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====Meditation CX.====

'''UNDER THE MERIDIAN, THE SUN AND MOON HIGH.'''

April 19, 1761.

When the starry heavens engaged my attention in the northern climates, many of their bright inhabitants, and the moon herself, seemed low to me; but here, under the meridian, not only the sun but the moon in her proper hour possesses the summit of the sky, and the bright beauties which seemed to be in some low station, partake in the same exaltation. Now, is not this a lively picture of that happy and triumphant state that the church shall be exalted to at last? Christ has ascended up on high, not for himself (for as God he is over all blessed forever) but as our representative, and in our name, that where he is, there we may be also. 

And as his Father has a seat on his throne for his beloved Son, so has the Son promised that those who overcome shall sit with him in his throne. Yes, every saint shall partake of his Redeemer's glory, for if we suffer with him, we shall also reign with him; and if we confess him, before an abandoned world, he will also confess us before assembled men and angels.

Then, although the moon suffer an eclipse, it is not to be thought that the planet is destroyed, for she shall yet reflect many a bright beam, and, to some parts of the world, run in an elevated orbit; so it is with saints in particular, and the church in general, they may be both low and little in the account of carnal men—but they are not the less noble in themselves, nor of smaller account with God. 

The certainty of this exalted state may well support us under the deepest abasements; for because he lives, we shall live also, and every member shall rejoice with his glorified Head. What though the saints now suffer under diversified trials, like the inhabitants of the frozen north, who have only a peep of day through the whole winter—but are harassed with a burst of tempests, or a covering of snow, or a field of ice; since they may look a little forward, and see themselves placed in these happy regions where their divine Sun sheds eternal noon, and makes them shine forth as stars in the kingdom of their Father!


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