The Love of God. 131

Yet juft fo are you under the particular care
and watchful concern of Almighty God !

But now, fay you, you begin to feel the diffi-
culty of believing it poffible that the great God of
the Univerfe takes this tender intereft in fuch in-
fignificant and finful creatures as men and women.

Confider, then, that we are told that * God is
Love ;” and if He loves us, there is no difficulty
in believing that He feels all this intereft in us.
Do not judge Him by earthly Kings and Poten-
tates. ‘Thefe are Giants who cannot fee carraway
feeds. We do not blame them, for it is impof-
fible they fhould be interefted for every body.
But very very different is both the power and the
feeling of the King of Kings !

Still we have not got over the difficulty yet, for
of all the wonderful truths we are commanded to
believe, no one is fo wonderful and fo incompre-
henfible as the Love of God to the finful human
race.

And yet it is a truth, and of all truths the moft
important and moft comfortable ; and therefore it
' is much to be defired that we fhould thoroughly
believe it: and J think I can make you underftand
that it is poffible, by fomething which you feel in
your own hearts. I think God has placed even in
our own hearts a witnefs of the poffibility of this
great Truth.

My idea is this. We snow that God has been

merciful to us—(His very creation of man was an