The wonderful works of God commemorated praises bespoke for the God of heaven in…

I suppose by this time, we have generally got our Hallelujahs ready; but you call for a Catalogue of those Excellent Things, which they are to be fixed on. 'Tis a Feast that you are this Day to be treated at; and before you go out of these Doors, a Feast you shall have. I shall set before you a short Account of some Excellent Things, which I intend as a Feast for your praises; and believe me, though your praises had [and O that they may have!] no less than an Eternity to be Feeding on those matters in, they never would be glutted, never cloyed.

First, The Excellent Things done by God, in the Works of CREATION, call for our Praises. It was once the out-cry of the Psalmist, in a Rapture, Praise the Lord from the Heavens, praise the Lord from the Earth, praise the Lord all ye His Armies. Truly, 'Tis our Business to praise Him, for the Heavens, and for the Earth, and for all those Armies which He has replenished the World withal. We have a good pattern for us, in Psal 104.24, 33. says the Psalmist, O Lord, how manifold are thy Works! in wisdom hast thou made them all. Well, and what is now incumbent upon us, that have the view thereof? It follows, I will sing praise unto my God, while I have any Being. Methinks the Children of Men too much imitate the Spider, when they Look after nothing but building a little House for themselves, and concern themselves with nothing but the petty Affairs thereof. We should remember that we are Citizens of the WORLD, and as far as we can, we should visit every Corner of it, with our Praises to Him, of whom and for whom is all! I make no question, but that we do in a blessed manner Antedate Heaven, by doing so. The Praises of God are Exhibited in every part of the World, and we forfeit the privilege of Reason, if we do not put as ⟨p. 25⟩many of them as we can, into our Acknowledgements. There are above six Thousand Plants growing on that little Spot of the World, which we Tread upon; and yet a Learned Man, has more than once, found One Vegetable enough to make a Subject for a Treatise on it. What might then be said upon the Hundred and fifty Quadrupeds, the Hundred and fifty Volatils, the five and Twenty Reptiles, besides the vast multitudes of Aquatils, added unto the rich variety of Gems and Minerals, in our World? Our own Bodies are, to use the Phrase of the Psalmist, So Fearfully and Wonderfully made, that one of the Ancient Heathen at the sight thereof could not forbear breaking forth into an Hymn unto the praise of the great Creator; 'Tis impossible that any thing should be better shaped! Indeed, All the Things that we have every Day before our eyes, have a most charming prospect in them; and the very Deformities which the Flood has brought upon this Terraqueous Globe, are made Beauties, by the Disposals of the Lord that sat upon the Flood. There is not a Fly, but what may confute an Atheist.