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to justify himself in showing mercy, And to triumph
all those whom he makes the monuments of it, against
those who is evil because he is good; such, mur-
derers shall be made to understand this doctrine,
that how narrow soever their souls and their prin-
ciples are, and how willing soever they are to en-
gross divine grace to themselves, and those of their
own way, their is one Lord over all, that is rich in
mercy to all that call on him, and in every nation,
Nineveh as well as in Israel, he that fears God, and
works righteousness, is accepted of him, and he that
repents and turns from his evil way shall find' mercy
with him.
Did not the fate of this prophet, typify our Savi-
or’s being cast into the raging sea of divine wrath;
lying a part of three days in tho grave ; his glori-
ous resurrection from the dead; and the publication of
his gospel to multitudes of perishing sinners that
followed.
We cannot close more fitly, perhaps than by ex-
citing a few lines from the powerful summing up
the poet Young.
What am I ? and from whence ?—I nothing know,
but what I am: and since I am, conclude
something eternal: had there e’er been nought,
nought still had been : eternal there must be.
but what eternal ?—Why not human race ?
and Adam's ancestors without an end ?
That’s hard to be conceiv’d. Yet grant it true,
hence earth and these bright orbs Eternal too?
Grant matter was eternal, still these orbs
would want some other father ; — much design
seen in all their motions, all their makes :
sign implies intelligence, and art;
That can’t be from themselves, or man ; that art
man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow !
The motion, foreign to the smallest grain,
not through vast masses of enormous weight!
