1 ASSIStEID BY SENSIBLE OBJECTS. 279' sending rain, and making the sun to rise on the just and on the unjust, be so wonderful, how much more wonderful and glorious will that sun be, which must shine on none but saints and angels ! Compare also the enjoyments above, with the wonders of providence in the church and world. Would it not be an astonish- ing sight, to see the sea stand as a wall on the right hand and on the left, and the dry land appear in the midst, and the people of Israel pass safely through, and Pha- raoh and his host drowned ? or to have seen the ten plagues of Egypt ? or the rock gushing forth streams ? or manna and quails rained from heaven ? or the earth opening and swallowing up the wicked ? But we shall see far greater things than these ; not only sights more wonderful, but more delightful. There shall be no blood, nor wrath, intermingled ; nor shall we cry out, is the men ofBeth- shemesh, "Who is able tostandbefore this holy Lord God ?" How astonishing to see the sun stand still in the firmament ? Or the dial of Ahaz go back ten degrees ! But we shall see when there shall be no sun or rather shall behold for ever a sun of infinitely greater brightness. What a life should we have, if we could have drought or rain at our prayers ; or have fire from heaven to destroy our enemies, as Elijah had ; or raise the dead, as Elisha ; or miraculously cure diseases, and speak all languages, as the apostles ! Alas, these are nothing to the wonders we shall see and possess with God ; and all of them wonders of goodness and love. We shall ourselves be the subjects of more wonderful mercies than any of these. Jonah was raised but from a three days' burial in the belly of a fish; but we shall be raised from a many years rottenness and dust ; and that dust exalted to the glory of the sun and that glory perpetuated through eternity. Surely, if we observe but common providences ; as the motions of the sun ; the tides of the sea; the standing of the earth; the wa- tering it with rain, as a garden ; the keeping in order a wicked confused world : with many others, they are all admirable. But what are these to the Sion of God, the vision of the divine Majesty, and the order of the heavenly hosts ? Add to these, those particular provi-
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