UPON THE SIGHT OF THE HEAVENS MOVING. I CAN see nothing stand still but the earth; all other things are in motion: even that water which makes up one globe with the earth, is ever stirring in ebbs and flowings; the clouds over my head, the heavens above the clouds, these, as they are most conspicuous, so are they the greatest patterns of perpetual action; what should we rather imitate than this glorious frame? O God, when we pray that thy will may be done in earth, as it is in heaven, though we mean chiefly the inhabitants of that place, yet we do not TRACT MAG., THIRD SERIES, NO. 73. JAN. 1840. B |