THANKSGIVING SERMON. 27 out iniquity, just and right is he? Every true patriot desires nothing but what is right for his country. If he adopts the prayer of the Psalmist against his enemies, “Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against thee,” it is because their appeal is founded on the divine righteousness. Under the righteous government of the Most High, wicked men and wicked nations may expect to be overtaken by the divine judgments, and in their bold and impious wickedness to be caught in their own snare. He will plead his own cause. As the Judge of the earth, he will “lift up himself and render a reward to the proud.” They are no local or partial interests that he looks upon, but the great interests of the Church and the world. His loving-kindness, his judgment, and his righteousness stand firm; they stand upright and abreast, and, through the redemption of his Son, in undisturbed harmony and in unsullied beauty. We wonder most at his loving-kindness; yet we may not be disappointed if even justice is meted out to the nations of the earth, and so
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