1 Chronicles 25

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXV.—Great cheerfulness ought to be exercised in the worship and service of God; and great attention should be paid to the praising of God, as a leading business of his saints. And it is comely when those in power concur in promoting religion; the latter in perfecting what others before had begun. Of how little account are human distinctions before God! Before him master and scholar, elder and younger, stand on an equal level. And, when we find the lot so much used in deciding in the great things of God, as an immediate appeal to himself, how sinful and profane it must be to use it in trifles, or in what merely relates to diversion! As I regard JERHOVAH’s honour, let me never dare to recreate myself with curds or dice, or cast lots in matters of small value