my being;

Thy providence has set the bounds of my habitation,

   and wisely administers all my affairs.

I thank thee for thy riches to me in Jesus,

   for the unclouded revelation of him in thy Word,

   where I behold his Person, character, grace, glory,

   humiliation, sufferings, death, and resurrection;

Give me to feel a need of his continual saviourhood,

   and cry with Job, ‘I am vile’,

   with Peter, ‘I perish’,

   with the publican, ‘Be merciful to me, a sinner’.

Subdue in me the love of sin,

Let me know the need of renovation as well as

     of forgiveness,

   in order to serve and enjoy thee for ever.

I come to thee in the all-prevailing name of Jesus,

   with nothing of my own to plead,

   no works, no worthiness, no promises.

I am often straying,

   often knowingly opposing thy authority,

   often abusing thy goodness;

Much of my guilt arises from my religious privileges,

   my low estimation of them,

   my failure to use them to my advantage,

But I am not careless of thy favour or regardless of

     thy glory;

Impress me deeply with a sense of thine

     omnipresence, that thou art about my path,

     my ways, my lying down, my end.