ressive, and so suited to all our varied wants, as is
here. And may I not say that no facts and declarations and appeals could
be more fitted to rouse the conscience, and to regulate the life, than
those we here find. Alas! however, with what affecting appropriateness
may the Almighty say of Englishmen as of Israelites--of persons living
eighteen centuries after Christ's death, as of those living eight
centuries before it--"They consider not in their hearts that I remember
all their wickedness."

This passage brings before us two parties. One is the speaker, the other
the persons addressed. It states a fact respecting each. Let us look at
these facts:--

I. "I remember," says Jehovah, "all their wickedness." What an idea
does this statement furnish of the unlimited vastness of the Divine mind!
For if He remembered all the evil deeds of all the Israelites, He
remembered the evil deeds of all other persons. If He remembered all the
evil deeds of all then living, He remembered all the evil deeds of all
who ever had lived. And if He remembered all evil deeds, assuredly He
remembered all good ones. The Scriptures declare this fact for the
comfort of the righteous. What a cheering declaration to a good man is
that found in Hebrews vi. 10, "For God is not unrighteous to forget your
work and labour of love, which ye have showed toward His name, in that ye
have ministered to the saints, and do minister." What a vast number of
incidents are included in the space of but one year in the history of
each one of us! What a still vaster number in the whole period of life!
And when we think of the ten hundred millions of mankind now peopling our
globe; when we add to these the almost countless millions that have
departed, and realize the fact that every incident of every individual of
them is remembered--remembered as distinctly too as if one solitary
incident were all that memory was charged with, what an idea is given us
of the vastness of the Divine mind! What can we do but wonder and adore!

My text says much, but like many others, it means more than it says. How
much of what Scripture intends to teach us shall we fail to learn, if we
do not consider what is included and involved, as well as what is
affirmed! This declaration imports three things. It imports--

1. That God observes all our wickedness. To remember a thing implies
knowledge of it. This knowledge the Scriptures frequently declare the
Divine Being