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 volume, and reading and meditating upon a portion of its contents, in connection with prayer to the Lord, receives thus into his mind a degree of heavenly light and warmth,—and at the same time stores up and impresses distinctly on his memory certain practical truths and commandments,—and then, closing the book, goes to his daily work and duty, and there strives to bring the light, warmth, and precepts he has received and learned, into act in his intercourse with his fellow-men—whether by resisting temptations to sin that are presented from without, or by struggling against evils that are excited within, or by endeavouring to perform some use and do some good to his neighbor,—such a man truly hallows the Lord's name as it is manifested in his Word, and daily does he hallow it; he truly worships the Lord, not in thought only, not in feeling only, but in action and life; and he is and will be blessed; for "Blessed," said the Lord, "are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it." "Herein," said the Lord, "is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit." Thus, to glorify God, to hallow his name, is to hear his Word, and do it.

But now, in the third and supreme sense, to hallow the name of God, is to worship the Lord Jesus Christ, in his Divine Humanity, as the one God of heaven and earth: for, in the highest or supreme sense, by the name of God, is signified the Humanity which God assumed in the world and glorified. That this is so, may be seen from the following considerations. As