Andrewes

1Every day will I give thanks unto Thee,

2and praise Thy Name for ever,

3and world without end;[v. 2]

4Who callest the things that are not,

5as though they were.[Rom. 4:17]i

6By whom were all things created in heaven and in earth,

7visible and invisible,[Col. 1:16]ii

8Who upholdest all things by the word of Thy power,[Heb. 1:3]iii

9Who leavest not Thyself without witness, doing good

10from heaven, giving rains and fruitful seasons, filling

11our hearts with food and gladness,[Acts 14:17]iv

12For by Thine ordinance all things continue unto this

13day, for all things serve Thee,[Ps. 119:91]v

14Who of set counsel didst Thyself fashion with Thine own hands

15man of the dust of the ground, and breathe into his nostrils

16the breath of life,[Gen. 2:7]vi

17And honour him with Thine image,[Gen. 1:26]vii

18And give Thy angels charge concerning him,[Ps. 91:11]

19And set him over the works of Thy hands,[Ps. 8:6]viii

20And place him in the Paradise of delight,[Gen. 2:15]ix

21And when he spurned Thy commandments, yet Thou didst not spurn him,

22But openedst to him a door unto repentance and life,[Acts 11:18]x

23Giving him the great and precious promise, of the saving

24Seed:[2 Pet. 1:4;Gen. 3:15]xi

25Who didst school our race,

26By that which is known of God,[Rom. 1:19]xii

27By the work of the law written in the heart,[Rom. 2:15]

28By the worship of Sacrifices,

29By the oracles of the Prophets,

30By the melody of the Psalms,

1By the prudence of the Proverbs,

2By the experience of the Histories,

3Who, when the fulness of the time was come,[Gal. 4:4]i

4didst send Thy Son,

5Who took hold of the seed of Abraham,[Heb. 2:16]ii

6Who emptied Himself,

7taking the form of a servant.[Phil. 2:7]iii

8Who was made of a woman,

9made under the law,[Gal. 4:4]

10by the offering[Eph. 5:2]iv

11of His life rendered the obedience of the law,

12by the sacrifice of His death

13took away the curse of the Law.[Gal. 3:13]v

14{ By His death redeeming, / By His resurrection quickening, } our race,[Rom. 4:25]

15Leaving nothing undone that needed to be done,[Isa. 5:4]vi

16that we might be made partakers of the divine nature.[2 Pet. 1:4]vii

17Who made manifest the savour of His knowledge,[2 Cor. 2:14]viii

18in every place by the preaching of the Gospel,

19Bearing witness to Himself

20By divers signs and mighty works,[Heb. 2:4]

21By the wondrous holiness of His life,[1 Pet. 3:2]ix

22by stupendous power,

23even unto the shedding of blood,[Heb. 11:37]x

24By the incredible conversion of the whole world

25unto the faith,[1 John 5:4]

26by the intervention of { no [worldly] authority, / no [human] persuasion, }

27Who hast made us sons of the Saints,

28and heirs of the same calling,[Heb. 9:15]xi

1Who gavest Thy Church to be a pillar[1 Tim. 3:15]i

2and ground of the truth, that the gates of hell

3might not prevail against her,[Matt. 16:18]ii

4Who gavest to our own Church, that she should keep the deposit,[1 Tim. 6:20]iii

5and teach us the way of peace,[Rom. 5:1]

6and hold fast her order, stability, and comeliness,[Col. 2:5]iv

7Who hast stablished the throne of Thy servant, our King,[2 Sam. 7:13]v

8Who makest peace in our borders, and with the flour

9of wheat fillest us,[Ps. 147:14]vi

10Thou hast made fast the bars of our gates, and

11blessest our children within us,[v. 13]

12Who hast clothed our enemies with confusion,[Ps. 132:19]

13Who hast given us to be a blessing for ever

14and ever, and makest us glad with the joy

15of Thy countenance,[Ps. 21:6]

16Who hast instructed our Princes, and

17taught our Senators wisdom,[Ps. 105:22]vii

18Who hast given us Pastors after Thine own heart,

19who feed us with knowledge and understanding,[Jer. 3:15]viii

20Who hast beaten swords into ploughshares, and

21spears into pruning-hooks,[Isa. 2:4]ix

22For there is no decay, nor leading into captivity,

23nor complaining in our streets,[Ps. 144:14]

24Who broughtest me forth into this life,

25and to the laver of regeneration and

26renewing of the Holy Ghost hast led me,[Titus 3:5]x

27And hast made known to me Thy ways,[Ps. 16:11]

28Who hast winked at my sins, that I might repent,[Wisd. 11:23]xi

29Nor hast dashed me down into the hand of mine iniquity,[Isa. 64:7]

30Waiting that Thou mightest shew mercy upon me,[Isa. 30:18]xii

1Who hast not suffered my heart to be hardened,[Rom. 2:5]i

2But hast left me the pricking of the heart,[Acts 2:37]ii

3the remembrance of the last things,[Deut. 32:29]iii

4the conscience of the sin gone before,[Heb. 10:2]iv

5Who hast opened to me a door of hope,[Hos. 2:15]v

6to me ^ᵃ confessing and ^ᵇ asking,

7out of the power of the ^ᶜ mysteries and of the ^ᵈ keys,

8^ᵃ 1 John 1:9.^ᵇ Matt. 18:32.^ᶜ John 20:23.^ᵈ Matt. 16:19.vi

9Who hast not cut off, like a weaver, my life,

10while yet I was but at the beginning of the web: nor from morning

11unto evening hast taken me away,[Isa. 38:12]vii

12Nor in the midst of my days hast called me back,[Ps. 102:24]viii

13But hast held my soul in life,

14and suffered not my feet to slip;[Ps. 66:8]

15For all these things, &c.