ing them all, is not less glorifying to his name; and if the
exercises of vowing and swearing to him are glorifying, certainly when
he commands that his name be glorified, these are not excluded. Does
the Lord claim the subjection of every capacity of man? Does he
command,--"Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the
glory of God?"[196] Does he say to his people, as well as to his
Anointed, "Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified"?
Has he appointed that the heavens should declare his glory; and that the
earth should be filled with the knowledge thereof? And when he commands
that his most gifted creatures on earth,--whom he has formed for the
purpose of displaying most widely that glory, do proclaim it, does he
not call upon them to do so in those exercises of avouching him to be
their God, and pledging themselves to his service, in which all their
spiritual capacities are most devoutly engaged, and all the institutions
of his grace by being used are most honoured? The people of God
accordingly interpret in this manner these commands. Was it said,--"Ye
that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;
and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel?" In obedience to the
requirement which the Psalmist as an instrument was employed to declare
in these terms, did he make the vow,--"My praise shall be of thee in the
great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him."[197]

Commands to worship God. Religious homage was paid with the bowing of
the head, the inclining of the body, or the bending of the knee. The
term ([Hebrew: shachoh]), employed to designate the act of one offering
worship, means literally, _to bow himself down_. The position was a
token of the intentness of the mind; and those terms that pointed that
out, came accordingly to have a spiritual application. When therefore it
is said,--"Unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear," we
are taught that the act of swearing to God should be performed, not
always in kneeling, but in that religious frame of mind which is
indicated by the bowing of the knee, but which, in some circumstances,
was also denoted by the worshipper bowing the head, or falling down in
deep prostration. And as the act of bowing before the Lord sometimes
accompanied and indicated the exercise of swearing by his name; so when
attention to his worship is urged by his authority, no part of religious
duty is uninculcated, but