A Method for Prayer01 Matthew Henry (continued)
9. AT THE ENTRANCE UPON THE PUBLIC WORSHIP ON THE LORD'S DAY BY THE MASTERS OF THE ASSEMBLIES Thou (O God) are greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about you. O give us grace to worship you with reverence and godly fear, because you our
God are a consuming fire. Psalm 89:7. Hebrews 12:28, 29.
This is that which you have said that you will be sanctified in them which come nigh unto you, and before all the people you will be glorified. You are the Lord that sanctifies us, sanctify us by your truth, that we may sanctify you in our hearts, and make you our fear and our dread. Leviticus 10:3. Ezekiel20:12.John 17:17. Isaiah 8:13.
We come together to give glory to the great Jehovah, who in six days made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day, and therefore blessed a sabbath day, and hallowed it. And our help stands in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Exodus 20:11. Psalm 124 (v. 8).
O let us be new creatures, your workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works; And let that God who on the first day of the world commanded the light to shine out of darkness, on this first day of the week shine into our hearts, to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2
Corinthians 5:17. Ephesians 2:10. 2 Corinthians 4:6.
We come together to give glory to the Lord Jesus Christ, and to sanctify this sabbath to his honor, who was the stone that the builders refused, but is now become the head stone of the corner.