2. As from a watchtower, the Lord is
represented as gazing intently upon men. He will not punish blindly, nor like a
tyrant command an indiscriminate massacre because a rumor of rebellion has come
up to his ears. The objects of the Lord’s search are not wealthy men, great
men, or learned men; these, with all they can offer, cannot meet the demands of
the great Governor. At the same time, he is not looking for superlative
eminence in virtue; he seeks for any that understand themselves, their
destiny, their happiness; he looks for any that seek God, who, if there
be a God, are willing and anxious to find him out. Surely this is not too great
a matter to expect; for if men have not yet known God, if they have any fight
understanding, they will seek him. Alas, even this low degree of good is not to
be found even by him who sees all things; but men love the hideous negation of
“no God,” and with
their backs to their Creator, who is the sun of their life, they journey into
the dreary region of unbelief and alienation, which is a land of darkness, and
of the shadow of death without any order and where the light is as darkness.
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