WAITING ON GOD. 389 One says, it is a nunc scans;* another, that it is a per- petual duration. He that says most only signifies what he knows of what it is not. We are of yesterday, change every moment, and are leaving our station to-morrow. God is still the same from eternity. And now I cannot conceive what I have said, but only have intimated what I adore. The whole duration of the world, from the be- ginning unto the end, takes up no space in this eternity of God : for how long soever it bath continued or may yet continue, it will all amount but to so many thou- sand years so long a time, and time hath no place in eternity. And for us who have in this matter to do with God, what is our continuance to that of the world l a moment, as it were, in comparison. When men's lives were of old prolonged beyond the continuance of em- pires or kingdoms now, yet this was the winding up of all such an one lived so many years, " and he died." Gen. 5. And what are we poor worms, whose lives are measured by inches, in comparison of their span'1 what are we before the eternal God, God always immutably subsisting in his own infinite being ? A real considera- tion of these things will subdue the soul into a condi- tion of dependence on him, and of waiting for him. 2. The immensity of his essence, and his omnipresence, should be in like manner considered. "Do' not I- fill heaven and earth'? saith the Lord." Jer. 23 : 24. " The heavens, even the heaven of heavens," the supreme and most comprehensive created thing, cannot contain him, saith Solomon. In his infinitely glorious being he is present with all places, things, times, all the works of * Now remaining; continuing as before.
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