Majesty on high ? All, as David speaks, " was verity and judgmente." In like manner, if we are pardoned, and raised to a participation of his glory, " mercy and truth meet toge- ther, and righteousness and peace kiss each otherf." Every threatening denounced against sin has been executed in the person of Christ ; and every thing promised to Christ, or to us, is fulfilled, when for Christ's sake we are restored to God's favour, and made heirs of his inheritance ]
Agreeable to this character of God's works is,
II. The respect paid to them by every true Christian.
The Christian is fitly represented as one " who has pleasure in these works " —
[The generality of mankind have, alas ! no pleasure in these works, but rather put away the remembrance of them
with abhorrence — But not so the Christian: he regards
them with far different sensations. He indeed is not insensible to pleasures of other kinds, provided they be such as may be enjoyed with a good conscience towards God. He may, as a scholar and philosopher, feel delight in intellectual pursuits ; and he may, as a member of society, find pleasure in the inter- course of friendship, or the enjoyment of domestic comforts. But, though he lose not his taste for such pleasures, his delight in them is altogether subordinated to higher and more spiritual enjoyments. Whatever he once accounted gain, is now esteemed
by him comparatively as dross and dungg The wonders
of redeeming love are on earth, as they will be in heaven, his constant solace, and his song.]
By him they " are sought out" with care and dili- gence—
[With a view to a more enlarged knowledge of these works, he reads the Holy Scriptures, searching into them as for hid
treasures He attends carefully on the ministry of the
word, that he may both obtain a further insight into the Gospel, and have a richer experience of it in his soul — By con- stant meditation also, and by fervent prayer, he dives deeper and deeper into the great mysteries of godliness ; musing, as it were, day and night, and crying mightily to God, " Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law ! " Never does he imagine that he has yet attained. The more enlarged his views become, the more he sees, that he knows nothing yet as he ought to know : and he looks forward with proportionable earnestness to the eternal world, where the veil shall be taken from before his eyes, and he " will see as he is seen," and " know even as he is known."]
e ver. 7. f Ps. lxxxv. 10. S Phil. iii. 7, 8.
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