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Rh, both in heart and life, Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory; in other words, Thine is the all of love and of wisdom, of goodness and of truth, both in heaven and the church. For the soul of man is glorified, in proportion as it gives glory to God; and it gives glory to God in proportion as it acknowledges in heart and life that every good and perfect gift is from God, or from the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. By this glorification, therefore, is effected a return to God of all that the soul has received, and receives from Him, whereby is effected a free and full circulation of divine and heavenly life from God to man, and back again from man to God, which is the great end of man’s creation, redemption, and regeneration, the grand design of the Revelation of God, and the important ground and reason of every act of prayer and praise, and also of every act of obedience to the divine precepts of love, purity, and charity. (Matt. vi. 9–13.)

153. It is written in Psalm lxxiii. 9, concerning the wicked, They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth; where to set their mouth against the heavens, means to oppose, in heart and life, all the interior things of heavenly love and wisdom; whilst, their tongue walking through the earth, denotes that their thoughts are employed merely about such external things as regard themselves and the world.

154. The Lord saith to Peter, after washing his feet, What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter, (John xiii. 7,) to instruct us, that in