For by this one name we are made to understand that all
our mercies are the offspring of God, and that we also who are
called are his children by adoption.
FAITHFULNESS OF GOD.
Faithfulness in him that rules is that which makes Zion rejoice,
because thereby the promises yield milk and honey. For now the
faithful God, that keepeth covenant, performs to his church that
which he told her he would. Wherefore our rivers shall run and our
brooks yield honey and butter. Job 20:17.
Let this teach all God's people to expect, to look, and wait for
good things from the throne. But O, methinks this throne out of
which good comes like a river, who but would be a subject to it? who
but would worship before it?
PRESENCE OF GOD.
God's presence is renewing, transforming, seasoning, sanctifying,
commanding, sweetening, and lightening to the soul. Nothing like it
in all the world: his presence supplies all wants, heals all
maladies, saves from all dangers, is life in death, heaven in hell,
all in all.
GOD'S REPENTING.
"And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth."
Repentance in us is a change of the mind, but in God a change of his
dispensations; for otherwise he repenteth not, neither can he,
because it standeth not with the perfection of his nature.
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