can it be said, with any propriety, that the tribe of Levi should STAND before the LORD; that Jonadab the son of Rechab should not want a man to STAND before the LORD for ever; that these are the two anointed ones standing before the LORD of the whole earth, &c.? Why too should mention be made of STANDING during the act of prayer, when it is well known that kneeling and prostration of the body are the general postures with which that act is attended? [see Psalm xcv. 6.; Daniel vi. 10.; Luke xxii. 41.; Acts vii. 60.; chap. ix. 40.; chap. xx. 36.; chap. xxi. 5.]. But if the mind be alluded to in the above passages, what shall we say is the state or posture of the mind which is intended to be described? Rather, what can it be, but a state or posture of fixed purpose and determination, which, when applied to man in reference to his GOD, as in the instances of the tribe of Levi, &c., in the above passages, can be nothing else but a posture of deliberate and steady intention to love and to serve his GOD? For standing, we know, as relating to the body, implies at once both fixedness and uprightness, and consequently, when it regards the mind, as it must be allowed to do in the above extracts from the Divine volume of Revelation, no other meaning can possibly be annexed to the term. You see then, my Friend, that in the language of the ALMIGHTY, which is the most
