...how irifignificant are thefe, when our thoughts are directed to Him who formed the univerfe itfelf, "who spake and it was done, who commanded and it stood fast * f What comparifon, then, can be made beC 2 tween SERM. tween the emotions excited by any created...

...ancient record, or the forcible idea it conveys to the reflecting mind of his irresistible power, " who spake, and it was done ; who commanded, and it stood fast." Works of art are effected with labour and difficulty. The plan must first be contrived, then it must...

...with 'love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, faith, and temperance ; but he who spake, and it was done ; who commanded, and it stood fast ? Can you do it ? Can any man do it 1 Let him make the experiment. And to make it under the most favorable...

...everlasting, must have made all matter, and consequently the world. He was that Pre-existing Cause, *" who spake, and it was done, who commanded, and it stood fast." Considering him as the Creator of the world, as the Prime Cause of all existence, it necessarily follows,...

...elevated praise, to " Him, by the word of whose mouth the heavens, and all the host of them were made, who spake and it was done ; who commanded, and it stood fast." Or, studying the constitution of their own nature, and tracing the springs of human actions, and the...

...circumstances ! What must be the uttermost of his wrath, who made heaven and earth by the word of his power ; who spake, and it was done, who commanded, and it stood fast ! What must his wrath be, who commandeth the sun, and it rises not, and sealeth up the stars ! What...

...modern. St. John begins his gospel by saying, " in the beginning was the WORD, ami the WORD was witti God, and the WORD was God." — Even that Omnipotent...through whom, all things visible and invisible subsist, and shall be made to subserve the highest possible good of the intelligent universe. — That infinite...

...— all these derived their existence and the mode of their existence from the immediate agency of that Omnipotent Being, who " spake and it was done, who commanded, and all things stood fast." But, as God has established mechanical laws, by which the physical system of...

...creation, and to call forth all our praise and all our gratitude to the illustrious and divine Architect, who spake and it was done, who commanded, and it stood fast. The disappearance of some star?, and the sudden appearance of new ones is a phenomenon equally singular...

...At present we shall go no further. Enough has been said to impress the mind with lofty ideas of that Being who " spake and it was done, who commanded, and it stood fast." — "He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; he...