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 greatest delight in doing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly before the Lord. It is a faith which places the Lord as a model for imitation, fearing to do evil, but rejoicing in the truth; and so conducting itself, that whatever is opposed to the spirit and temper of Christ is avoided, and that alone loved which is in harmony with his Spirit.

MONG the innumerable proofs that the divine providence superintends all, and extends his care to every single thing, the sacred Scriptures may be cited as bearing the most undoubted evidence. How much misunderstanding would be removed were men to consider that they, being finite, and God infinite, His Word cannot at all times be understood at first reading; that our duty is patiently to study it, before we assign qualities to it, or fix upon it arbitrary comparisons which it will not bear. Yet even in this work of man, the providence of the Lord is seen visible, and words with which men have sought to improve, or as they imagined, to throw a greater or clearer light upon the text, are printed in a different type, to shew that they are not to be found in the original. This is the case with the word white in the present passage. Snow has many qualities beside colour, it is light and fleecy; it is very susceptible to heat, and thus is easily melted. It possesses an