WAITING ON GOD. 391 with the manner of it, this he affirms to be the revela- tion that by voice was made to him : " Shall mortal man be more just than GodI shall a man be more pure than his Maker I Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly. How much less in them that dwell in houses- of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!" Job, 4 : 12-19. If the saints and angels in heaven do not answer this infinite holiness of God in their most perfect condition, is it meet for worms of the earth to suppose that any thing which proceeds from him is not absolutely holy and perfect, and so best for them 1 This is the fiery property of the nature of God, whence he is called a consuming fire, and everlast- ing burnings: and the law, on which he hath impressed some representation of it, is called a fiery law, as that which will consume and burn up whatever is perverse and evil. Hence the prophet, who had a representation of the glory of God in a vision, and heard the seraphim proclaiming his holiness, cried out, " Wo is me ! for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips." Isaiah, 6 : 5. He thought it impossible that he should bear that near approach of the holiness of God. And with the remembrance of this Joshua stilled the people with the terror of the Lord. Joshua, 24 : 19. Let such souls, then, as are under troubles and perplexities on any ac- count, endeavor to exercise their thoughts about this infinite purity.and holiness of God ; theywill quickly find it their wisdom to become as weaned children be- fore him, and content themselves with what he shall guide them to, which is to wait for him. This fiery holiness streams from his throne, Dan. 7 : 10, and
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