But since this is a very comprehensive duty, including in it the whole of practical religion, it may be considered under the following particulars. 1. We glorify God by confessing all the sins we have committed, and taking shame to ourselves on account of them. This is interpretatively to acknowledge the holiness of his nature, and of his law, which the apostle asserts to be ‘holy, just, and good.’g Thus Joshua advises Achan ‘to give glory to God, by making confession to him;’h and thus the penitent