Traces of a faculty like memory are indeed found in the beast, formed by a repetition of sensations, but this does not ascend to the higher human faculty of forming an objective notion of sensations and feelings, and therefore the beast has no language, properly so called. Man's insignificance. It implies a degree of union and regard which may well excite our surprise. True, it is for man to inhabit, but we are not to think of him only, but of the great Builder and Maker, who is God. But this too is a fact, I am conscious of a power of choice — of moral freedom. The universal testimony of mankind, when not biassed by the desire of conforming to any paradoxical theory, would declare that we do not call a man good or bad in the same way as we should a tree, or a plant, or a dog. Physical government is an act of sovereignty, but moral control involves the consent of the life that is governed. Thus work up your souls into an astonishment at the condescension of God. (Bishop Gore. Look at proof of the mindfulness of God outside the Bible. Man can comprehend many of the mighty laws which are ever operating in the vast realms of matter and of mind. Our estimate of things must be qualitative as well as quantitative. But remember that the grandeur of our destiny is not determined and measured by our merits, but by the immensity of the Divine goodness. Presage thy future perfection and happiness, and get a foretaste of them!(G. "What is man," that God should take notice of him? HIS DIGNITY APPEARS FROM THE HOME IN WHICH HE DWELLS. THE WORKS OF GOD'S GRACE IN THE DEPTHS BELOW. Again we ask, What is man? That large knowledge of the natural world, its forces and their application, to which modern science has advanced with such splendid strides. Now all this should lead men to adore and give thanks to God for His grace and favour. Ince, M. A.The view which glorifies the dignity and value of human nature and points its aspirations forward is challenged in our time by an important school of thinkers. This visitation is no accidental feature introduced to repair the catastrophe of the fall, but an integral part of God's original design. The lower animals do not possess this sense of personality. P. Liddon, D. D.)ImmortalityClement Bailhache.The Psalm reveals not the littleness, but the greatness of man. He taught us to think of ourselves as sinners who may have a fill restoration to their high estate. How flee, how calm, how regular they are as they float in wide space — how innumerable. That is found in the sacrifice that God has made to restore man to the high place from which he has fallen. 4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? When you look at man in history there again the same sensation is borne in upon your mind. The fine life lives in the Divine and eternal life, and is unspeakably content.(C. And we may justly say of both: Lord, what is man, that Thou art mindful of him? Geology took up the tale where astronomy had left it; and man, the speck in space, becomes but as a moment in time. Even our afflictions are all for our good.II. THE METHODS IN WHICH THE DIVINE CHARACTER IS REVEALED BY THE DIVINE OPERATIONS. Nothing we see, but means our good, As our delight, or as our treasure: The whole is, either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. But there is a certain intellectual and moral vulgarity in attaching such importance to mere material magnitude.2. To say that God is unmindful of us, that we cannot add to or take from His glory, is to say that I am a better being than He is, for I do care for them that are lower down than I am. In vain, however, shall we look to these several sources of esteem to account for that regard which God has been pleased to entertain for man. But against it it is urged —(i) That God ceased creation on the seventh day. Insects on a globe of sand; the world an ant hill, and we but ants upon it." Then be absorbed in devotion, in adoration, O man, when thou contemplatest this theatre of the marvels of thy God.2. If there is nothing in the component elements of the human frame which accounts for the preeminence of man, we may at all events look for an explanation in some peculiarities of structure. Man is one who might "walk with God," as did Enoch; be the "friend of God," as was Abraham. God is revealed in relation to man as He is revealed in relation to no other of His visible creatures — the personal God of His personal creatures. P. Liddon, D. D.Religion is the maintenance of a real bond between God and the individual man. We are encompassed by laws which take no heed of the personal differences of men, of the varieties of their character, or of the vicissitudes of their condition. He did not come to destroy men's lives, but to give life. John Piper Apr 1, 2007 46 Shares Sermon. "(Archbishop Thompson. )God's care of menThomas Sherlock, D. D.When we consider the care of Providence over the children of men, whether manifested in the works of nature or of grace, we naturally fall into the reflection of the text, and wonder to see so much done for men, who seem to have no merit or desert equal thereto. We shall face our Maker. But why do we presume that the blessedness of the Most High is promoted by His development of His excellence? )The Divine regard to manDelta in, Sketches of Four Hundred Sermons.I. Thought has no magnitude. But though it can soar to heaven, it brings down no certain news. I am not sure that we do not feel our littleness more when we think of the thousand millions of living beings on the earth now, and of the thousand times a thousand millions who have mouldered into its elemental dust. Special remembrance from him? 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