I am not here delineating your character, since whether you take a view of the works of the ALMIGHTY, or of His HOLY WORD, I fancy that I always see you penetrated with a sevout sense, not only of what they appear to be, but of what they really are. In beholding, therefore, the external objects of this world of nature, your pious and penetrating eye looks through them, as well as at them, and thus sees them in their transparency, alike as in their brilliancy. Your view thus passes through the surfaces of things to the contemplation of their insides, where you are at once astonished and edified at the perception of a love, a wisdom, a goodness, and a power, which, whilst it abases you under a profound sense of your own comparative nothingness, consoles you, at the same time, by the conviction, that you are the blessed and favoured child of the DIVINE AUTHOR both of your perception and of the wonders which excite it. In the works of GOD, therefore, you see (as much as mortal can see) GOD Himself; you adore His perfections; you grow wise by His wisdom; you cultivate an acquaintance with all that is truly excellent, grand, and edifying: thus you ascend, through the aid and instrumentality of the organs of external vision, to the throne of the MOST HIGH, and take your eternal seat with Him; agreeable to the Divine promise to every child of wisdom
