I may venture to say that no finite wisdom could suggest words more suited to the feelings or neces- sities of a penitent, than these.
Take, next, a person full of faith and of the Holy Ghost ; and if he were the devoutest of all the human race, he could never find words, wherein to give scope to all the exercises of his mind, more suitable than in the Te Deum : " We praise thee, O God : we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee all Angels cry aloud, the Heavens, and all the Powers therein : To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth ; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory." — Hear him also at the table of the Lord : " It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God : Therefore with Angels and Arch- angels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory : Glory be to thee, O Lord most High."
Even where there are no particular exercises of the mind, the Liturgy is calculated to produce the greatest possible good : for the gravity and sobriety of the whole service are fitted to impress the most careless sinner; whilst the various portions of Scrip- ture that are read out of the Old and New Testament, not only for the Lessons of the day, but from the Psalms also, and from the Epistles and Gospels, are well adapted to arrest the attention of the thought- less, and to convey instruction to the most ignorant. Indeed I consider it as one of the highest excellen- cies of our Liturgy, that it is calculated to make us wise, intelligent, and sober Christians : it marks a golden mean ; it affects and inspires a meek, humble, modest, sober piety, equally remote from the unmean- ing coldness of a formalist, the self-importance of a systematic dogmatist, and the unhallowed fervour of a