2 Chronicles 6

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. VI.—How honourable is it when we perform great enterprises, not from pride, but in prosecution of our parents’ gracious purposes, and to fulfil the promise, obey the command, and honour the name, of the Lord! And while we view this temple as a figure of Christ, let us, whether Jews or Gentiles, deal with God only through him. Let us have fixed views of God’s infinite perfection, power, faithfulness, omnipresence, omniscience, and of our own meanness and vileness before him! Let us trust in, love, fear, and honour, this God of infinite excellencies. In a regard to his holiness, and heart-searching eye, let us indulge no secret pollution. And, conscious of our sinfulloess, let us make solemn prayer our first and our last resource in all our straits. Even when distress has driven us to him, he will in no wise cast us out. His unbounded forgiveness will make way for all necessary mercies to us. For, though we may not expect to be heard for the sake of our prayers, yet must we not expect to be heard without them. And thanks be to God that Gentile strangers have an open and free access to him, even to his seat. Happy is that church where all ranks, princes, ministers, and people, are under the special influence of God, as their own and their father’s God in Christ. Great is their salvation, and sweet their joy. 5 N