...or hovered around him, like a ministering angel. In the words of the prophet, he might have said, " I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness to a land not sown." He would fain have hidden from himself her visible decline. Yet, day after day,...

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...and I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me. " Gof cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I remember the kindness of thy youth, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown....

...were bringing on themselves by it. 1 ~j\ /TOREOVER the word of the LORD came to me, srfying, 2 J.VJL Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus...me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown ; I remember thy obeditnce and subjection, when thou tuast first formed into a people, and entered...

...days of Joshua, as it has been in the Christian church. Thus God addresses the church : " I remember the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, &c." t^tiest. 7. But supposing the covenant of Abraham to be the covenant of grace, and of perpetual...

...exultation, God, it would seem, had respect, in the direction given to Jeremiah, Jeremiah ii. 2. " Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus...me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the Lord ; all that devour him shall offend ; evil shall come upon them, saith...

...and would have them- to know how pleasant and acceptable they were to him. " Thussailh the Lord, 1 remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou weiitest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the Lord,...

...! How do their minds reproach them ! They open the sacred volume, but how cutting is it to read, " Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus...me in the wilderness, in a land that .was not sown. Ah ! my people have .committed two evils : they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and...

...appears by many things said in scripture about them ; as, particularly, Jer. ii. 2, 3, « I.re-i member thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine...me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown, Israel was holiness to the Lord, and the first fruits of his increase.'* Here the generation that went...

...pillar of iron, or walls of brass, &c. II. 2 Thus saith the LORD ; I remember thee, the kindness at" thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou...me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. II. 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firsffru Its of his increase: all that devour him...