2. As smoke is driven away. Easily the wind chases the
smoke; no trace is left; so, Lord, do thou to the foes of thy people. They fume
in pride, they darken the sky with their malice, they mount higher and higher
in arrogance, they defile wherever they prevail; Lord, let thy Spirit make them
to vanish forever. Philosophic skepticism is as flimsy and as foul as smoke;
may the Lord deliver his Church from the reek of it. As wax melteth beforethe fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. Wax is hard when
by itself, but put it to the fire, how soft it is. The wicked are haughty till
they come into contact with the Lord, and then they faint for fear; their
hearts melt like wax when they feel the power of his anger. Wax, also, is
utterly consumed by the flame; so shall all the boastful power of the opposers
of the Gospel be as a thing of nought. Israel saw, in the ark, God on the
mercy-seat—power in connection with propitiation—and they rejoiced in the
omnipotence of such a manifestation; this is even more clearly the confidence
of the New Testament church, for we see Jesus, the appointed atonement, clothed
with glory and majesty, and before his advance all opposition melts like snow
in the sun.
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