2 Chronicles 34

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXXIV.—Happy are they whom God by his grace effectually calls in the days of their youth! and indeed there are but few aged conversions. Happy is the nation whose sovereign sets before them the best example; zealously purges his dominion from temptations to destructive impieties; reforms the church in his station; trembles at the words of the God of Israel; and, under the apprehensions of his denounced wrath, humbles himself; and labours to have all his subjects taught divine truths, fixed in them, and preserved from wickedness. And it is pleasant, after great prevailing impiety, to behold kings, ministers, and people, harmoniously and heartily zealous for the instituted purity of God’s worship, and solemnly devoting themselves, upon a New-covenant footing, to his service