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124 glory; put him to open shame; and now, you are ten-fold more the child of Satan than before. To us all she would bring home the charge, of having too often "done the things which we ought not to have done, and" of having "left undone those things which we ought to have done." But notwithstanding this, our lots are still among the living and not with the dead. So far from having any visible marks of divine vengeance upon us, we are still prisoners of hope, within the reach of mercy, having the privilege of partaking of the blessings of pardon, peace and holiness in this world, as preparatory for the enjoyment of eternal happiness in the world to come. Brethren, we all stand this day living witnesses that the Lord is slow to anger. Second. This attribute of God is no evidence of his want of ability to execute upon transgressors the sentence of his violated law, for the prophet further adds that

He is  'great in power.' Men may be