THE TRUE GOD.

1. THE God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob is our God; this is his name forever, and this is his memorial unto all generations. He created the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them are the workmanship of his hands. He created man in his own image, that he might have dominion over the earth, and over the beasts of the field, and over the fowls of the air, and over the fishes of the sea.

2. Man, being in the likeness of God's person, they all recognize him as their Lord, and fear him as a God. And notwithstanding his degeneracy, he has retained so much of the divine likeness, that beasts, birds, and fishes, fear him and his power is over them as a mighty one. It is diminished as he has departed from the likeness and perfections of his creator: and that spirit of rebellion, which man has received so redundantly, he has communicated to them also, that they rebel again him, as he rebels against God. Yet the fear of man is on them continually; and his dominion is over them throughout the earth.

3. God conversed with Adam as a familiar friend; and walked with Enoch, who was faithful unto him in the midst of a corrupt race: he communed with Noah, the father of a new world; and covenanted with his own oath, with Abraham the faithful.