" Then, even such ought to be our
feeling toward God, our worship of God. Even so should we adore Him who
alone is worthy of glory, and honour, and praise, and thanksgiving,
because He is good, and beautiful, and wise Himself, and the cause and
source of all goodness, and beauty, and wisdom, in all created beings,
and in the whole universe, past, present, and to come. Consider, I
beseech you, those glimpses of the Eternal Worship in heaven which St
John gives us in the Book of Revelation--How he saw the elders fall down
before Him who sat upon the throne, and worship Him that liveth for ever,
and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: "Thou art worthy, O
Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power; for Thou hast created all
things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created."
Consider that--Those blessed spirits of just men made perfect, confessing
that they are nothing, but that Christ is all; that they have nothing,
but that they owe all to Christ; and declaring Him worthy--not merely for
any special mercies and kindnesses to themselves, not even for that
crowning mercy of His incarnation, His death, His redemption; even that
seems to have vanished from their minds at the sight of Him as He is.
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