The Order of Religious Worship. God's jus tice pro claimed. SING. CHANT: ANTHEM or HYMN. BIBLICAL READINGS. THE THIRTY-EIGHTH SERVICE. Subject: THE JUSTICE OF GOD. Minister. He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for Deut. all His ways are judgment: a God of xxxii. 4 truth and without iniquity, just and right is He. Job 23. Touching the Almighty, we cannot find xxxvii. Him out: He is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: He will not afflict. Ps. lxxxix. be 14. Justice and judgment are the habitation And there is no God else beside Me: a just Is. xlv. 21. THE JUSTICE OF GOD. 181 x. 17. God is no For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Duet. respecter of Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a persons. terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. God is just in His providen tial dealings. God's Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. But in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of Him. Acts x. 34, 35. But he that doeth wrong shall receive for Col. iii. the wrong which he hath done: and there is no repect of persons. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding far be it from God, that He should do wickedness; and from the Almighty that He should commit iniquity. Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. 25. Gen. xviii. 25 Job xxxiv. 10, 11. Eph. vi. 8. 30. For we know Him that hath said, Venge- Heb. x. ance belongeth unto Me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge His people. SING. CHANT: Anthem or Hymn. For God shall bring every work into judg equity will ment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. be mani fested in the last judgement Acts Because He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteous- xvii.31. ness by that man whom He hath ordained. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, John v. in the which all that are in the graves shall 28, 29. hear His voice, and shall come forth: they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. His justice is displayed in the punishment of the wicked. Justice in and Riches profit not in the day of wrath. When the wicked spring as the grass, when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever. I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed the reward in the earth. We must repose in the justice of God. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward His name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power; When He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. MINISTER AND CONGREGATION. DEVOUT ASPIRATIONS. Prov. xi. 4. Ps.xcii. 7. Ps. xxxvii. 35, 36, 38. Prov. xi. 31. Heb. vi. 10. 2 Thess i. 7-10. Great and mavellous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of saints. Rev. xv. 3. Also unto Thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for Thou renderest to every man according to his work. Ps. lxii. 12. Thy right THE JUSTICE OF GOD. 183 eousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto Thee? Ps. lxxi. 19. Righteous art Thou, O Lord, when I plead with Thee: yet let me talk with Thee of Thy judgments. Jer. xii. 1. Great in counsel, and mighty in work for Thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Jer. xxxii. 19. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for Thou hast done right, but we have done wickely. Neh. ix. 33. Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight: that Thou mightest be justified when Thou speakest, and be clear when Thou judgest. Ps. li. 4. Then hear Thou in heaven, and do, and judge Thy servants, comdemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteouness. 1. Kings. viii. 32. O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew Thyself. Lift up Thyself, Thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. Ps. xciv. 1, 2. And enter not into judgment with Thy servant: for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified. cxliii. 2. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy for Thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Ps. lxvii. 4 THE LORD'S PRAYER. Minister. DOXOLOGY. 1 Peter v. 10, 11. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. То Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. CONGREGATION. Amen. SING HYMN. SCRIPTURE LESSON. EXTEMPORANEOUS PRAYER. Sing Hymn. Sing Hymn. Concluding Prayer. Benediction. The Order of Religions Worship. SING. CHANT: ANTHEM or HYMN. BIBLICAL READINGS. THE THIRTY-NINTH SERVICE. Subject: THE TRUTH AND FAITHFULNESS OF GOD. Minister. God is true and faithful. And I saw heaven opened, and behold a Rev. xix. 11. upon him was These things saith He that is Holy, He that is true, He that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth. Rev. iii. 7. The Lord is the true God, He is the living Jer. x. God, and an everlasting king. 10. Duet. Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God, the faithful God, which keepeth vii. 9. covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. |