30 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



shall be found in their duty as by wisdom di- 

 rected ; but destruction as a judgment is pre- 

 pared for the scornful : Therefore let the pious 

 rejoice in his hope, for the end of the wicked 

 shall be an abomination. 



Lord ! when we contemplate our mortal state 

 below, and those invisible immortal powers 

 above, blest for ever to behold the glory of thy 

 majesty ; it brings us to consider the beginnings 

 of time, and to ruminate where we were when 

 the foundations of the world were laid and 

 stretch'd out ; and who but thyself (by infinite 

 power) fastened the ends thereof, and lifted up 

 the curtains of heaven's glorious canopy, and 

 caused the face of the firmament to shine ? Who 

 but thy admirable arm could separate light from 

 darkness, the sea from dry land, and confine 

 them with barrocades of rocks and sand ? Who 

 made those stormy winds to blow, and those 

 boisterous hurricanes, (the rage of the Almighty) 

 so tempestuously to roar, and roll themselves 

 on the face of the deeps ? O what hand, except 

 the Divinest, could make mortal immortal, and 

 bring salvation from the loins of Jesse ! Can the 

 shades of darkness speak the wonders of thy 

 praise, or the night discover the eye-lids of the 

 morning, that when the sun prepares his course 

 like a giant, will the clouds clap their hands, 

 and the stars and constellations shout for joy ? 



