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of the main instruments by which God acts 

 upon our globe, both in dispensing blessings 

 and curses, and without which our life could 

 not be sustained a moment, is evidently a 

 cherub, or ruling physical power, of the same 

 rank with heat and light. 



The statement I have here given of the 

 physical cherubim, is singularly confirmed 

 in Ezekiel's vision. / looked, says he, and 

 behold a whirlwind came out of the north, 

 a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and 

 a brightness was about it. 1 Here we see the 

 appearance of the symbolical animals was 

 preceded by that of the physical agents they 

 symbolized the wind, the cloud, the fire, 

 and the light. The reason why the clouds 

 are particularly signalized as God's chariots, 

 appears to be because they are instinct with 

 all those principles by which God acts upon 

 the earth ; and therefore they are described 

 as carrying him, since they are the instru- 

 ments by which his will has full accomplish- 

 ment. 



It is singular, and worthy of particular 

 notice, that God is also said to dwell in dark- 



1 Ezek. i. 4. 



