I may
glory with thine inheritance.' Psalm 106:4, 5.

"'At that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise,
having no hope, and without God in the world; but now, in Christ
Jesus, ye who sometime were far off, are made nigh by the blood of
Christ.' Eph. 2:12, 13.

"'Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt
prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: to judge the
fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more
oppress.' Psalm 10:17.

"'Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee
these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, to prove thee, to
know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his
commandments, or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger,
and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy
fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by
bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the
Lord doth man live. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did
thy foot swell, these forty years.'

"'Thou shalt also consider in thy heart, that as a man chasteneth
his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt
keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to
fear him.' Deut. 8:2-6.

"'Thou, God, seest me.' Gen. 16:13.

"'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in
Christ; according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of
the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in
love: having predestinated us to the adoption of sons by Jesus Christ
to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise
of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the
Beloved; in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
of sins, according to the riches of his grace; wherein he hath
abounded towards us in all wisdom and prudence; having made known unto
us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he
hath purposed in himself: that in the dispensation of the fulness of
times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which
are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him, in whom also we
have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to th