WAITING ON GOL'. 303 attentively, and learn to tremble before him. These are not things that are foreign to us. This God is our God. The same throne of his greatness and majesty is still established in the heavens. Let us, then, in the hastes and heats to which our spirits in any condition are prone, present ourselves before this throne of God, and then consider what will be best for us to say or do; what frame of heart and spirit will become us, and be safest for us. All this glory encompasses us every mo- ment, though we perceive it not. And it will be buta few days before all the veils and shades that are about us shall be taken away and depart. And then shall all this glory appear to us, to our endless bliss or everlast- ing wo. Let us therefore know, that nothing in our dealings with him doth better become us, than silently to wait for him, and for what he will speak to us in our depths and straits. 5. It is good to consider the illustralions God has given of his infinite greatness, power, majesty and glory. Such was his mighty work of creating all things out of nothing. We dwell on molehills in the earth, and yet we knowbut the least part of the excellency of that spot of ground which is given us for our habitation here below. But what is it to the whole habitable world, and the fulness thereof! And what an amazing thing is its greatness, with the wide and large sea, and all sorts of creatures therein ! The least of these hath a beauty, a glory, an excellency, that the utmost of our inquiries end in admiring. And all this ig but the earth, the lower depressed part of the creation. What shall we say con- cerning the heavens over us, and all those creatuiés of light that have their habitation in them Who can con- 17
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