they must be swept from the face thereof.

PROVIDENCE OF GOD.

We should tremblingly glory and rejoice when we see God in the
world, though upon those that are the most terrible of his
dispensations. God the Creator will sometimes mount himself and ride
through the earth, in such majesty and glory that he will make all
to stand in the tent-doors to behold him. O how he rode in his
chariots of salvation, when he went to save his people out of the
land of Egypt. How he shook the nations. Then his glory covered the
heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. His brightness was as
the light: he had horns coming out of his hand, and there was the
hiding of his power.

These are glorious things, though shaking dispensations God is
worthy to be seen in his dispensations as well as in his word,
though the nations tremble at his presence. "O that thou wouldest
rend the heavens, that thou wouldest comedown," saith the prophet,
"that the mountains might flow down at thy presence."

"We know God, and he is our God, our own God; of whom or of what
should we be afraid? When God roars out of Zion, and utters his
voice from Jerusalem, when the heavens and the earth do shake, the
Lord shall be the hope of his people and the strength of the
children of Israel."

He that knows the sea, knows the waves will toss themselves; he that
knows a lion, will not much wonder to see his paw or to hear the
voice of his roaring. And shall we that know our God, be stricken