height and depth and length and breadth of his incomprehen- sible love." And let the stupendous mercy vouchsafed unto you, quicken you to every possible expression of gratitude to your adorable Benefactor.]
Ps. xc. 14. O satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days !
WE are told, on most unquestionable authority, that " godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to comea." We are further assured, that " its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace"." This was the conviction of Moses, when he penned this psalm. The vanity and bitterness of sin had been deeply felt by all that generation whom he had brought out of Egypt : and here, he declared that there was no happiness but in God : he prays, " O satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days!" Now, Brethren, longing as I do for the happiness of you all, both here and in the eternal world, I will shew,
I. Where, and where alone, true satisfaction can be found—
The whole world are inquiring, " Who will shew us any good?" And to that there is but one answer to be given ; namely this : " Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon usc!"
Satisfaction is not to be found in any earthly pursuit —
[Pleasure, how diversified soever it may be, can never satisfy a rational being. Solomon drank more deeply of that cup than any other man ; and, after all, pronounced it to be " vanity and vexation of spirit." The same may be said of wealth and honour : they can never fill the desires and capa- cities of an immortal soul. As the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing, so no man that attains the greatest eminence can be sure that he has reached the highest pinnacle of his ambition. Let him possess all that mortal man can possess, and there will be some Naboth, whose vineyard
a 1 Tim. iv. 8. b Prov. iii. 17. c Ps. iv. 6.