SERMON XLIII WORSHIP O come let us worship and fall down before him : for he is the Lord our GOD. IN -PSALM XCV. 6, 7. N this psalm we find holy David taken up with the pious contemplation of GOD's infinite power, majesty, and greatness:he considers him as the sovereign Lord of the whole earth, the maker and supporter of all things;-that by him the heavens were created, and all the host of them; that the earth was wisely fashioned by his hands ;--he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods :- that we likewise, the people of his pasture, were raised up by the same creating hand, from nothing, to the dignity of rational creatures, made, with respect to our reason and understanding, after his own most perfect image. It was natural to imagine that such a contemplation would light up a flame of devotion in any grateful man's breast; and accordingly we find it break forth in the words of the text, in a kind of religious rapture: O come let us worship and fall down before him: for he is the Lord our GOD. Sure never exhortation to prayer and worship can be better enforced than upon this principle, that GOD is the cause and creator of all things; - that each individual being is upheld in the station it was first placed, by the same hand which first formed it;- that all the blessings and advantages, which are necessary to the happiness and welfare of beings on earth, are only to be derived from the same fountain;- and that the only way to do it, is to secure an interest in his favour, by a grateful expression of our sense for the benefits we have received, and a humble dependence upon him for those we expect and stand in want of. Whom have we in heaven, says the Psalmist, but thee, O GOD, to look unto or depend upon; to whom shall we pour out our complaints, and speak of all our wants and necessities, but to thy goodness, which is ever willing to confer upon us whatever becomes us to ask, and thee to grant ; because thou hast promised to be nigh unto all that call upon thee, yea, unto all such as call |