5241 DIVINE LOVE Is THE COMMANDING CA9s1ON: doth great wonders ; Ps. cxxxvi. 4. In the heavens and in the earth heBoth things unsearchable, marvellous things without ttrnn- ber; Job v. 9. The soul that loves God will recai his ancient wonders with sweet delight; Ps. lxxvii. H. and will take notice of all his marvellous ways in his present conduct of the world and the church. There is sufficient matter in God, for the pleasurable and everlasting entertainment of this holy passion : He is an im- mense ocean of glories and wonders. There is nothing in God but what would be marvellous and astonishing to us, if we had our eyes divinely enlightened, and our hearts fined with divine love. Every creature has something in it that surpasses our knowledge, and commands our admiration : But what are all these in comparison of God, the all -wise and all-mighty artiticer, who-made them all by wisdom, and the breath of his mouth ? The soul that loves God is ready to see and take notice of God in every thing: He walks through the fields, he Observes the wonders of divine workmanship in every different tree on his right-hand and on his left, in the herbs and flowers that he treads with his feet, in the rich diversity of shapes and colours and ornaments of nature : He beholds and admires his God in them all. He sees the birds in their airy flight, or perched upon the branches, and sending forth their various melody : He observes the grazing flocks, and the larger cattle in their different forms and mannersof life ; he looks down upon little insects, and takes notice of their vigorous and busy life and motions, their shining bodies, and their golden or painted wings, he beholds and he ad- mires his God in them all: In the least things of nature, he can read the greatness of God, and it is what of God lie finds in the creature that renders creatures more delightful to him. Crea- tures are but his steps to help him to rise toward God. If it were possible for our admiration, to run through and finish all the marvellous things of nature and providence, there would remain still a vast field of wonders in his word, in his law, in his gospel, in his transactions of grace with the children of men. David, that intense lover of God, was ever meditating on his statutes, his word, his testimonies : he se.:rched wondrous thingsnut of his law: Ps. cxix. 18. and ever found something in them worthy of his high esteem, and his holy joy. " O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the clay. I have seen an end of all perfection, but thy commandments are exceeding broad;" Ps. cxix. 96, 97. But above all, the riches of mercy manifested in the gospel, awaken and raise theholy soul to a sub- lime degree of astonishment. " This is the Lord's doing indeed, and it is marvellousin our eyes ;" Ps. cxviii. 23. This was the snystet I that was hid in God, and kept secret since the world began, it was concealed from ages and generations, and is
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