WAITING ON GOD'. 399 Thus Aaron, on the sudden death of his two eldest sons, being reminded by Moses of God's sovereignty and holiness, immediately held his peace, or quietly bumbled himself under his mighty hand. Lev. 10 : 3, 4. And David, when things were brought into extreme confusion by the rebellion of Absalom, followed by the ungodly multitude of the whole nation, relinquishes all other arguments and pleas and complaints in a resigna- tion of himself and all his concerns to the absoluteplea- sure of God. 2 Sam. 15 : 25, 26. To this in all our ex- tremities must we bring our souls before we can attain any rest or peace, or the least comfortable persuasion that we may not yet fall under greater severities in the just indignation of God against us. 2. The wisdom of God is also to be considered and submitted to. " He is wise in heart; who bath hardened himself against him, and prospered 1" Job, 9 : 4. This the prophet joins with his greatness and sovereignty. Isaiah, 40 : 12-14. " There is no searching of his under- standing." ver. 28. And the apostle closes all his con- sideration of the works of God in a holy admiration of his knowledge and wisdom, whence his judgment becomes " unsearchable, and his ways past finding out." Rom. 11 : 33, 3-1. He seeth and knoweth all things, in all their causes, effects, consequences and circumstances, in their utmost reach and tendency, in their correspondences One to another, and suitableness to his own glory, and so alone judgeth aright of all things. The wisest of men, as David speaks, walk in a shade. We see little, we know little, and that but of a very few things, and in an imper- fect manner; and of their present appearances, abstract- ed from their ends, and relations to other things. And
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