...Hitherto, my brethren, we have looked only at the dark side of our .subject. We have been visiting " the land of darkness and the shadow of death ; a land...without any order, and where the light is as darkness."* Let ui now, by faith, take our stati'.n on the top of Pisgah. Here a bright prospect opens. From this...

...should have been as though I had not been ; 1 should have been carried from the womb to the grave. 20 em of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots : 2 And the spirit of the Lo RD CuTs wisdom unsearclialile. 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness,...

...grave.] Or that 1 had died as soon as I was born, and been carried from the womb to the grave ; Ver. 2O. Are not my days few ? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little :~\ To which I am now very near. May I beg, therefore, but this one favour, that since thou wilt not...

...and disorder. It is not unlike that description which Job gives of the grave ; ' A land of darkness and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.' When Solomon set himself to search out the causes of all the vanity and vexation that is in the world,...

...is his language, and what heavy darkness hangs upon his, hope ! See his expression, Job x. 21, 22. " Let me alone that I may take comfort a little, before...without any order, and where the light is as darkness." Mark how this good man heaps one darkness upon another, and makes so formidable a gloom as was hardly...

...counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength; free among the dead." " I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of...without any order, and where the light is as darkness," Job x. 21, 22. Now, I will not pretend to affirm that all the elect of God are exercised with the bondage...

...in the enjoyment of perfect day, or in the realms of ineffable light, but the reverse of all this: "Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone,...to the land of darkness, and the shadow of death; aland of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the...

...seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the lime of drought. Are not my daysfes ? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort...shall not return; even to the land of darkness, and shadow of death ! Let me add, that the excellent lady is informed, by a letter from Mrs. Norton, that...

...this,' said he, ' drives me almost to despair.' And he breathed out another dying speech; " I [shall] go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness, and the shadow of death." Shepherd. This is always the case, if the children of Zion go over to the old mount; it genders to...

...swifter than a pos(, they flee away, they see no good. Are not my days few ? Cease then, and let me take comfort a little, before I go whence I shall...without any order, and where the light is as darkness.' These refleetions teach us to make a proper use of time. As Ihe living know that they must die, they...