74. I know Whose ministers we are, and where
we are placed, and whither we are guides. I know the height of
God, and the weakness of man, and, on the contrary, his power.
Heaven is high, and the earth deep; Ib. xxv.
3. and who of
those who have been cast down by sin shall ascend? Ps. xxiv. 3. Who that is as yet surrounded by the
gloom here below, and by the grossness of the flesh can purely gaze
with his whole mind upon that whole mind, and amid unstable and visible
things hold intercourse with the stable and invisible? For hardly
may one of those who have been most specially purged, behold here even
an image of the Good, as men see the sun in the water. Who hath
measured the water with his hand, and the heaven with a span, and the
whole earth in a measure? Who hath weighed the mountains in
scales, and the hills in a balance? Isai. xl. 12. What is
the place of his rest? Ib. lxvi.
1. and to whom shall
he be likened? Ib. xl. 18,
25.