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secures thee
on
every side.
If
thou
hast
the evidences
of
his
children
on
thee, thou possessest
an eternal
se-
curity
of
thy
peace."
7.
The
sovereignty
and
dominion
of
the
blessed
God,
is
a
further
meditation and pleasure
which becomes
and
adorns
the
inhabitants of
the heavenly world. There. he
reigns upon
the
throne,of
his
glory,
and the
greater
part
of
the
territories
which
are subject
to
him,
are
less
in
bur
view
than
our
scanty powers
of nature
or percep-
tion caü
now
apprehend,
and
a proportionable
degree
of
pleasure
is
found with the saints above
in
these contem-
plations. But
in
our present
state
óf
mortality
our
souls
can
only
look
through
these lattices'
of
flesh
and blood,
and make
a
few
scanty and
imperfect
inferences from
what
they always
see,
and
hear,
and
feel
;
and
yet.,
the
glorious sovereignty
and
dominion
of
the
blessed
,God,
may
so
penetrate
the soul with
a
divine sense
of it here
on earth,
a*
to
raise up a heaven
of
wonder
and
joy
within.
Adore
him,
O
my
soul,
who surveys
and rules
all
things
which
he has
made with an absolute authority,
and
is
for ever
uncontroulable.
How righteous
a
thing
is
it
that
he
should
give laws
to all the beings
which
his
hand
bath formed,
which
his
breath hath
spoken
into
life,
and especially
that rank
which
his
favour hath fur
-
nished
with
immortality
?
How
just
that
he
should
be
obeyed
by
every
creature without
the least
reluctance or
reserve,
without a moment's
delay,
and
that
to all
the
length
of
their
existence.
"
Submit to
his
government
with pleasure; O my
nature, and
be,
all
ye
my
powers
of
soul
and
body,
in everlasting readiness
to do
whatsoever
he
,requires,
and
to
be
whatsoever he appoints.
Wilt
thou have
me, 'O -Lord,
lie
under
sickness
or
pain, wilt thou have
me
languish
under
weakness
and confinement?
I
am
at
thy foot,
I
am for
ever
at
thy disposal.
Wilt thou
have
me
active
and
vigorous in
thy
service
?
Lord;
I
am
ready
with the
utmost chearfulness.
Wilt
thou
confine
me
to
painful idleness and long patience
?Lord,
here
I
am, do
with
me
what seemeth
good
unto
thee.
I
am
ready to
serve thy
purposes here, or thy orders
in
the
unknown
world
of
spirits, when
thou
shalt
dissolve
this
mortal frame
;
I
lay down
these
limbs
¡n
the
dust