8. The sight will reveal both the justice and the mercy of God; in them
that perish the severity of God will be manifest, and in the believer’s escape
the richness of divine goodness will be apparent. Joshua and Caleb verified
this promise. The Puritan preachers during the plague of London must have been
much impressed with this verse as they came out of their hiding-places to
proclaim mercy and judgment to the dissolute age which was so sorely visited
with the pest. Let us but watch providence, and we shall find ourselves living
in a school where examples of the ultimate reward of sin are very plentiful.
One case may not be judged alone lest we misjudge, but instances of divine
visitation will be plentiful in the memory of any attentive observer of people
and things; from all these put together we may fairly draw conclusions, and we
shall soon perceive that there is after all a moral ruler over humankind, who
sooner or later rewards the ungodly with due punishment.
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