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THE
FIRST
FR-tflTS
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THE
SFPRIT;
OR
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of death at
thy command
:
I
venture into
the regions
of
angels and unbodied
minds
at
thy summons.
I
will
be
what
thou
wilt,
I
will
go
when thou
wilt,
I
will
dwell
where thou
wilt,
for
thou
art
always with
me,
and
I
am
entirely
thine.
I
both rejoice and tremble
at
thy sove-
reignty
and dominiou over
all.
God
cannot
do injury to
a
creature
who
so
entirely
his own
property
;
God
will
not
deal unkindly with
a
creature
who
is so
sensible
of
his
just
dominion
and
supremacy, and
Which
bows
at
the
foot
of
his
sovereignty
with
so
much relish
of
satisfaction."
8.
Let
us
next
take notice
of
the perfect security
of
the nature
of
God,
his
universal
holiness,
the
rectitude
of
the
divine
nature
im
nifested
in
all
his
thoughts,
hid
works,
and
his words, all
perfectly
agreeable
to
the
eter-
nal rules of
truth
and righteousness, and
at
the
furthest
distance
from every thing
that
is
false
and
faulty, every
thing
that
is
or
can
be
dishonourable
.to so
glorious
a
being.
" Have
we
never
seen
God
in
this.light,
in
the
glöry
of
his holiness, his
universal
rectitude,
and
the ever-
lasting
harmony
of
all
his
perfections
in
exact corres-
pondence
with
all
the notions
we
can have
of truth
and
reason
?
And has
not
God
appeared
then
as
a glorious
and
lovely being
?
And
have
we
not
at
the same time
,beheld
ourselves
as unclean,
and unholy creatures,
in
one
part
or other
of
our natures ever ready
to
jar
or
fall
out
with
some
of
the most
pure
and perfect rules of honour,
justice
,or
truth
?
Have
we
not
seen all
our
sins
and
ini-
.quities
in
this light, with
utmost abhorrence and
highest
hatred' of
them,
and looked
down
upon ourselves
with
p,
.deep and overwhelming sense
of
shame and displicence
against
our depraved
and
corrupted
natures, and
abased
ourselves
as
Job
does-in
dust and
ashes,
and not daring
to
.open
our mouths
before him
?"
Job
xlii.
5,
6.
"
I
have
heard
of
thee
by
the hearing
of
the
ear,
but
now
my
eye
seeth
thee,
and
I
abhor
myself
in
dust and
ashes."
:the
least
spot or
blemish
of
sin grows highly
offensive
and
paiifál
to
the
eyes
of
a saint
in this situation.
Every little warping
from
truth
in
our
conversation,
every degree
of
insincerity or fraud
becommes'a
smarting
uneasiness
to
the mind
in
the remembrance of our past
fol-
lies
in
the
present
state.
There
is
the highest abhorrence
of
sire
among
all the
heavenly inhabitants,
and
this sight
of
God
in
the
beauties
of
his holiness,
gild
his
perfect
rec:-