Chap. 15.j BY SENSIBLE OBJECTS. the sun ! But all this is nothing to the glory of heaven. Yonder sun must there be laid aside as useless. Yonder sun is but darkness to the lustre of my Father's house. I shall myself be as glorious as that sun. This whole earth is but my Father's footstool. This thunder is nothing to his dread- ful voice. These winds are nothing to the breath of his mouth. If the ' sending rain, and making the sun to rise on thejust 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 enjoy- ments above with the wonders of Providence in the church and the world. Would it not be an astonishing 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 Pharaoh 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, as " the men of Beth-shemesh, Who is able to stand before 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 Sunof infinitelygreater bright- ness. 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 miraculouslycure 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 themwonders of good- ness 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 many years' rottenness and dust ; and that dust exalted to the glory of the sun ; and that glory perpe- tuated 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 watering 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
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