WAITING ON GOD. 3S3 What those means are, is known to all : mortification of sin, prayer, meditation, due attendance on all gospel- ordinances ; conferring in general about spiritual things ; advising in particular about our own state with those who, having received the tongue of the learned, are able to speak a word in season to them that a're weary. And in all these are diligence and perseverance to be exer- cised; or in vain shall men desire a delivery from their entanglements. CHAPTER XVIII. WAITING ON GOD ONLY. We have seen what is the duty intended in the pro- position, that God is the proper object of the soul's waiting in its distresses and depths. We are next to consider the reason of it : why this is the first and principal duty of souls who in their depths have it dis. *Covered unto them that there is forgiveness with God ; and the reason is, as expressed in our second observa- tion above, That the proper object of a -sin-distressed soul's waiting and expectation, is GOD 11111SSELF AS REVEALED IN CHRIST. I have, saith the Psalmist, waited for Jehovah : it is not this or that mercy or grace, this or that help or relief; but it is Jehovah himself that I wait for. And here we must show in what sense God himself is the
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