I reioyced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord. Psalme 122:1, (Geneva Bible)

THE GIFT OF ALL GIFTS

O Source of all good,

hat shall I render to thee for the gift of all gifts,
thine own dear Son, begotten, not created,
   my Redeemer, proxy surety, substitute,
   his self-emptying incomprehensible,
   his infinity of love beyond the heart’s grasp.
Herein is the wonder of wonders;
   he came below to raise me above,
   was born like me that I might become like him.
Herein is love;
   when I cannot rise to him he draws near on
      wings of grace,
   to raise me to himself.
Herein is power;
   when Deity and humanity were infinitely apart
   he united them in indissoluble unity,
      the uncreated and the created.
Herein is wisdom;
   when I was undone, with no will to return to him,
   and no intellect to devise recovery,
   he came, God-incarnate, to save me
      to the uttermost,
   as man to die my death,
   to shed satisfying blood on my behalf,
   to work out a perfect righteousness for me.
O God, take me in spirit to the watchful shepherds,
      and enlarge my mind;
   let me hear good tidings of great joy,
      and hearing, believe, rejoice, praise, adore,
      my conscience bathed in an ocean of repose,
      my eyes uplifted to a reconciled Father;
   place me with ox, ass, camel, goat,
      to look with them upon my redeemer’s face,
      and in him account myself delivered from sin;
   let me with Simeon clasp the newborn child
      to my heart,
   embrace him with undying faith,
   exulting that he is mine and I am his.
In him thou hast given me so much
      that heaven can give no more.

—from The Valley of Vision, Arthur Bennett, editor (Banner of Truth Trust, 2002).

Psalme 26 (Geneva Bible)
A Psalme of Dauid.

1 Ivdge me, O Lorde, for I haue walked in mine innocency: my trust hath bene also in the Lord: therefore shall I not slide.
2 Proue me, O Lorde, and trie mee: examine my reines, and mine heart.
3 For thy louing kindnesse is before mine eyes: therefore haue I walked in thy trueth.
4 I haue not hanted with vaine persons, neither kept companie with the dissemblers.
5 I haue hated the assemblie of the euill, and haue not companied with the wicked.
6 I will wash mine handes in innocencie, O Lord, and compasse thine altar,
7 That I may declare with the voyce of thankesgiuing, and set foorth all thy wonderous woorkes.
8 O Lorde, I haue loued the habitation of thine house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
9 Gather not my soule with the sinners, nor my life with the bloodie men:
10 In whose handes is wickednes, and their right hand is full of bribes.
11 But I will walke in mine innocencie: redeeme me therefore, and be mercifull vnto me.
12 My foote standeth in vprightnesse: I will praise thee, O Lord, in the Congregations.

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Grace be with you, and Peace from God our Father, and from the Lorde Jesus Christ.